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Deep Delphi Discussions Everyone knows Delphi is the best Rapid Application Development tool. Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio set the standard that everyone else is still trying to follow. Nothing will get you to market quicker with a great native experience for your users. Delphi is also a top choice for large, long lived, and complex applications. Many of these are line of business applications that automate the internal operations of so many companies. I’ve worked on or seen a few of these large scale line of bu...
鉄道ファンの心をくすぐる事例を2つ紹介 この記事は、ITmediaのオルタナティブブログに掲載された記事の転載です。 Delphiといえばネイティブ。CPUで直接実行でき、特別なランタイムが要らないというのは、ファーストバージョンが発売された22年前から変わらず、今はその特徴がモバイルを含むマルチデバイスに展開されているが、その特徴を活かした開発事例は、やはり制御系やグラフィック系が分かりやすい。 ちょうど最近、その分野の事例がドイツから紹介された。いずれも鉄道関連だ。 その1:ミニチュア ワンダーランド ハンブルクの有名なジオラマワールドらしい。残念ながら訪問したことはないが、「ミニチュアワンダーランド」でググるとお薦め観光スポットとして方々で紹介されている。鉄道、自動車、船舶、飛行機合わせて26万個以上の模型が昼夜1日のサイクル(15分とのこと)で動くとのこと。これらの制御に使われているのがDelphi。 その2:3D Train Studio Nゲージとかで、精巧な鉄道ジオラマを作りたい。でも場所もないし...。という肩身の狭い鉄道模型ファンをバーチャルな世界で救うのがこれ。仮想空間にレ...

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Cool App Contender: SoundJuke You’ve probably been at a restaurant and knew music was playing in the background but, not the music you wanted to hear. So, you just tuned it out rather than listen to it. Well, SoundJuke from Trend Music is a game changer in that regard. It puts full control over the music you hear on a dashboard hosted on your smartphone. You can compose a personal playlist through SoundJuke or use one of the standard playlists that the app shows. These prepared playlists are updated periodically, so you’re n...

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Cool App Contender: Evolutio eRefer The healthcare delivery system worldwide is turning to the web and its technologies to deliver more cost-effective and patient-centered care. Evolutio Care Innovations Ltd offer a cost effective referral management gateway (‘eRefer’) with central administrative support (‘ecare’) and managed clinical networks for patients with common ophthalmology conditions.   eRefer allows clinicians to refer patients to Evolutio electronically. It gives you the ability to see exactly where your patient ...

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Cool App Contender: RAD and Installer We truly appreciate our developer community and the people at unSigned are an excellent example of why. RAD and Installer is a RAD Studio extension for creating NSIS and Inno Setup installers. It integrates NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) and Inno Setup with Embarcadero RAD Studio IDE and allows you to set up and build NSIS and Inno Setup projects right within RAD Studio getting all benefits of the common integrated environment!   unSigned has created a unique app that is bui...

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Cool App Contender: Change-Pro for Excel How long do you spend looking for changes in an Excel spreadsheet? Compare in seconds! If you only spend an hour a day (220 hours/year) on reviewing and modifying Excel spreadsheets, Change-Pro for Excel will save you 50% –75% of your time. Be more productive and deliver greater value.  Reduce your frustration of never being sure that you know exactly what you’re looking at with the document in front of you. Litera has created a unique app that is built using Embarcadero technology that inc...

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Cool App Contender: Preschool It doesn’t matter where you live in this complex world but, when your child is ready for preschool, the fears and sense of discomfort overwhelm every parent at some point. How do you know what your child is being taught? Is what your child being taught the right thing in your mind? The people at Cube Development think it’s vital for South African preschoolers and their parents to have answers to their questions and a way of tracking the activities in the classroom. Preschool Link developed ...

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Cool App Contender: Petra Images, resolution problems, sizing … the entire idea of loading up WordPress with a blog post and having to fiddle with the resolution challenges give me a headache. The good news is that there are entrepreneurs out there, like the people at Applying Code,  that feel your pain just as Embarcadero does when it comes to providing a development platform for building apps just like Petra.  Petra is a MacOS App that converts Sketch App drawings into Native "Pascal" drawing code for...

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Cool App Contender: Bank Fadaile Bank Fadaile is an Android app dedicated to using the power of mobility in bypassing the use of traditional browser search methods and connecting the mobile phone holder directly with different websites via API integration. It was submitted to the Embarcadero Cool Apps Contest as a contender. The Bank Fadaile mobile app is under development by Fadaile Abalrhman using Embarcadero’s C++ Builder development tool as a means to help his fellow university students to access electronic payment service...

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Cool App Contender: FontCreator I’ve always been a stickler for details in my work. The appearance and design of fonts are one of my pet peeves, especially when I’m doing web page work. Many times, the standard fonts just don’t work for me, and I get the itch to make some modifications to meet my expectations. The FontCreator tool from High-Logic provides me with an intuitive user interface and straightforward means to modify or design any font to suit my needs. The app is built using Embarcadero’s Delphi and was submitte...

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