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[UPDATE] For a complete example of building a RESTful JSON service client with Delphi, and a RESTful JSON service using PHP, check out my “Brutally Roll Your Own Backend” video series! Introduction For anyone expecting the next part of my sprites series, please excuse the delay. It’ll come, but work comes first! Today I’d like … Read more
With new users purchasing Delphi every single day, it’s not uncommon for me to meet users that are new to the Object Pascal language. One such new user contacted me recently with questions about reading and writing structured data to files on disk. In actual fact, this customer was quite specific about the file formats … Read more
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 answer. It turns out however, that I was wrong. I did what I expect anyone would do, I loaded a custom image … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more