Michael Riley
I’ve made a commitment to learn FireMonkey. My flagship software product, Zilch Standard, turned 30 years old in 2021 and I still don’t have a macOS version. I’ve got macOS consumers who buy my Windows® software… – Details…
1 week ago in dockwiki, FireMonkey0
Michael Riley
I just watched the “What’s New with 10.4.2” Embarcadero video. It sounds like there was a lot of quality code fixes put in place. One thing that surprised me is the ability to open the… – Details…
3 weeks ago in Delphi0
Michael Riley
Once upon a time there was an enthusiastic, ambitious, twenty-seven year old man who spent sixty dollars on a two-inch thick book with a funny looking floppy-disk measuring exactly five-and-a-quarter inches tucked in the back…. – Details…
3 months ago 0
Michael Riley
Here is a link to a web page I found that lists applications built with Delphi.https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_DelphiThe best part about this site… you can add your own software if it’s not listed. It comes with a… – Details…
9 months ago in Delphi0
Michael Riley
I finally purchased Camtasia a couple weeks ago so I could create videos in support the upgrade I’m doing of my Zilch Standard software. This is just an interim upgrade that I’m doing using an… – Details…
10 months ago in camtasia, cheat-sheet, lynda, youtube0
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… – Details…
12 months ago 0
Michael Riley
This weekend I had a bunch of data inside a FireDAC FDMemtable and I wanted to play around with that data in Excel. So, the first thing I did was review which data formats Excel… – Details…
12 months ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of upgrading a very old Delphi program that I wrote with my Turbo Pascal, top-down, structured-programming, mindset. One of the major updates I want is for the data to be in… – Details…
1 year ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I was watching an excellent video on how to use the batch move capabilities within Delphi to import text data into a database and had one of those “What the heck just happened” moments. The… – Details…
1 year ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’ve been exploring SQLite within Delphi. There are several sample SQLite applications that come with Delphi if you selected to install the samples during setup. I’ve put together the list of SQLite samples that are… – Details…
1 year ago in SQLite0
Michael Riley
I’m creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: Album, Test, and World. So I added a TComboBox and populated the… – Details…
1 year ago in Source Code, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I am not a full-time Delphi guy. So, when I’m learning Delphi by reading OPC (other people’s code) I want to make the best of my time. I was studying some code from Cary Jensen… – Details…
1 year ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I have been creating database applications for over 30 years. Unfortunately, I have never been able to create a single database application in Delphi. That’s a very sad fact. One that I’m not very proud… – Details…
1 year ago in database-application, delphi-revisited, delphi25th0
Michael Riley
I’ve been in a rut for about the past six months. Not just a Delphi programming rut but a “life rut”. What’s worse, I knew I was in a rut and thought I was trying… – Details…
1 year ago in fmxexpress, github, kanban0