Back in March 2014, I wrote a post on my blog about an EBNF parsing tool that I’d written, which generated HTML5 output containing railroad diagrams. Being quite a technical tool, on my rather obscure blog, I’d come to the conclusion that no one was using it. At some point in December last year, I
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I assembled this tracker over a year ago. As my blog post back then will have indicated, I did so in frustration having failed to produce a more elegant design on the mill. When I built this board, I really did just grab the components that I had to hand and assemble it on the
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An introduction to JSON and using it within RadStudio Delphi or C++ Builder. [UPDATE] For a more complete example of building a RESTful service client with Delphi, and a RESTful JSON service using PHP, check out my “Brutally Roll Your Own Backend” video series! What is JSON? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a popular format
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How to create a job for Jenkins Build Server which will build and execute a unit test application written using Delphi, and without using any Jenkins plugin. This should work with minimal alteration for C++ Builder too. Pre-requisits You should already have installed Embarcadero Delphi XE2 or newer onto your build server. (Tested on XE5
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Introduction to BaaS BaaS stands for Back-end As A Service. In software architecture the terms ‘Back End’ and ‘Front-End’ are used to describe different layers of a software solution. The back end layer of a solution is responsible for handling data, where as the front end is responsible for presenting that data to the end-user.
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A customer called our office recently saying that they could not make Rad Studio connect to a MySQL database, and that an internet search on how to do this had yielded no results. I’ve been using MySQL with Delphi for years, and so this is a situation I set out to remedy…. The problem… Lets
-> Continue reading Connecting RadStudio to MySQL with FireDAC
It can be advantageous to learn how to connect to a database through code alone for certain scenarios, server-side code for example, where a UI is not required. It’s also useful for separating your code (and therefore logic) from the UI, which is often a beneficial design practice. Before we take a look at how
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