On SoA and SOAP and REST with WebBroker
There has been a lot of talk from Embarcadero recently, regarding their RAD Server product, which is an excellent product, but today I’d like to discuss a far older technology included with RadStudio and...
Author: Craig Chapman
Task-Bar Icons in Delphi
Under Windows 7, the familiar task bar underwent something of an overhaul. Tasks which once represented the title bar of an application were replaced with icons, each of which supports application previews, progress indicators,...
Add Windows Media Player to your Delphi Applications.
Delphi ships with a component ‘TMediaPlayer’ for playing media files such as video and audio. This component remains in Delphi for the sake of compatibility with older versions, but is quite out-dated and, due...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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