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 […]
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) […]
I’ve just pushed a few commits to MARS (https://github.com/andrea-magni/MARS) repository and there is a new feature in the library now. Nowadays, for a number of different reasons, you may find yourself trying to keep your endpoint’s URLs as short as possible. It is quite usual to see urls like https://youtu.be/[id], a shorter version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[id]. […]
The day has come: my book is now available on PacktPub (link) and Amazon (link US, link IT) websites. It has been pre-order only till today, since a couple of … years! 😉 It has been a long journey since I signed the contract with the editor to write this book. It was late 2017, […]
A friend recently started two open source projects I consider very interesting for the Delphi community. IconFontsImageList and SVGIconImageList projects, by Carlo Barazzetta (Ethea), are available on GitHub.com. They enable Delphi developers to make a huge step into modernization of their applications (VCL, even when using older Delphi versions and FMX) or their UI, including […]