I was really excited to see BriskBard by Salvador Díaz Fau as the April 2018 winner of the Cool App Contest. BriskBard is a browser, and a whole lot more. All the other browsers out there are just browsers, while BriskBards is a web browser for Windows that includes an email client, a media player, a news aggregator, a contact manager, an FTP client, a usenet newsreader, an IRC…
A little fun with Delphi for today’s Star Wars day!
This is a pretty simple 3D form with a 3D layout at an angle, and then a 2D layout with text and images is animated up the 3D layout. The only code is populating the labels as the animation kicks off…
You might have seen my blog has had a few issues recently. It is a very old application written in Delphi and running on a totally outdated Linux VM, hosted by a newer and more robust server. But the reality is, it is fairly fragile. First it had a kernel crash, caused by a…
The RAD Studio IDE contains a toolbar allowing you to log on to Community, and see messages sent to you by other users, questions and answers, andother notifications.
Recent website upgrades have caused issues with this toolbar for some users (now resolved), and we…
In the world of software development, we are up against new cyber security threats each day, and the risks and consequences of un-secure software is too great to be unaware of.
Join presenter, Mary Kelly, to address the key security sins related to C++ applications, how…
Providing your application menu on the home/main screen is a popular design pattern used in many applications today. It is especiallyuseful in mobile applications where screen real estate is limited. Home screen navigationcan be used by itselfto serve as…
Embarcadero hashad a free download of our C++ compiler andRTL (capable of making Win32 apps) for many years, going back into the Borland days. (In fact, Idera as a company likes providing free tools – check out some of the others here.) We aim to keep…
In 10.2.3, there is an issue affectingmethods using the fastcall calling convention that allocate 4KB or more on the stack inside the method. The stack allocation could result in the ‘this’ pointer containing an incorrect value. This was reported…
C++ Templates : Blueprints for Generic Classes and Functions
C++ Templates are a powerful feature within the C++ language that extends your capabilities within C++. Templates are a foundation of generic programming that lets you reuse your source code if you have…
I have already blogged specifically about the 10.2.3 release, the patcheswe delivered for it, and linked to the collection of related articles in the community site athttps://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/tags/tag/10-2-3. In particular, the launch webinar reply…
