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 […]
One of the most frequent request I got over the years about my REST library for Embarcadero Delphi is to provide a proper documentation to the library. To mantain and to develop the library has always represented a pleasure but also quite time-consuming task. Unfortunately, I’ve always privileged adding features and improvements to the library […]
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 […]