Anyone who loves playing with deck of cards knows solitaire. And no matter how advanced the technology is, it will always be played. That is why I’m thrilled to see BVS Solitaire Collection by BVS Development as our May 2018 cool app winner. It is an award-winning multi-featured collection of solitaire card games that includes over 510 variations.
It features both old-time favorites (like…
Author: Landerson Gomes
In this post I discuss how to customize the URLs generated by the Datasnap REST server.
Challenge
A major challenge in building APIs when using Datasnap is to generate URLs so that documentation, understanding, and versioning is easy.
I’ve…
Author: Landerson Gomes
In this post an example of native Delphi component access to Google Firebase Cloud Firestore. Check out the video and download the sample sources.
Check out the original post at (in portuguese):
Acessando Google Firebase Cloud…
FireMonkey is an advanced UI toolkit, capable of great layouts and designs. We’d like to show you what it’s capable of, and how easy it is to make great interfaces using it. We’ve just introduced eighteenexample UI templates using FireMonkey and C++ that really showhow easy it is tocreate great-looking apps.
These are freely availableon GetIt, our package…
Author: Rebekah D
There is an interesting post on Medium aiming to inspire students why to learn C++. Its main point is that learning C++ teaches fundamental computer science concepts: memory management, compile-time vs run-time, polymorphism implementation, iterators…
Author: Rebekah D
There is an interesting post on Medium aiming to inspire students why to learn C++. Its main point is that learning C++ teaches fundamental computer science concepts: memory management, compile-time vs run-time, polymorphism implementation, iterators and…
Last week, we ran a popular webinar Fast Builds and Integrating Libraries: Using CMake and Ninja for C++ Builder 10.2.3. The replay is now available on Youtube.
In it, I demonstrated twoitems building with C++Builder and our CMake support: a real-world FireMonkey application, and Google Test. These are available on github:
Mazes:I wrote this for CodeRageXII in…
While most of the Delphi conferences in Europe happen in the fall (September and October are generally fairly crowded months), there are also a few regular events in the late spring timeframe.
Delphi Day, Italy, June 7th
The Delphi Day in Italy is a conference I helped…
Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building…
Author: Craig Chapman
My regular readers may be aware that over the past two or three months, I’ve been working on building a new video game engine for Delphi. I’ve also had many other demands on my time, which has meant that I’ve not posted in a while. Today however, I got to the point in the game development project that I’m able to release another of it’s sub-components as an open…
