Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world. Almost 50% of developers use it every day. At the same time, many of you are building and deploying applications to Linux-based servers running in the cloud. You need a solution for seamlessly developing Linux-based applications on Windows. It will allow you to maintain the settings across both operating systems. As a result, you…
As a methodology for software development, cross platform applications development has been rapidly gaining traction – and for good reasons too. Putting it simply, cross-platform development means developing software that will work across multiple platforms and types…
In a world where people are constantly glued to their gadgets, it’s no surprise that businesses are starting to invest more in mobile app development. But with so many different types of devices out there, how can you make sure your app will work on all of them? The…
When choosing the best app builder software for Mac, we use many heuristics and yardsticks to measure and justify our decision. But the irony is if our decision is wrong, our company and our client also have to pay the price. We should be very logical and careful when choosing our development tools. There are many tools and routes available for Mac development. We should consider several things in…
Happy 27th Birthday Delphi and a Few Thoughts about Building the Future
February 14, 2022
My first Pascal, Turbo Pascal and Delphi Experiences
I wrote my first Pascal program in 1972 as a Computer Science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I knew from the beginning that Pascal would be part of my future career in some way. I first met Philippe Kahn at…
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…
Mobile apps are popular, but with the global pandemic disrupting workplaces worldwide, desktop devices will bring the office to you starting this week. Microsoft has reported that over 1.3 billion devices are running Windows 10, and the company is working on releasing Windows 11. Some tasks can be completed using only a mobile device, but for other information economy activities like software…
RAD Studio 11 is Coming: New Version Number Announcement and Beta Invite for Update Subscription Customers
July 13, 2021
We are pleased to announce that the next version of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio will be version 11. This is currently in the works and we plan to release it later this year.
Moving to Version 11
A few years back, Embarcadero decided to match the version number of the…
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…
Google Cloud offers a Natural Language API which allows a developer to take unstructured text as an input and utilize Google’s machine learning capabilities to derive insight from it. They have a number of different operations that can be performed on a piece of text including syntax analysis, entity analysis, custom entity extraction, sentiment analysis, custom sentiment analysis, content…
