Author: Craig Chapman

2017-01-12

World First! A linux web service written in Delphi.

Several years ago, I wrote a simple command line tool for parsing EBNF format text (ISO-14977), and translating them into railroad diagrams. This little tool parsed the text and generated HTML output with a...

Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-12-29

Configure Delphi and RedHat or Ubuntu for Linux development.

One of the more exciting features of the pending 10.2 release of Delphi and RAD Studio, is support for targeting Linux. In this post, I’m going to step you through setting up your development...

C++ Builder / Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-12-08

Android with RAD Studio

I’d like to introduce you to Android development using RAD Studio. In this webinar session, I cover the installation of RAD Studio and some basic code examples from Hello World, to consuming a REST...

C++ Builder / Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-11-14

Invalid PLATFORM variable “HPV” or “MCD”

Recently, I’ve had a number of customers contact me asking about these error messages… [Error Error] Invalid PLATFORM variable “MCD” [Error Error] Invalid PLATFORM variable “HPV” I decided to write up a quick post...

C++ Builder / Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-09-23

Proud to be RAD.

I am entered into an interesting contest and I need your help! Recently I entered into a contest at Embarcadero to create a video and to achieve the highest number of views for that...

Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-08-22

Dialogs on Android. (Don’t brutally roll your own!)

Recently for my “Brutally Roll Your Own Backend” video series, I built a custom input dialog box for use on an Android device. As I was writing it I knew there must be something...

Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-08-14

Brutally Roll Your Own Backend – Part 21 – Final Part

Brutally Roll Your Own is a video series on building a PUSH enabled mobile application from scratch, using a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) server for the back end, and Delphi for the mobile app....

Delphi / Rad Studio

2016-08-14