What’s new Since last release (v.1.6.3, April 2026) I’ve added a number of new functionalities to MARS and I also tried to build a few demos around them. Apart from this, a few critical bugs and issues have been addressed in this release. Let’s have a look at the most important changes. Bug fixing some […]
CentroSoftware Academy initiative, at least for the part I was involved as a Delphi trainer, has come to an end. Topic list was broad including introduction to Delphi and IDE, object pascal language, GUI, data access, parallel programming, SOLID principles, code quality, Delphi as a modern language, modern architectures, REST and networking. In many ways, […]
This week Embarcadero released KAI, a new product/plugin that adds agentic AI integration within the Delphi IDE. I recorded a short video (2 min) using KAI (+Copilot+GPT5.4) to prompt for a MARS-related task and the result is satisfying: the AI produced good code (using most of advanced MARS features about database access, record type handling, […]
Embarcadero Technologies released Delphi 13 Florence (the new major version of Delphi and RAD Studio) yesterday, September 10th, 2025. Thanks to the contribution to MARS open source project by Carlo Barazzetta, MARS has now an updated installer supporting Delphi 13 so I’ve decided to release a new version of MARS-Curiosity REST Library: v.1.6. MARS Version […]
Basic error signaling in REST API are usually driven by HTTP status codes (eventually also using the HTTP reason field, even if its purpose is tied to CORS implementation). This is generally handled causing an exception in http client libraries (like MARS Client Library, Indy, REST Client library and others). However, it is not uncommon […]
I am happy to revive my blog to share some (good) news! After a quite long period I focused on “less public” work (as developer and consultant), I am trying to get back to developer conferences. Even if logistics and time availability are quite a challenge, for a number of reasons, I strongly believe to […]
Workshop in Denmark On September 13th and 14th I had the pleasure to be the speaker at DAPUG workshop in Denmark. Topics included my open source libraries MARS (REST library) and FMXER (FMX visual framework). I’ve been happy to had a chance to share some time with other developers from different countries (including Denmark, Finland […]
Giovedì 16 Dicembre 2021ho tenuto un webinar per OSItalia. Il tema era lo sviluppo di un (semplice) client mobile per i servizi REST relativi alla fatturazione elettronica forniti da OSItalia stessa. L’intervento seguiva un altro webinar tenuto da David Lastrucci relativo alle API sottostanti. Ho deciso di usare il mio framework FMXER (disponibile gratuitamente su […]
Yesterday a customer asked me about customizing the FMX dropdown in order to make it consistent with the rest of UI. Specifically, we were trying to change the background of the dropdown list to a semitransparent color. Even if this sounded trivial to me at first, it turned out to be a little tricky, hence […]
Since legal invoicing became mandatory for every company in Italy (2019) many Italian people had to start handling XML files containing invoice data. Many viewers are already available to browse invoice files yet still the activity may become very time-consuming and far from trivial for the regular user. In particular, some people (accountants or managers) […]