Christmas time is very close and pretty much means the 2018 work year is more or less to the end. Here in Italy, most of us still have something to deal with about electronic invoicing that is becoming a legal requirement starting January, 1st. Apart from this, I’m done with customers for a couple of […]
The Delphi Community Edition Bootcamp on EmbarcaderoAcademy.com started on September 3rd and will last 8 weeks. It is a great initiative with many outstanding authors giving free lessons over the Delphi product to celebrate the new Community Edition. The first week, focused on the language, was given by the best possible author: Marco Cantù, Embarcadero […]
In April, I had the pleasure to be a speaker at two great Delphi events: the 25th DAPUG meeting, in Denmark the 2018 edition of Delphi Code Camp, in Germany I love to meet Delphi developers at conferences and in-person meetings as I always come back with a lot of hints, tips and interesting case […]
Hope you all had a great start of the year! 🙂 One frequent suggestion I got from developers willing to use MARS REST library is to make it as easier as possible to start from scratch. These latest weeks I tried to follow this suggestion and tried to simplify some aspects here and there, for […]
As I mentioned in the prior blog post, the “Delphi and ExtJS” event, held in Milan on last October 26th, has been a success. When I first had a contact with Ibuildings Italia, the Sencha reseller partner in Italy, we thought it could have been a nice idea to provide a free public event to […]
It is plenty out there of barcode/QR code scanner apps (both on Android Play Store and Apple AppStore [and iOS 11 include native code scanner in the camera app]) so it may seem there is no need to build a new one but this is not true! In this blog post I will describe how […]
I am very happy to announce a new version (v1.3) of TFrameStand is now available both on GitHub and on GetIt (Embarcadero’s Package Manager). The new feature list is not huge (I still wish to evolve more this project but time is limited): Added OnAfterHide event Widened binding of common action mechanism to address all TControl […]
I know, everybody is looking at the new Linux support in Delphi 10.2 Tokyo but I think this post has to come before the one about Linux support for MARS-Curiosity (spoiler: a penguin has been spotted on MARS 🙂 ). On February, 18th I released v1.1 of MARS-Curiosity library and started adding a bunch of new […]
Embarcadero has a contest for a T-shirt about the next Delphi release (10.2) so here is my entry! A brief explanation (even if it is quite obvious, I think): on the front of the T-shirt you can see a typical Linux command to launch Delphi on Linux and on the back there’s an emperor (nothing less 😉 ) […]
One of the key aspect I wanted to achieve while designing the MARS-Curiosity REST library was not to tie the developer to a specific implementation or library used in MARS-Curiosity. For example, one may want to use a specific ORM / DAC library / JSON library for many different reasons (like performance, functionalities, uniformity with […]