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"Serverless Architectures on AWS" summer reading

Author: Pawe Gowacki Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at. I have recently bought printed (!) version of “Serverless Architectures on AWS” book by Peter…
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Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern

Author: Pawe Gowacki One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be…
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Fun with FireMonkey Gradients

Author: Pawe Gowacki Everybody loves colours. Great apps should use colours in clever and original ways. I have been recently spending a lot of time using Delphi XE5 for designing screens for mobile apps and must admit that I really like the way how iOS 7 is using colours and gradients. There is a lot of interesting information about iOS user interface design best practices at “iOS 7 Design…
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Delphi Labs: DataSnap code samples updated to XE3

Author: Pawe Gowacki It seems that it is my very first post in the New Year 2013, so I wish You all the best and great time writing all kinds of programs. I’m sure it is going to be a great year for Delphi and Marco is predicting it as well, especially that next month Delphi is going to become adult! Two years ago I have put together a serie of Delphi DataSnap tutorials called “Delphi…
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