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14Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Look ahead with Embarcadero and Delphi

Look ahead with Embarcadero and Delphi Embarcadero is hosting a webinar for customers that are on update subscriptions only concerning the next update as well as the anticipated release of Godzilla which will contain the ability to build Linux server applications with a single code base. Finally Embarcadero is heading in the right direction by giving a privileged webinar for yearly paying customers. The webinar will discuss the next update release for Berlin which is release update 2. The biggest piece is about Godzilla which a lot of developers have been wanting for the past few years. What Berlin Update 2 have ? Windows Desktop Bridge Integration Windows 10 VCL Calendar Control “Quick Edits” IDE enhancement C++ Refactoring and Compiler flags Enhanced - Latest Platform Support Enhanced - VCL and FMX Styles…

12Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Using Elevate Web Builder Book Review

Book Reviews

Using Elevate Web Builder Book Review 2nd edition by Erick Engelke Erick Engelke has written the first ever book about using the Elevate Web Builder product from Elevate Software. What is Elevate Web Builder ? Elevate Web Builder is a visual rapid application development environment for web applications. It is simple and easy to create beautiful web applications by simply dragging and dropping components on to forms, and then changing their appearance and behaviors as desired. EWB is written with Delphi Pascal as the driving force allowing software developers to quickly build a web based application using a great software language. Elevate Web Builder Book or on-line manual ? The book simply provides code samples along with a description for the section from using PHP, JavaScript, JSON, etc. It is a…

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…

12Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Microsoft ending TechRewards Learning Program

Microsoft Development

Microsoft Killing TechRewards Learning Program Microsoft will be ending its TechRewards learning program for developers and IT pros. In the business world this is just reducing overhead or fat from the budget. There are similar programs offered by Microsoft to all developers and IT staff. Developers the Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a better path since it does provide countless software tools and webinars on how to use a particular Microsoft tool. The Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a free program for anyone who wishes to join. The TechRewards program was small and is easily replace by the other programs offered by Microsoft. The TechRewards program formally will end on Jan. 6, 2017 and for the most part it is essentially defunct at the moment. As of Oct. 6, 2016, it's…

28Aug 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Delphi Boot Camp with 100% off Delphi

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software development Concepts, Software Events

Delphi Boot Camp with a free 100% off Delphi development tool. Embarcadero is pushing Delphi and C++ Builder during the 2 training weeks to gain market share. This comes prior to the Godzilla package that is on the horizon. Godzilla or Tokyo has been promised to include Linux server support. After taking the C++ Builder Boot Camp with the provided information it was an amazing enjoyable week. I am expecting the similar with the Delphi Boot Camp as well. The purpose of the boot camp is to demonstrate the Delphi language with the possible things that can be done on various platforms, the intention is to grow the Delphi developers base. Click on the image below which will take you to the web site for additional information as well as…