Bill Clinton was President, Windows 3.1 was king, and CompuServe was still a thing. The R&D team at Borland Software Corporation which included Anders Hejlsberg, Gary Whizin, Chuck Jazdzewski, Dave Scofield, Allen Bauer, Hank Cox, Marc Cousineau, and Ray Kaestner released Delphi and changed the software development world forever.
In 1995 Delphi was lauded as the next generation Windows…
As part of my recent DelphiCon 2021 session, Multi-Platform Explorations using Delphi, FMX, Feeds, REST and More, my example code needed to use IFDEFs for some of the uses statements, variable definitions and code. This blog post contains an example of the use of defines…
Vaporwave and synthwave, which combine futurism and nostalgia, have become popular in recent years. We commissioned a Brazilian artist to create a vaporwave aesthetic for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. What better way to mark the occasion than with some vaporwave…
You know, the hardest part about learning a new language is remembering some of the more esoteric words and phrases. Does that error message say “syntax error” or “successful compilation”? Does that button really say “end” in Danish or has there been some kind of horrible misunderstanding? How do I exit VIM? Just kidding – nobody knows that. But…
The application migration process can be easy or tedious, depending on the technology you are migrating. Moreover, migrating legacy projects to a new development environment might take a vast amount of time because of new software-from-scratch –…
In the last few years, companies are increasingly seeking the most cost-effective ways to optimize the way they make powerful applications. Cost-effective demands high productivity and a fast app development environment. Furthermore, using Windows App Development Tools to…
RAD Server is a powerful application and easy to implement infrastructure for rapidly building and deploying services-based applications. RAD Server offers developers the ability to quickly create modern services-based architectures using Delphi and C++ IDEs.
RAD Server – Foundation to take your existing client/server business logic to REST API endpoints swiftly.
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The ScrapeStack API was built to offer a simple REST API interface for scraping web pages at scale without having to programmatically deal with geolocations, IP blocks or CAPTCHAs. The API supports a series of features essential to web scraping, such as JavaScript rendering…
It is essential to recognize when not to write code. We developers comprehend, when the code increases in a project, things lead to getting more dangerous. If you crave to restrict your code from becoming more acute, to atrophy, it requires to be maintained most of the…
In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a news application with Delphi FireMonkey. We will integrate one of the market-leading news RESTful web services into our Delphi cross-platform application.
MediaStack API – is a free and simple REST API for live news and blog articles. This service is platform agnostic and can be utilized with any Windows App Development tools quickly. In…
