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Moving DNS, Some Hiccups Expected
Not much to add. I'm (finally) changing my registrar and DNS provider. Hope everything goes smootly, but it might be that the site and blog are not working in the few coming days. The physical server...
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VIDEO TUTORIAL #4/#5: FireDAC Fetching, Monitor / Neue VCL Komponenten
Hier, nach einiger Zeit, mal wieder zwei weitere Video Tutorials Video Tutorial #4: FireDAC Monitor & FireDAC Fetching [YoutubeButton url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEM3Vx9SFk'] Video...
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My Year in Cities 2017
This is my end-of-the-year blog post listing places I've visited in 2017 for at least one night (plus some relevant daily trips, marked with an asterisk), in chronological order. At times, the reason...
View ArticleExperimenting with Neural Networks – Part 8
Best viewed full screen (recorded 1080p) http://chapmanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ANNS-8.mp4
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HTTP Protocol Related Improvements in Delphi 10.2.2
The new features for the HTTP client library offer more flexibility and options in terms of protocol and standards support. Better Secure Protocols Support The first change is the improved support for...
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HTTP Protocol Related Improvements in Delphi 10.2.2
The new features for the HTTP client library offer more flexibility and options in terms of protocol and standards support. Better Secure Protocols Support The first change is the improved support for...
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Upgrade Produkte werden zum Ende März 2018 eingestellt
Hier eine interessante Nachricht von Ananas Popov (dem General Manager von Embarcadero) in deutscher Sprache...
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Try-Finally Blocks for Protecting Multiple Resources in Delphi
The Delphi language shares with many others a standard resource allocation pattern to make sure that in case of an exception the resources is properly released. Resources in this context are memory...
View ArticleCreating custom TEdit styles with the FireMonkey Style Designer
This tutorial outlines the steps for creating and customizing a new FireMonkey style element and applying the newly created style to your FireMonkey application. This tutorial focuses on deploying the...
View ArticleFeeding a HTML report dashboard from a Delphi application.
In this video, an overview of a reporting system fed from a Delphi application. Best Viewed full-screen. http://chapmanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HTMLDashboards.mp4
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My New RTTI in Delphi Class on Embarcadero Academy
As you might remember, I'm helping building the Delphi curricula on the Embarcadero Academy web site. My focus so far has been on the Delphi language, while other tackle VCL and other areas, or other...
View ArticleLockless Multi-Threading in Delphi
In this video, I demonstrate a technique for communicating between threads in a Delphi application, without using typical locking mechanisms such as critical sections. Best Viewed in Full Screen...
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The Ultimate Developer Keyboard?
I never really thought of my keyboard as an important accessory, but rather, as that essential item that you buy for the cheapest price possible and be done with. I mean, a keyboard is a keyboard...
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Exciting RAD Studio Developments in 2018
We have many exciting new features and product enhancements planned for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio in 2018. In our September 2017 roadmap, we covered many of the new plans and features planned...
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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)....
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Delphi 23 and Delphi 10.2.3
Today is Delphi's 23rd birthday. The product was launched on Valentine day in 1995 in San Francisco (and I had the luck to be there, as I covered in the past). 23 years is a lot of time for people. It...
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RAD Studio 10.2.2 Tokyo February 2018 Patch Re-Released
Last week, Embarcadero released a patch for Tokyo 10.2.2, focused on Android and RTL improvements. What happened is that Windows would not always ask for execution with admin account (on systems with...
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Running a Delphi Linux Application on Google Cloud Shell
Google has made available to all its Gmail users a Linux Shell to interact with their Cloud Services, called Google Cloud Shell. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with 5Gb of storage. It is not a VM...
View ArticleDelphi PodCast – Favorite Coding Books
As many of you may already be aware, I am now a regular guest on Jim McKeeth’s Delphi podcast along side David Millington. The pod-casts recently became video streamed, and have adopted a more...
View ArticleDelphi PodCast – Delphi Game Engines
In case you missed it, here’s the Delphi podcast for Feb 27th 2018 – Delphi Game Engines (skip to about 9:30 to spare yourself the technical difficulties with the stream)
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