When a customer called the office asking me to tell them how to deploy custom icons with their iOS application, I have to admit I had believed it to be a trivial question to...

  Having reverse engineered the old tracking board over the weekend, I connected up the GPS module and, after debugging minor issues on the serial port… GPS Input That’s right, I’m receiving GPS data...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...