I am working hard on my next book in the Hands-On series which will be about TMS FNC Maps. While writing, I noticed a data set on Kaggle that contains information on all reported traffic accidents in the United States since 2016 (https://www.kaggle.com/sobhanmoosavi/us-accidents). I imported the data into a SQLite database and implemented an app that visualizes the reports of a day.
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JSON has become the common format to store structured information in text files. Further, web services tend to return JSON these days. XML seems to have lost the battle as it generates too much meta-information nobody needs. In addition, developers hardly need the validation of XML documents which is not possible to implement using JSON.
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Data access has always been the number one feature that distinguished Delphi from another development environments. Still, in recent years there has been some criticism that Delphi has not kept up. Since the integration of AnyDAC as FireDAC a few years ago, the situation has changed again.
FireDAC is one of the best data-access frameworks and it has become part of Delphi.
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I just finished recording my two sessions for CodeRage Germany:
Example for a multi-platform Delphi component
Both sessions are in German and I can honestly say that the virtual concept of conferences might never grow on me.
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