Join myself and Jim McKeeth tomorrow for our Delphi Linux Bootcamp, in which we’ll cover the setup of a development environment for building Linux applications with Delphi. We’ll look at hello world, debugging linux applications, deploying apache2 modules using WebBroker, and accessing a MySQL database using FireDAC. The penguins are coming, be prepared! Register Here https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/delphi-linux-boot-camp … Read more

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 90’s and is a great technology for building middle-ware, let … Read more

Under Windows 7, the familiar task bar underwent something of an overhaul. Tasks which once represented the title bar of an application were replaced with icons, each of which supports application previews, progress indicators, and overlay icons to provide additional information about the state of the application. In this post, I’d like to show you … Read more

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 to maintain. There is however an alternative component for Windows, … Read more

Several years ago, I wrote a simple command line tool for parsing EBNF format text (ISO-14977), and translating them into railroad diagrams. This little tool parsed the text and generated HTML output with a canvas control set to render the diagram. I had thought that this tool was too specialist for anyone to be using … Read more

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 RedHat Enterprise or Ubuntu 16.04. From here in I’ll refer to RAD Studio, Delphi and … Read more

Recently, I’ve had a number of customers contact me asking about these error messages… [Error Error] Invalid PLATFORM variable “MCD” [Error Error] Invalid PLATFORM variable “HPV” I decided to write up a quick post on the cause and resolution for these errors. If you’re seeing either of these error messages while trying to build a … Read more

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 to use “Application.ProcessMessages()” which is about as close as you … Read more