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 is the problem we’re trying to solve, and how can we go about it? The Problem The TRESTDatasetAdapter takes JSON data … Read more
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 this post I’d like to take a look at REST, and how it’s being used, or perhaps misused. Just to be … Read more
Recently I wrote a blog post on using the fork() instruction to create a Daemon under Linux with Delphi. In that post, the Daemon which is created does nothing but enter into an infinite loop. For a recent webinar, I expand on this technique to turn a WebBroker application into a Daemon. For those of … Read more
During one of my webinars this morning on migrating services from windows to Linux, a question was raised about how to import libraries to Delphi. In this post I’d like to explain what I’d done in that webinar in more detail, and show you how you can import code from external libraries into your Delphi … Read more
One of the great features of Linux is that you can do just about anything from the command line. If we’re able to gain access to command line instructions from our Delphi applications, this will give us a very powerful API for the system. In this video I’m going to show you how to access … Read more
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 types available from the RAD Studio IDE, and those do not include creating a service (or Daemon as it’s called in … Read more
Last week I posted a tip on my blog, on organizing product dependencies in your Delphi projects for Windows. This week I’ll be giving you a cross platform alternative to that technique, and giving you a free component to make it possible. Introducing FormResource [Note, see comments for some known bugs in the FormResource component] … Read more
RAD Studio has been around for a very long time, and continues to see new feature development. Consequently, it’s sometimes easy to forget some of the great features that have been included in the product for several years. This happened to me recently and so I wanted to share with you a reminder of one of … Read more
