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VOTEA Delphi Demo with WeatherStack by APILayer
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I recently gave a presentation about the use of cloud and REST APIs from Delphi at the Italian Delphi Day conference, at the end of June. Among the various demos, I made some experiments using… … Read more
2 years ago
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Considerations on Delphi and the StackOverflow 2022 Developer Survey
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This is the second year year Delphi is listed in the very large StackOverflow survey and results for the language are better than last year, even if mixed in some areas. … Read more
2 years ago
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Speaking at Italian Delphi Day 2022
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In two weeks, I’ll be giving a couple of sessions at the (online) Italian Delphi Day event, organized by Wintech Italia. … Read more
2 years ago
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Recently Released Delphi Patches and Plugins
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In case you’ve missed, Embarcadero had a few releases for Delphi last week: a new patch, Bookmarks and Navigator. … Read more
2 years ago
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The VCL LockDrawing method in TWinControl
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One of the features added to the VCL library in Delphi 11 is the ability to handle Windows WM_SETREDRAW message easily with two specific methods added to the TWinControl class: LockDrawing and UnlockDrawing … Read more
2 years ago
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Embarcadero Released InterBase 2020 Update 3
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Embarcadero has released a new version of its InterBase flagship database engine, InterBase 2020 Update 3, focused on the product’s quality and usability. … Read more
2 years ago
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RAD Studio 11.1 and Windows PE Security Flags
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Delphi and C++Builder in 11.1 enable by default a number of PE security flags for Windows applications, some of which were already available, but a bit hidden. … Read more
2 years ago
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Delphi 11.1 Released Yesterday
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Yesterday Embarcadero released the first updated of Delphi 11, with a large focus on quality and stability of the features introduced in the last version, starting with the High DPI IDE. … Read more
3 years ago
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The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Historical Article on C++ Builder Language Extensions
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To help celebrating C++Builder 25th anniversary, I’m republishing a very old article of mine on the C++ language extensions introduced by Borland back then. … Read more
3 years ago
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Delphi 27th Anniversary and WinUI 3 Demo
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Just a quick follow up on yesterday’s celebrations, announcements, and releases. … Read more
3 years ago
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Delphi’s 27th Anniversary Webinar
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Next Monday is Delphi’s 27th Anniversary and Embarcadero has organized a webinar to celebrate and to discuss the product status … Read more
3 years ago
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The Strange Case of the VCL Forms ClientWidth and the Windows Versions PE Flags
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Only a few developers are aware that Windows application behave differently depending on the Windows versions declared in their PE headers in the EXE file. This has some unexpected effects Delphi customers are reporting, due… … Read more
3 years ago
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My Year in Cities 2021
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Following a long tradition of this blog, dating back to 2006 (and continued in each of the following years), here is my year 2021 seen through the few cities I’ve been to, in this second… … Read more
3 years ago
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The Impact of Log4j on Software Development with Delphi and C++Builder
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Thoughts on the security issues of Log4j, what they imply for the developer community in general, and the specific effect on RAD Studio developers. … Read more
3 years ago
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Appercept AWS SDK for Delphi
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As announced yesterday, Embarcadero has started distributing a new AWS SDK for Delphi … Read more
3 years ago
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