Welcome to the last episode in the "Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition" series. In the first four episodes we have covered "Introduction and Installation" of the free Delphi Community Edition, then we moved to IDE basics in "Building in Debugging". In "Architecture and Layers of Code" the key concepts of proper app structure were discussed and in the last episode we have started "Designing User Interfaces". Application Logic In the previous episode we have created the calculator pr...

A Techstars Startup Weekend event was held between November 17 and November 19, 2017 in Bakersfield, California. The Startup Weekend events are about bringing together entrepreneurs for meeting new people, building, and launching new products in a hackathon environment. I attended the event and took part as a competitor. At Startup Weekend ideas are purposed and then teams are formed around the ideas. The teams have 54 hours to build out their idea and the best execution...

Last week, in the Part 1 of this blog post we have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server-edition into a VMWare Fusion virtual machine running on Mac. Now we are going to complete the configuration of the Ubuntu server, install all the prerequisites for deploying Delphi application and deploy "Hello World" Delphi app using the latest Delphi 10.2 Tokyo beta, as the product has not yet been released. This means that anything that I'm describing here might change in the final version of Delphi...

Did you knows that tight coupling is bad for code? Join Nick Hodges as he takes a deep dive into what Connascence is -- a taxonomy for measuring coupling.  In this webinar, you'll discover how to measure coupling and how to reduce it in your applications. Reducing coupling is an important step towards making your application more testable, reducing bugs, and supporting the best practices that power agile development. Nick Hodges has been a part of the Delphi community from the very be...

Edited: The webinar recording is available on YouTube. Enjoy! ====================================== Whether you are building Windows VCL application or next generation FireMonkey cross-platform apps, you can supercharge your developer toolbox with RAD Studio Bonus Pack! Register now for free technical 1-hour developer webinar on September 21st, 11am CEST, where you can learn about massive benefits of current promotion that is valid only until the end of September. Buy or upgrade to Del...

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It was great fun to do the Object Pascal developer webinar this week, but I have already started to prepare for the next on deploying RAD Server services implemented into Amazon Web Services cloud! RAD Server is your turn-key solution for implementing REST APIs services with Delphi and C++Builder. In this practical, demo-oriented session we are going to see how to create RAD Server scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available deployments in the cloud. I'm going to dem...

As promised during the webinar here are the downloads: Source code for demo projects Webinar recording Enjoy! ===== In just two days I will be presenting the Wednesday EMEA Developer Webinar where I'm going to focus on Object Pascal programming language used in Delphi. Mind Your Language! Join us for a webinar on Aug 17, 2016 at 11:00 AM CEST.  The Object Pascal language used in Delphi is constantly evolving. With every new version of Delphi there are smaller and bigge...

I'm back from one week of trekking in beautiful Beskid Śląski mountains in Poland with my batteries fully recharged. I find doing webinars for Delphi developers a specially fun thing, so why not to schedule some for coming weeks? To keep it simple I'm going to standardise on 60 minutes sessions on Wednesdays starting at 11AM Amsterdam time (10AM UK). All webinars will be followed by a live Q&A sessions. If you have time and feel like hopefully learning something new, please register to my w...

Continuando con la entrada anterior del blog, donde hablaba de cómo acceder a las propiedades de audio de un dispositivo Android; La idea de esta entrada es avanzar un poco más en el tema y generar una aplicación que nos permita gestionar varios perfiles de audio en nuestro dispositivo. Una vez que vimos cómo acceder a la información del volumen actual, lo siguiente que nos interesa es poder almacenar diferentes perfiles, de forma que podamos seleccionar uno de los perfiles y con...