1995 is a very important year in the history of Delphi. On February 14 of that year the first version of Delphi was released for 16-bit Windows 3.1 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool.
Delphi came as a departure from its predecessor, Borland’s Turbo Pascal for Windows. Turbo Pascal combined an editor, debugger, compiler, linker, and libraries, and evolved into Object Pascal after…
I can say, with confidence, that desktop apps are not dead, in fact they are very much alive and thriving. Web apps are on the rise and it’s a common trope to say that web applications can replace windows app development. But they couldn’t do that. In some cases…
In this article, you’ll learn more about the Windows design language, what has changed, and how to make your applications look their best on Windows11, view the webinar’s recording.
The Five Eras of Windows UI
Windows ClassicWindows XP…
With the official release of Windows 11, Embarcadero has made some specific VCL styles, and I’m offering some coding helpers specific to the new version of the Microsoft desktop OS. More will come over time.
After the announcement earlier this year, Microsoft officially released Windows 11 last week. Despite some issues running the new operating system on older computers due to new…
STOMP is the Simple (or Streaming) Text Oriented Messaging Protocol. STOMP provides an interoperable wire format so that STOMP clients can communicate with any STOMP message broker to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among many languages, platforms…
Just recently there have been some great webinars and posts on how to modernize your applications. We’ve gathered together a collection of the most recent ones which focus on Microsoft’s gorgeous Fluent Design System.
First: What Is The Fluent Design System And…
In this post, we invite you to Join Delphi MVP Ian Barker as he demonstrates how to achieve the modern Windows 10 look and feel with RAD Studio themes and some *extremely* low-cost third-party controls. Ian will show you how to achieve that truly modern WOW factor with minimal effort.
Looking for a windows software that helps you design User Interfaces? Try the Windows UI Toolkit and make the…
TCoffeeAndCode is back – register now!!
TCoffeeAndCode is returning back for 3 more sessions in March, moving to a new time of 1pm GMT (2pm CET) to enable a lunchtime break, and also enable some of our American friends to join us for a breakfast bru!
Tue – 16th…
Delphi 10.4.2 Sydney is out, and it is full of new features, fixes, and general quality improvements. I really do believe it is the perfect mix of polish and new features, and everyone I’ve talked to seems to agree. One of the stand-out features is the Delphi compiler…
Video: FirePower X Is A Powerful Cross-Platform Desktop Component Suite For Delphi FireMonkey
February 12, 2021
In this webinar, Embarcadero Delphi MVP Ian Barker writes and deploys an app that targets Windows, macOS, and Linux from one set of code using just Delphi 10.4 and the FirePower components from Woll2Woll software. Roy Woll (from Woll2Woll) will be taking part in a live Q & A session with Ian after the demonstration to answer your questions plus attendees can get a coupon for a discount on the…
