I first showed FMXER at EKON 23 and CodeRage 2019: a small framework to build FireMonkey screens the way Flutter does, composing small elements in code instead of designing every screen in the form designer. Version 1.1 came out in November 2022, with Skia4Delphi and Delphi 11 Alexandria… and then the project went quiet for […]
TFrameStand turned ten in November 2025. It started as a small idea, a way to show a TFrame in a FireMonkey application with a nice transition and almost no code, and over the years it has ended up in many apps, on every platform Delphi supports. This October it got the biggest update of its […]
In June 2017 I wrote about ScannerMApp, a small QR code and barcode scanner built with Delphi, ZXing.Delphi and TFrameStand. It was a sample: a way to show how TFrameStand turns a few frames into the views of a mobile app. Nine years, several Delphi versions and many Android versions later, it deserved more than […]
If you build data-centric applications with Delphi, there is a good chance your data access layer has a name: FireDAC, or one of the Devart data access components. With MARS-Curiosity 2.0 all of them lead to a REST server. Next to FireDAC, MARS now covers the Devart family: UniDAC, supported since 2019, is joined by […]
MARS-Curiosity 1.8 is out. Less than two weeks after 1.7.1, it brings a new way to install the library, takes the MCP support introduced in 1.7 one step further, and closes a long-standing gap in JWT handling. It also does some spring cleaning: Delphi 10.4 Sydney is now the minimum supported version. If you are […]
One week after MARS 1.7, here is 1.7.1: a small maintenance release that adds support for the newest Delphi and fixes three issues reported right after 1.7 shipped. Thanks to everyone who upgraded quickly and sent feedback. Delphi 13.2 support Embarcadero has just released Delphi 13.2 Florence and MARS supports it out of the box: […]
A year after 1.6, MARS-Curiosity 1.7 is out. It is the largest release in a long time: more than 225 commits, a brand new documentation site, several new demos and one headline feature that I am particularly excited about — native MCP server support, which lets AI agents such as Claude or ChatGPT discover and […]
In the previous post I introduced MCP support in MARS-Curiosity: expose Delphi methods and FireDAC data as tools that AI agents like Claude can discover and call, secured by roles and OAuth 2.1. Tools are the headline feature of MCP — but the protocol defines two more capabilities, and MARS now implements the full triad. […]
If you have been watching the AI agent space, you have probably come across MCP — the Model Context Protocol, the open standard that lets AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT and locally-run models discover and call tools exposed by a server. Hundreds of MCP servers already exist for filesystems, GitHub, databases, SaaS products of every […]
MARS-Curiosity keeps evolving, and this round of updates touches two very different areas: observability — with structured request/response logging designed for the Grafana stack — and AI-assisted development, with official Agent Skills that teach AI coding assistants how to build MARS servers properly. Request/response logging for Loki and Grafana If you run REST servers in […]