The Windows operating system is the most used desktop operating system in the World. Windows 11 launched with a substantial firestorm of publicity from Microsoft. With the new innovations such as the excellent Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) there seems to be a large uptick in interest from coders looking to Windows program development. Microsoft have consolidated their position as the dominant…
The modern-day software development industry is going through a challenging time — a falling productivity crisis. Each year this problem becomes more evident and increasingly manifests itself in a variety of ways.
This productivity drain problem has a number of…
Alister Christie And Serge Pilko Talk Delphi, Part 1 of 3: Career Beginnings With Delphi
February 20, 2022
In the world of Delphi, Alister Christie needs no introduction. He is the author of the legendary “Code Faster in Delphi”, and the creator of hundreds of videos that showed many of today’s Delphi developers around the world how to program and accomplish things with…
Code size is a simple metric that compares the number of lines of code required to create the benchmark application in the study. The “Discovering The Best Cross-Platform Framework Through Benchmarking” whitepaper evaluates two frameworks supporting multi-platform desktop application development: Delphi and Electron.
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts looking more closely at…
The final build time metric in the “Discovering The Best Cross-Platform Framework Through Benchmarking” whitepaper measures the total amount of time required for the framework to produce the final build for the benchmark application. The whitepaper evaluates two…
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…
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 development done faster and with higher quality. Here is a quick rundown of all of the tools.
Developer Tools
Delphi and C++Builder (Professional…
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…
Grab Your HUGE Delphi Anniversary “Innovation Timeline” Infographic!
February 14, 2022
Are you interested in seeing how your preferred programming language has progressed over time and what additional innovations it has enabled? Is Delphi tearing your curly brackets apart, or has C# sharpened your skills? Do you remember the various phones you’ve had…
Application modernization, also known as legacy modernization, involves updating existing software and its features to benefit from technological advances and maintain performance. Modernization can involve making apps cloud-native to lower cost and increase scalability and agility, and to enable remote teams to maintain and update it. Besides improving performance, modernization extends the…
