A Farewell to Embarcadero.
Two days ago, a new meeting appeared in my work calendar from an Embarcadero VP, labeled as a “Catch-Up.” This is actually nothing too far outside the usual, as I have been working from...
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Why I’m now using both Git and Subversion for one project!
I’ve been using subversion for many years, and it has always served my needs well. When I decided to switch to GitHub for hosting my ‘DarkGlass’ project, I didn’t foresee the difficulties that I...
Media file meta-data on Android in Delphi.
One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.”...
A Birthday Present for Delphi at 23!
I decided to write an app to celebrate Delphi’s 23rd birthday and valentines day. Happy Birthday my beloved Delphi! (Best Viewed Full Screen, Source and binary downloads below). The binaries provided here are Debug...
Must Have RAD Accessories – InnoSetup
One of my favorite accessories for RAD Studio, InnoSetup! [Best viewed FullScreen, recorded 1080p]
Encode JSON to a FireDAC Memory Table without REST Request
At least twice this month I’ve been asked the question “Can I pass JSON to the TRESTDatasetAdapter component without binding it to a request?” and the short answer is no, you can’t. So what...
REST, You’re doing it wrong.
My wife recently expressed her frustration with the abundance of blog posts entitled ‘you’re doing it wrong’, or some approximation there-of; and so I could hardly resist writing one of my own! In...
Creating a Linux Daemon (service) in Delphi.
With the introduction of the Linux target for Delphi, a wide range of possibilities are opened up to Delphi developers, to create Linux server applications. Unfortunately there are currently a limited number of project...
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