While most of the Delphi conferences in Europe happen in the fall (September and October are generally fairly crowded months), there are also a few regular events in the late spring timeframe.
Delphi Day, Italy, June 7th
The Delphi Day in Italy is a conference I helped organized for many years and that generally attracts a crowd of about ahundred Delphi professional developers. This year it…
Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building…
Author: Craig Chapman
My regular readers may be aware that over the past two or three months, I’ve been working on building a new video game engine for Delphi. I’ve also had many other demands on my time, which has meant that I’ve not posted in a while. Today however…
Solution Name: RAD Server Field Service Application – Delphi
Industry: Field Service
Solution Overview: The RAD Server Field Service Industry Template provides an end-to-end field service application template for routing appointments, managing parts, and user administration. It is made up of a REST server module, a desktop client, and a cross platform mobile…
Delphi 10.2.3 RAD Server Linux Apache Patch Released
May 18, 2018
As you have probably seen, Embarcadero has released a few patches for 10.2.3. I wrote about them at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-april-10-2-3-patches-recap.html and there was a new one for iOS covered by Sarina at…
C++ with LINQ
May 18, 2018
Author: Shinji Chikugi
I found an interesting C++ libraly.That is “LINQ for C++”.
What’s “LINQ”?
LINQ (Integrated Language Query) is a function of C#. LINQ issues a query to the container and gets the result.
For details, please refer to…
Building Stunning UIs with C++ and FireMonkey
May 16, 2018
With many companies taking the “mobile first” approach, building applications that work on multiple platforms is a requirement for success.
Developers who know how to build for more than one platform are in demand, while application users have become accustomed to stunning UIs and intuitive UX.
Normally, mobile app development requires learning multiple programming languages and tools like…
Evolution of C++ standards
May 16, 2018
Programming languages are exciting for developers, and C++, one of the more technically challenging and also perhaps the most widely used compiled language, is one of the most exciting. As Theodore Roosevelt is misquoted (*), ‘the more you know about the past…
Test Unitarios; Framework DUnitX (Entrega 4)
May 15, 2018
Author: Germán Estévez
Completamos con esta entrada la serie sobre test unitarios, centrándonos en el Framework DUnitX, que es el que actualmente embarcadero recomienda y se incluye en las últimas versiones de Delphi.
Test Unitarios; Introducción (Entrega 1)
Test…
I was really excited to see BriskBard by Salvador Díaz Fau as the April 2018 winner of the Cool App Contest. BriskBard is a browser, and a whole lot more. All the other browsers out there are just browsers, while BriskBards is a web browser for Windows that includes an email client, a media player, a news aggregator, a contact manager, an FTP client, a usenet newsreader, an IRC…