Developer Nader Shallabi has an adversary emulation planning tool called ATT&CK™ View which is built in Delphi. It is a utility for use with MITRE™ ATT&CK™. MITRE™ ATT&CK™ is a “globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations“. ATT&CK™ View helps defenders in designing adversary emulation plans. It…
These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research groups, such as Gartner, put the low-code application development platform market at ~$10M billion in 2019 and project CAGR to be greater than 20% from 2020 to 2027. In contrast, the market for developer tools has…
Dev-C++ Is A Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built In Delphi
October 18, 2020
Embarcadero Dev-C++ is a new and improved fork (sponsored by Embarcadero) of Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Orwell Dev-C++. It is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and code editor for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler…
Retro Dive Into Thieves Guild Source Code Hot Off A 3.5 Floppy Disk
September 20, 2020
Near the end of the last century, when the Internet was young, BBS were everywhere, and Atari STs were hot, two developers (Paul Witte and Herb Flower) built a game called Thieves’ Guild. Thieves’ Guild was (is?) a multiplayer strategy game for BBS systems. Players could (can?) explorer a large medieval world with spell casting, combat, and thievery. With 25 different towns to explore…
3 Libraries for improving Existing Applications built with Delphi
September 11, 2020
One topic I get increasingly asked about Delphi Programming when developers are migrating to the latest version of RAD Studio is “quick ways to improve their applications”. So in this post, I am going to summarise 3 favorites by focusing on the libraries in RAD Studio.
I have had a growing number of customers asking recently about getting started with Android programming with Delphi, so I thought it was a good time to refresh how to check your IDE is set up, how to enable developer mode on an Android phone, and show how you can rapidly get…
Set of utilities for Delphi and C++Builder to speed up your development process
September 2, 2020
Intro
When you start building any project, you might end up creating functions to use in several points of your application. Maybe you develop a set of code snippets. Utilities are an important point of connection between your software and the device it runs on, but what if you didn’t have to create them yourself?
WinSoft offers a Utils library that gives you a bunch of functions to…
Looking to upgrade the memory manager in Embarcadero Dev C++ I investigated a number of memory manages including FastMM4-AVX. The second memory manager I looked at is called BigBrain 2020 and it looks to have significant performance improvements in some areas. There is a…
Double Performance In Some Scenarios With Custom FastMM4-AVX Memory Manager
August 26, 2020
While looking into upgrading the FastMM4 version in Embarcadero Dev-C++ I ran across a fork of FastMM4 called FastMM4-AVX. It uses special instruction sets to achieve better results than the original FastMM4. Developer maximmasiutin has added a number of enhancements to the…
The Nexus Quality Suite (NQS) is a set of tools that enables you to fine tune your applications to the highest possible performance and quality standards. The current collection of tools include Line, Method and Block level profilers; a memory and resources leek analysis tool; a unit test coverage analyser; a static executable analysis tool; and a GUI script recorder/playback tool.
NexusQA…
