As you can read in details at https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/2018-spirit-of-delphi-award-winner at the last CodeRage conference Embarcadero resumed the old tradition of giving recognition to an active member of the Delphi developers community, picking contributors in various areas. The blog post above by Jim McKeeth has the entire history of the prize and also the…
PacktPub has been adding Delphi programming books and videos lately, and they have a big sale going on right now with them all available for just $5 each. I’ve not read or reviewed all of these, but I know most of the authors, and many are MVPs.
Mastering Delphi…
If you’ve been a member of the Delphi community for a while you are no doubt aware of the Spirit of Delphi Award.
The Spirit of Delphi was introduced in 1998
It was announced as part of the annual developers conference (called ICON98 as it was during the Inprise…
In RAD Studio 10.3 we’ve made an interesting very low-level change that affects both Delphi and C++. This is a change in the how method parameters are passed when a method is invoked.
For the vast majority of customers, this issue won’t affect you — or if it does, you…
We have just released a hotfix for RAD Studio 10.3, which addresses a number of issues in the C++ compiler and RTL. This is an important hotfix if you rely on compiler version numbers (for example, for version-specific behaviour in your code, especially useful if you are…
Author: Rebekah D
If you completed any of the String exercises from the past day, you probably already have a handle on what functions are and how they are used. You should skip this lesson and work on a challenge of your choice.
Prerequisites:
You should already have…
Author: Rebekah D
In this installment of the #CodingResolutions series, let’s take a look at Strings and how to manipulate them. While today still has a fair amount of reading, we’ll finish off by playing with a sample application that demonstrates String…
Author: Rebekah D
So far in the #CodingResolutions series, we’ve worked a lot in the visual design framework to demonstrate how easy it is to create low-code apps. It’s instant gratification to see our apps come to life! However, there’s a lot more to programming so…
Author: Rebekah D
Welcome back to the #CodingResolutions series! In this post, we’re going to make sure we have our developer environment set up for Android Development, and then create our first Android app in either C++ or Delphi.
Prerequisites:
You should already…
2019 #CodingResolutions: Your First Windows App (In C++ or Delphi)
January 10, 2019
Author: Rebekah D
Skipping Past “Hello, World!”
Ready to create your first app? Most introduction to programming classes will start with the quintessential “Hello World!” program that outputs that greeting phrase to the console and it looks like this:
While…
