Craig Chapman (37)
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 related products. Web Broker has been in Rad Studio since the…
Continue reading...Windows Media Player in Delphi
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 to a decreasing number of compatible codecs, it is becoming difficult…
Continue reading...Configure Delphi and RedHat or Ubuntu for Linux development.
Image courtesy of Jim McKeeth. 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 environment to deploy applications to either…
Continue reading...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 not quite right about what I was doing, because I had…
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