Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software. To celebrate the recent π day 2024 with a Delphi flavor I revisited the previous sample I made with Rudy’s Big Numbers library adding the functionality to view the digits of π in real time as they are being generated. Previously it would generate any number of digits you wanted, but you could only…
How To Run Turbo Pascal On An Android Phone!
March 13, 2024
Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software Why run Turbo Pascal on Android? Because we can!
As part of the Turbo Pascal 40th birthday celebration (combined with Delphi’s 29th birthday) I did a short demo of…
A Complete Guide To The List Of Features In C++ 11
March 13, 2024
C++ is one of the most powerful programming languages and it is being improved by every new C++ standard. The “Modern C++” term started with the release of the C++11 standards, and then the C++14, C++17, and C++20 standards followed. In the future C++23 is on the horizon…
Hello C++ Developer, this week we have a new meeting about the latest C++ Builder 12 update, and we have 3 new posts to share with you. In these posts, we explain TViewport3D and TMesh components and we create a parametric torus function to draw different torus types in modern C++. We have two more posts about modern data containers, these are std::set and set::deque
C++Builder has a brand new…
How To Use The Firebase API To Add, Read, and Delete Data In A Realtime Document-Oriented Database
March 1, 2024
Currently, the use of a remote database for storing various types of data (such as product and user information for an online store, patient details in a clinic, etc.) is highly relevant. Also, more and more developers want to create cross platform apps to access the data on…
What Are The C++ 17 Random Number Generators
February 28, 2024
Hello developers, I hope you are all happy and well. This week we have new C++ posts about modern random generators in modern programming today. Since C++11, in addition to rand() and std::rand(), we have new random number generators. These are called Mersenne Twister random…
How To Use Data Containers With C++ Builder 12
February 21, 2024
Hello developers, I am really happy this year about the new version of RAD Studio 12, it has been released with a big impact of a lot of enhancements and quality improvements in C++ Builder 12 and Delphi 12. After this release, Embarcadero has restored the ability of the 12.0 GetIt server to install additional packages from the RAD Studio 12 Athens IDE via the GetIt package manager. New…
The Long and Winding Road To Today's Delphi - Happy 29th Birthday !
February 14, 2024
The Long and Winding Road To Delphi’s 29th Birthday
This blog post contains a quick look at 29+ years of development, innovation, community and fun with Delphi.
It Started with Pascal
In order to get to today’s 29th year of Delphi, we have to start back in 1970…
Delphi's 29th Anniversary Webinar Replay And Slides
February 14, 2024
Well, that was a lot of fun! We just had an amazing “not your usual webinar” event where we celebrated the anniversary of 29 years since the release of Delphi. We covered all the sorts of things you would expect with a great presentation of the history of Delphi…
We've Updated The HUGE Delphi Anniversary “Innovation Timeline” Infographic. Grab it Now!
February 13, 2024
Do you recall the Delphi Innovation Timeline Infographic Embarcadero published on Delphi’s 27th anniversary two years ago? Well, we’ve updated it this year for Delphi’s 29th! And you can download it free here:
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What is The Delphi Innovation Timeline Infographic?
The Delphi Timeline Innovation Timeline infographic is a visual trace of the history of…