Author: Andrew Bond
While doing some bug fixing and cleanup in a web application, I had the chance to go a little deeper into the jQuery user input validation framework. There are many tutorials available about implementing custom validations. But what I wanted to do was to extend the default validations with my own code, while preserving the existing functionality, and to do it site-wide.
So…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Do you remember that Delphi 6 was the first IDE in the market with Web Services support? This trend continues and Delphi 2009 supports building web service servers and clients:-) In this post I’m going to describe all steps neccessary to build…
Author: Aaron Rosenberg
How would you approach creating a game with Delphi?
I keep playing with Delphi Prism and recently downloaded XNA Game Studio 3.0. It installs very nicely into Delphi Prism. I wonder what is the most commonly used software for creating games that will…
Author: Barry K21557
[This blog post is by Allen Bauer, but during the blog engine migration was attributed to the wrong author.]
Solving problems can be fun and challenging. What is really challenging is solving a problem using only the tools at hand. During the development…
Author: Allen
Ever since before Delphi 1, the (then Delphi only) RAD Studio IDE has been full of home-grown multicast event class types. I usually refer to these as an “event bus.” This is from my hardware days when I designed microcontroller based…
Author: Markus Humm
With Tiburon, I can useUnicode characterswith VCL components like TMemo, TListBox, TComboBox (and others that contain string lists). Howcan Iload the stringsfrom a file and savethe stringsto a file?
Author: Andreano Lanusse T1394
As you know Embarcadero is a database company, now a database and developer company. A number of great database tools are coming, one of these tools is ER/Studio, which is a tool specialized in database modeling.
ER/Studio is independent of…
Author: Craig Stuntz
For the past couple of days I’ve been working on an experimental IntraWeb (a.k.a., “VCL for the Web”) project. Since I typically generate user interfaces dynamically, I wanted to see how that worked with IntraWeb. On the surface, it’s…
Author: Craig Stuntz
The procedure for installing ActiveX controls on the Delphi/RAD Studio 2007 component palette is apparently confusing to some users of older versions of Delphi. So here’s a simple example. In this example, I’m installing the type libraries…
Author: Germán Estévez
Why do we write applications? One answer could be “for fun”, but not always we are in such a comfortable situation of doing something without a real (business) reason. This is where “Creating Value from Programming” comes…
