Last week a (large) customer sent me an email indicating he was experiencing issues when compiling the same project on different machines. Turned out the difference was in the source code files format and the root cause was a unit saved as UTF-8but without a BOM. The reason? One of the developers is using Visual Studio Code… and the solution is a chancing that or using compiler flag.
Welcome back!Last time, we discussed a typical UX design flow, and how to tackle this if you do not have access to a UX designer. We also looked at some key usability principles, and saw an example ‘bad’ user interface that we will improve step by step through this…
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How can you be sure you’ve applied the latest updates for your RAD Studio, Delphi, or C++Builder version? After installing the IDE, there may be updates that were released since the last product installer.
Patches for Version 10.2.3
You can find…
GetIt is the package manager built into RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. It includes 214 packages in8 different categories.
38 Library packages
121 Component packages
53 Internet of Things components
60 Trials
4 Industry Templates
2 IDE Plugins
3 Styles
26 Sample projects
New and updated packages get added to GetIt all the time. Here are a few of the recent changes and the most popular…
Delphi User Group Meeting, London
A couple of weeks ago I was in London for personal reasonsand teamed up with the UK Developers Groupto attend their monthly meeting and talk about Delphi. I offered an introductory talk, some in depth on RAD Server compared to…
How do you design a user interface (UI) to be understandable and easy to interact with? In this series, I’ll give some thoughts on good design, combined with examples.
This series is intended as practical UI design advice for small teams or individual developers. Many…
Blogs on Embarcadero Community: Multi Tier Development and Enterprise SKU
September 25, 2018
I haven’t blogged much here in September, because Iwrote two blogposts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts — I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):
Build Flexible and Robust Apps with a Multi-Tier Architecture…
The Market Today
To stay relevant, be successful and reach users, mobile app developers need to develop multi-device apps.
Looking at the latest mobile OS market share stats, iOS and Android is split down the middle in the US, with iOS being prevalent in Japan and Android in…
Everyone knows Delphi is the best Rapid Application Development tool. Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio set the standard that everyone else is still trying to follow. Nothing will get you to market quicker with a great native experience for your users.
Delphi is also a top…
Earlier this week, Apple released the new version of iOS, iOS 12. We’ve been testing iOS 12 with 10.2 Tokyo Release 3 and the 10.3 Carnival Beta.
What we support with RAD Studio 10.2.3 today:
Building applications that can run on iOS 12 devices using the iOS 11 SDK and Xcode 9.x The new SDK and Xcode versions are not supported at this time.
What we plan to support for the new iOS 12 with RAD…
