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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion – not bad for a Delphi application!
Skype was written in Delphi which made it easy to download to users with any Windows machine without having to worry about users having to download MB’s of java or .NET support files. This ease of configuration from the net … Continue reading
Microsoft shows Windows 8 and all talk of HTML5 and none of .NET and Silverlight
Following my last post on Microsoft’s announcement that HTML5and javascript is now their preferred cross-platform development technology and apparently leaving .NET and Silverlight for only Windows and Mac development, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 this week and seems to be pushing … Continue reading
Where to now with rich client application development?
In the 1990’s, C/C++ and Java ruled the enterprise application world while Microsoft’s Visual Basic was a very limited Windows application tool, and we had Borland’s Delphi with its far more powerful architecture providing one of the best native Windows … Continue reading
Creating database agnostic and database engine agnostic applications in Delphi
Two major dilemmas arise with database application development: How to manage the different SQL dialects: whilst sticking to ANSI-SQL 92 syntax will help, particularly with table joins, data conversion or calculation routines and simple data elements such as current date … Continue reading
Running Delphi 6, Delphi 2007 and Borland Database Engine on 64 bit Windows 7
The Borland Database Engine (BDE) and Delphi versions prior to Delphi 2009 were created before 64 bit Windows 7 and thus the default installations need some tweaking to get them to run. I have created a page explaining the issues … Continue reading
SMS Texting from Delphi via RedCoal SMS SOAP Server
Many Australian companies use RedCoal SMS texting services to send SMS texts to mobile phones from computers. RedCoal supplies an API for its MIDA technology with VB and C++ examples but no Delphi code. I have created a Delphi demo … Continue reading
An approach to client server databases using Delphi
The following is an approach I have used successfully in robust 24×7 multi-user client server database applications using Delphi 6 and upwards and using either Sybase or MS SQL Server databases. This approach uses the traditional Delphi MIDAS TClientdataset-based approach … Continue reading
Embarcadero announces new Delphi roadmap
see here – view with IE as not all slides show in Firefox! Very brief summary of the revised roadmap as at August 2010: RAD Studio XE: coming late 2010 adds Delphi for PHP into the RAD Studio bundle latest … Continue reading
Delphi – migrating BDE app to DBX4
Migrating a sophisticated BDE-based database application to DBExpress is not as trivial as it is to migrate to an ADO-based application, but the benefits are substantial – single dll deployment, fast, and cross-platform capability (eg. Linux, Mac compatibility in Delphi … Continue reading
TIOBE Programming Community Index Feb 2010
The TIOBE Programming Community Index for Feb 2010 shows that the most popular programming languages are: Java (17% – strongly trending downwards from 26.5% in 2001 – seems governments are NOT interested in java solutions anymore) C (17% trending downwards … Continue reading