A common pattern when inserting data into a database table which has an auto increment field set on it is to use an SQL query to select the last inserted ID of the newly created record. Once you use your TFDQuery to run your INSERT query you can run this second query to get the newly inserted auto increment ID. Different databases have different SQL queries to accomplish this. MySQL for example…
CodeRage XII: Amazon S3 and Cloud API
November 12, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki
CodeRage XII was great! Plenty of contents and great fun. It was not the first time I have been doing a session on using Delphi Cloud API to integrate with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This year I thought it would be cool to go a little bit…
In CodeRageX there were two sessions around MongoDB. The first session is the basics and the second session is more advanced topics dealing with MongoDB.MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL document database. The first session covers a MongoDB overview, JSON and BSON, the…
In this replay demo oriented session from CodeRage X, Pawel is going to show how to build single-source multi-device, natively compiled Delphi apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac that integrate with Amazon Web Services using Cloud API framework. Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers secure, scalable and inexpensive “cloud computing” platform that combined with cross-platform mobile and desktop…
I was thinking about how I would do a gender based analysis of our customer database without surveying our customers. The Embarcadero Community profile does not ask whether you are male or female. At the recent Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, there was a…
My Amazon Web Services Programming with Delphi CodeRageX session
October 13, 2015
Author: Pawe Gowacki
In a moment my “Amazon Web Services with Delphi” CodeRage X session is starting. I’m very excited and the sessions so far were very good. It is still 2 and half more days to go!
The source code for the demos shown during my AWS Delphi…
Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps
April 17, 2014
I previously wrote a blog post on how to send notifications via our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support in Delphi to your mobile devices on iOS and Android. This blog post assumes that you followed the steps in my previous blog post and in the referenced docwiki articles.
In this post, I thought I would cover how to send notifications from BaaS enabled FireMonkey or VCL Desktop apps to your…