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Key Target Platforms Update

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October 27, 2020
I wanted to share some interesting data following a recent presentation looking into Modern Windows development. 75% of Windows Desktops use Windows 10! Source: StatCounter Windows 10 is now used by 3 out of every 4 Windows desktop machines! This market share is up around 10% in 2020, having originally passed Windows 7 back in late 2017. Windows 7 is down to around 18% and falling.
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Newcomer's Perspective - FireDAC and SQLite

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October 27, 2020
FireDAC is Embarcadero’s library for universal data access – connection to just about any database protocol you can find. It abstracts the protocol-level details and presents a common interface so developers can build their applications to be database agnostic and flexible in the event of future design changes. My work this week focused on FireDAC and local databases. SQLite is…
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Building a C++ VCL Customer/Sales Master/Detail/Charting Application with 1 Line of Code

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October 22, 2020
You may have read or heard about No Code and Low Code application development using systems, languages and run times. Atanas Popov, GM of Embarcadero Technology, recently blogged about low code development. “These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research groups, such as Gartner, put the low-code application development platform market at ~$10M billion in 2019 and project CAGR to…
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