JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens and it is a very popular technology used to implement custom-content tokens across REST services. Even if it is generally much over-rated and have its own drawbacks (especially when dealing with security), it is becoming something like a de facto standard for Web and REST applications authorization/authorization mechanisms. […]
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 […]
This blog has been a bit quiet since last few weeks and the reason is I am a bit overloaded these times. I am very happy to have had the opportunity to meet a lot of Delphi developers all over the Europe since I was speaking at The LAB event in Eindhoven (September, 19th), I […]
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 […]
The process of migrating your existing console applications to the Linux platform (recently added with Delphi 10.2 Tokyo) begins adding the new “64-bit Linux” platform to the “Target Platforms” of your project. Generally, everything goes smooth and you simply have to select “64-bit Linux” from the combobox in the “Select platform” dialog. If you can’t […]
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 […]
I am very happy to introduce you to SDriver, a new open source project I am working on since a while (formerly named SlackDriver but I noticed that name would have infringed Slack Brand Guidelines and I changed to SDriver). It is an simple Delphi wrapper for (some of) Slack APIs. What is Slack Slack […]