Delphi and its Visual Component Library (VCL) are known for its Rapid Application Development. You create a new project, drop a couple of components, change a few properties, and you already have a working mock application so that your peers have an idea what you will produce. Also, for tools that you need yourself,
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In my last blog post, I stepped on the toes of OOP-purists. I will try to make up for it… Without getting into the discussion of software architecture, class inheritance is one of the pillars of building object-oriented applications. It is still a mystery to me how one of the most popular programming languages of the 1990s called itself ‘object oriented’
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The headline says it all: An update for Delphi 10.3 Rio has been released. Embarcadero included a lot of new features. They introduce the ability to create desktop applications with FireMonkey for Linux and 64-Bit Mac OS. Back in the day, those were features worthy of releases and not just updates.
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A “Welcome Page” is rather common in modern IDEs so that developers can access projects that they use on a regular basis quickly. Furthermore, a lot of IDEs show dates for important events, news feeds or even video feeds.
I am very old fashioned when it comes to Delphi and want to focus on programming when using Delphi and do not want to be distracted by blog posts,
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