Despite the release of Windows 11 back in October 2021, Windows 10 is still the most popular version of the operating system. Although most people will update, many may avoid updating due to software compatibility issues. Therefore, targeting Windows 10 development will currently give you the most extensive customer base, and later on, you can change your development focus to Windows 11.
For…
Alister Christie And Serge Pilko Talk Delphi, Part 3 of 3: Why Delphi, And Why a New Book
March 7, 2022
On 12 January Serge Pilko, Embarcadero MVP and founder of Softacom, a world leading Delphi software development services and software solutions provider, published a video of his interview with Alister Christie, author of the legendary “Code Faster in Delphi” and the…
How Are Delphi And Electron Licenses Alike And How Do They Differ?
February 27, 2022
Delphi and Electron licenses differ significantly. In fact in some ways they are diametrically opposed. The benchmarking study sited in this blog post and the entire series of which it is the seventh post looks at the similarities and differences between the two platforms.
This blog post compares the Delphi and Electron frameworks based on the Application Store Deployment, namely whether the framework’s IDE makes it easy to deploy directly to native platform application stores by reducing the complexities surrounding deployment and reducing time-to-market. This post is part of a benchmarking whitepaper comparing the two frameworks.
The “Discovering The…
The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Visual Development, the Power of the C++ Language and 2.5 decades of Continuing Excellence
February 26, 2022
Delphi version 1 was launched at the Software Development Conference in San Francisco on February 14, 1995. I and other team members would travel around the world giving demonstrations of the IDE, Object Pascal language, VCL components and database connectivity. When Delphi…
C++ is an incredibly versatile, powerful, multi-purpose programming language. There is quite literally nothing that cannot be done with C++ whether it be a low-level, close to metal system application which pulls out the maximum amount of power from the computer to the most…
At Softacom, as a software company specializing in mobile and Windows app development using Delphi, we often integrate clients’ software with 3rd party services using API. In this article we show you how to automatically create posts on Facebook from your Delphi apps using the Facebook Graph API.
How can I create posts on Facebook from a Delphi application?
Facebook is the…
Delphi and C++ developers have a wide spectrum of available tools to help build solutions for their companies and customers. Beyond just the compiler, IDE, components and libraries, Embarcadero and Idera provide tools you can leverage to get the development done faster and…
The C++ Programming language is one of the most broadly used software programming languages. It can be downloaded easily and allows users to develop high quality professional applications for all sorts of different platforms for modern desktop and mobile devices. It’s hard…
Happy 27th Birthday Delphi and a Few Thoughts about Building the Future
February 14, 2022
My first Pascal, Turbo Pascal and Delphi Experiences
I wrote my first Pascal program in 1972 as a Computer Science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I knew from the beginning that Pascal would be part of my future career in some way. I first met Philippe Kahn at the Comdex Las Vegas 1983 convention when he stopped our Softsel Computer Products (now Merisel) booth. Back then I was running…
