This month has seen an ever-changing global situation with the outbreak of the coronavirus. The first timethat I can remember I had to radically change / cancel a live event due to circumstances out of our control.
At the start of March we were keeping an eye on the news to see how the spread of the coronavirus had impacted Denmark. With only 2 cases in Denmark, the advice at the time was…
TIOBEis one of manyprogramming language popularity indexes. Their methodology involves doing a search across various search engines with the name of a programming language followed by the word programming. So they look for “Delphi Programming” as an…
Writing Software for Multiple Platforms and Architectures with FireMonkey
March 3, 2020
When developers think about Delphi or C++Builder, the power of the Visual Component Library (VCL) is typically the first thing that comes to mind. If there is a factor that has been instrumental to the success of both Delphi and C++Builder, it is without a doubt the VCL.
The…
Recently, here at Embarcadero we’ve been celebrating a historic birthday, Delphi’s 25th birthday (Feb 14, 1995.) There have been some great blog posts, stories, andpeople sharing on twitter, not to mention an amazing Delphi 1 celebration websiteand an interview with Anders Hejlsberg and Chuck Jazdzewski.
However,two years after Delphi was released was another product…
Creating PDF Reports in RAD Server
Reporting is a critical aspect of any enterprise application, but the data and the programming components to create reports are not always available on all platforms?
It took a little trial and error to work out the best path to create…
In my previous post I focused on InterBase 2020 and outlined five good reasons why InterBase should be your next database engine. In this post I want to look at five awesome additions to Delphi that help you write lean, modern and fully compliant Windows 10 applications.
To…
SQLGate Validates Delphi As The Right Tool For Building High Performance IDEs - Cool App Selection
December 11, 2019
One of the most intangible, yet key, strengths of Delphi is its ability to enable developers to create visually beautiful applications that perform their functions quietly, effectively, and with consummate rock-solid reliability. SQLGate from Chequer Inc. is exactly one of those software success stories.
SQLGate is one of the leading IDEs for database management and development. With over 50,000…
Over the last few years, it has become more and more common to deploy server-side solutions (and in fact any type of application) to lightweight containers rather than physical machines or virtual machines, as this allows more flexibility (also in terms of testing), a better…
We are very excited to announce the release of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.3.3.
10.3 Rio Release 3 builds on the feature set of 10.3, 10.3.1 and 10.3.2 by adding new capabilities throughout the product. Delphi 10.3.3, C++Builder 10.3.3 and RAD Studio 10.3.3 are now…
Visual Components Library (VCL): The Best Choice for Windows Applications
November 20, 2019
Atanas Popov (General Manager of Embarcadero) and Marco Cantu (RAD Studio Product Manager at Embarcadero) have had a conversation about the role of VCL for Windows client development. This is an un-edited transcript of the recording of the chat.
Atanas: Hi Marco, I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you a couple of questions about VCL. As the interest in upgrading to Windows 10 grows and…
