Next week I’ll be presenting at an event in London organized by our partner Grey Matter. You can find more information and the link to sign up onhttp://www.greymatter.com/corporate/events/to-delphinity-and-beyond-free-delphi-workshop/
Titled “To Delphinity and Beyond” the event is focused on a general update of where the product is today and where it is heading in the…
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As many of you may already be aware, I am now a regular guest on Jim McKeeth’s Delphi podcast along side David Millington.
The pod-casts recently became video streamed, and have adopted a more structured “Themed Episode” format.
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Google has made available to all Gmail users a Linux Shell called Google Cloud Shell for interacting with their Cloud Services. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with a storage capacity of 5GB. It is not a VM that continues to run while you are disconnected, but rather a shell that allows you to perform tasks on a Linux box. When your session ends and you reconnect, a new machine is created for…
C++Builder supports Boost, a common and useful C++ library. Through the GetIt package manager, you can install a build of v1.55 for our Clang compilers, or if you are using the classic compiler, an older version of Boost, v1.39.
Theversion available on GetIt for…
As more small and home businesses continue to enter the marketplace, point of sale (POS) technologies have become a critical part of modern economy. I’m excited to report that one of the real innovators in this market, BeePOS, is the winner of Embarcadero’s Cool App contest for January. The industry buzz around this company has been tremendous (obligatory bee reference, check!), and we’re…
Every once in a while, I get a request to help migrate Borland OWL applications to C++ Builder VCL applications.
Background
TheObject Windows Library(OWL) is aC++object-orientedapplication frameworkdesigned to simplify desktop application…
On Monday this week David, Craig, and Jim discuss some of their favorite programming books, both focusing on Delphi and C++ specific ones, and general programming topics.
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Last week, Embarcadero released a patch for Tokyo 10.2.2, focused on Android and RTL improvements. What happened is that Windows would not always ask for execution with admin account (on systems with active User Account Control) and could end up copying the replacement files in a wrong location. It did affect a few of the developers who tried it, so we pulled it, fixed the installer and now…
