26Jan 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

More Coding in Delphi Book Review

Book Reviews, Rad Studio Delphi Development
More Coding in Delphi Book Review Nick Hodges has released the latest additional to the Delphi world called "More Coding in Delphi".  The book is a pretty neat manual but more on the theory side then actual code.  There are samples in each chapter but this is not a typical technical manual that breaks down the syntax concerning Delphi.  The predecessor "Coding in Delphi" was very similar and could be considered part one that dives into object pascal aspects of Delphi. The Chapters are about 12 to 20 pages each and deals strongly in the object oriented Delphi or Object Pascal.  You can pick up both books together for a low cost at various web stores and they are a highly recommended book to pick up.  You can use the knowledge…
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25Jan 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Learning iBeacon Review by Craig Gilchrist Packt Publishing.

Book Reviews, Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Releases
  Learning iBeacon which was written by Craig Gilchrist is a solid technical manual that provides Objective-C / iOS source code that demonstrates various methods to interface with a iBeacon.  Now for folks that do not know what an iBeacon is, they are a small electronic that transmits a signal for an application that is attempting to locate the proximity of a person to where they currently are. Shown below, the iBeacon is no bigger then a quarter and can be placed anywhere within your store or location to send out a beacon to inform the user which area they are in.  Now the signal is just that, a signal your application does everything else.  So if I walk into a store and step by the shoe department, using the…
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30Sep 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Apple OS X El Capitan is being released today.

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Starting on September 30th, everybody will be able to install Apple's latest OS X update, El Capitan, on their Macs. It'll be free, and given that Apple claims its predecessor had "the fastest adoption ever" of any PC OS, it'll be popular too. El Capitan is the small one in Apple's big-then-small OS update cadence, which means that we have just a few core changes, a bunch of app updates, and a healthy pile of bug fixes. Major updates: Start-up will be faster. Split View which automatically will fill the screen with another application. Mission control has been vastly improved.  Windows will be in a single layer, no stacking and set up relative to each other. Spotlight is improved to quickly gather weather, stocks, sports faster. File searching is smoother…
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