Your mobile phone is not the first place to spring to mind when you think of wine. Mankind has had some sort of relationship with wine for centuries, possibly even thousands of years according to some reports. The oldest drinkable wine is known as The Speyer bottle which dates back to Roman times. Anyone who has seen ancient Roman and Greek mosaics will have noticed their apparent pre-occupation…
Do you harbor a secret inner desire to be the next Professor Robert Langdon zooming around exotic tourist destinations and the world’s most beautiful landmark cities solving anagrams and saving The World from ancient secret societies? If so, you’d need to enjoy…
SongShow Plus demonstrates how a well-written application can breeze through seemingly difficult tasks like real-time streaming. On the face of it SongShow Plus – which is now on version 8 – is portrayed as a remote control and aid for live presentations and…
Automate Access To Current And Historical Currency Exchange Rates Via API
April 14, 2021
Currency exchange rates are an interesting financial dataset similar to stock quotes and cryptocurrency datasets. For building solutions like software or a POS system for a currency exchange business, it is a necessary dataset and there are APIs online that give you easy access to this data. One API that is available is from ExchangeRatesAPI.io which is owned by apilayer (a sister company of…
How To Make An Epic Dashboard Visualization For Windows, Mobile And The Web The Easy Way
April 12, 2021
Dashboards, graphical visualization of data, seem to be everywhere, especially in these pandemic times where daily and weekly trends take on a very personal significance. In this article, we are going to look at a beautiful dashboard that you can very easily customize to…
ThingConnect IoT device component pack is one of the best areas of RAD Studio. It offers you to connect to dozens of IoT devices with easy-to-use interfaces. For instance, you can connect to the Aeon Labs Light Bulb using Delphi or C++ Builder.
As you can see these…
If you would like to create professional-looking instrumentation and multimedia applications with VCL and FireMonkey you should read this post!
What is TMS Instrumentation?
TMS Instrumentation is a library full of components, methods, and routines enabling you to create professional-looking instrumentation and a multimedia application. This component set contains more than 80…
Native applications feel really good. You know what I am saying! They look nice and work better. And no flickering or eating lots of memory. With Delphi and C++ Builder you can build cross-platform native applications easily in no time.
FireMonkey offers full access…
Easily Create Robust Cross-Platform IoT Solutions With Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
March 15, 2021
Most of the developers already familiar with HTTP web services. HTTP is a synchronous protocol so the client waits for the server to respond which comes at the cost of poor scalability. And synchronous communication is problematic when it comes to high load systems.
David Vacanti is a long time Delphi developer for over 26 years. He submitted a showcase entry (PROLINES 8: An Incredible Marine Vessel Design Software Powered By Delphi) into the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge and we interviewed him to find out more about his journey with Delphi. You can find out more about his PROLINES 8 software and other software he has built in Delphi over on the product page…
