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What’s New and Updated in GetIt for October 2018

GetIt is the package manager built into RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. It includes 214 packages in 8 different categories. 38 Library packages 121 Component packages 53 Internet of Things components 60 Trials 4 Industry Templates 2 IDE Plugins 3 Styles 26 Sample projects New and updated packages get added to GetIt all the time. Here are a few of the recent changes and the most popular…
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Embarcadero's June 2018 Cool App Winner is MalyKangurek POS

Years ago I worked at a company that maintained a Point of Sale (POS) system written in Delphi. I wasn’t involved in that project (I was developing a medication management system for an assisted living facility), but talking with some of the developers that were working on…
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What does the GitHub acquisition mean for RAD Studio?

Microsoft’s June 4 announcement about its acquisition of Github for $7.5 billion has created great interest in the developer community.  Hacker News showed mixed reactions, as did Reddit.  Twitter has some contentious threads.  Motherboard reports that Gitlab, an open…
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BriskBard Named as Embarcadero's Cool App Winner for April

  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…
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BEAM is Embarcadero's March Cool App Winner

Woll2Woll’s BEAM (Beacon External Advanced Mapper) makes RAD Server’s BeaconFence technology so much more flexible, and it is the March 2018 Winner of our Cool App contest. With RAD Server and BeaconFence it is easy to create an application that accurately tracks indoor…
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Upgrade SKU Extended to April 30th

Hello Embarcadero Developer Community!  As you all may know, we made a business decision to “end of life” our Upgrade SKU’s on March 31st in an effort to simplify the purchasing process.  The demand to extend this was frankly unexpectedly high.  We listened and…