29Jul 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

2017 Rad Studio (C++ Builder and Delphi) Developers Survey

Rad Studio Delphi Development
2017 Rad Studio Developers Survey The 2017 Embarcadero survey provides the latest information about the programming language Delphi.  The survey can be reviewed from Marco Cantu's web site Apparently all versions are still in use since the original design was built as a 32 bit compiler.  So in theory a developer using Delphi 1 can build an application for Windows 10 since it is 32 bit.   As time progresses the 32 bit application will disappear such as the 16 bit did. One super fact from the survey is that Berlin V10.1 is the most used and that is in thanks to their campaign. Windows application development is still strong since Delphi along with components can build an application in no time.  The next platform is Android which is bigger…
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14Feb 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Happy Birthday to Delphi at 22 years and counting

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Happy Birthday to Delphi at 22 years and counting Well with the next release, "Godzilla - Tokyo" currently in beta testing and getting prepared to support Linux servers, there is no better way then to shout out a happy birthday to Delphi. Delphi History Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal. Delphi added full object-orientation to the existing language, and since then the language has grown and supports many other modern language features, including generics and anonymous methods, as well as unusual features such as inbuilt string types and native COM support. Delphi and its C++ counterpart, C++Builder, share many core components, notably the IDE, the Visual Component Library (VCL), and much of the RTL, and are…
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16Dec 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Delphi is coming for Linux Servers

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software development Concepts
Delphi is coming for Linux Servers Embarcadero has announced that the next major release for the Delphi language will have Linux server support.  What this means to the developers using Delphi is that they can now create service applications for their Linux customers.  You have to take into account that 60 to 70 percent of web and databases reside on a Linux server since the cost is usually very low. Delphi can be used to create Windows applications, 32-bit or 64-bit, Mac and iOS applications, Android applications and now Linux.  One type of application that comes to mind is a Datasnap application that could be used to provide a secured method to extract data from a MYSQL database and using the REST API deliver the request in minutes. At the…
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15Dec 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Delphi Developer Days 2016 Baltimore

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Events
  Delphi Developer Days 2016 Baltimore [caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="770"][/caption]   The Delphi Developer Days 2016 which was held in Baltimore was a top notch 2 day knowledge fest that went over various aspects of the Delphi language.  As always Cary Jensen, Loy Anderson and Nick Hodges gave the utmost sessions to the attending group.  Each developer was able to interact with one another dealing with various issues they may have using the Delphi language. All in all each session was roughly an hour and dealt with debugging, programming methods and tools to impact daily Delphi programming.  The room was packed with programmers in the Northeast section of the United States that all came to Baltimore.  Baron Software once again attended as done in the release past and had a…
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12Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review Recently the decision was made to review Rave Reports by Nevrona to make a decision whether it would fit any type of long term application development.  The process took a little time to review the capabilities of what Rave Reports could do for any end user when compared to other report generators such as Fast Reports, Quick Reports or Report Builder. The final decision was to stay with Fast Reports due to the reasons listed below.  Rave Report does have some merit on why they could be your solution but after a very careful review it fell behind in quite a few necessary things.  These can be fixed but the current setting it seems that Nevrona will not implement any of them. Reasons for not using…
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