Beside inline variable declarations, Delphi 10.3 is going to offer another new Object Pascal language extension, custom managed records

The coming 10.3 version of Delphi introduces a very handy feature to the language, local inline variables with local scope and type inference.

With the coming 10.3 release, RAD Studio R&D and PM teams are making Delphi's new directions in memory management official.  A few years back, when Embarcadero started building new Delphi compilers for platforms other than Windows there ...

What is AppAnalytics? A few years ago, Embarcadero introduced the AppAnalytics technology, a simple and effective way to add in-app analytics to VCL and FMX applications using ready-to-use components and a paid SaaS offering for the AppAnalytics backend. Since introducing the service,

Last week a (large) customer sent me an email indicating he was experiencing issues when compiling the same project on different machines. Turned out the difference was in the source code files format and the root cause was a unit

Delphi User Group Meeting, London A couple of weeks ago I was in London for personal reasons and teamed up with the UK Developers Group to attend their monthly meeting and talk about Delphi. I offered an introductory talk, some in depth

I haven't blogged much here in September, because I wrote two blog posts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts -- I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):

RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder come in 3 different editions: Professional, Enterprise and Architect. Until recently we also sold some of the Enterprise features as addons for the Professional version, but that has recently been discontinued. At the same time,

A Multi-Tier architecture separates the UI/Presentation, the application and business logic layer, the data access layers, and the database itself in separate applications, potentially running on different computers. In this blog post we’ll examine some of the key traits of

Delphi CE Bootcamp is an 8 week FREE instructional lecture covering many different areas of Delphi development and focused on new developers as well as existing ones. The series begins next week, and I'm the first instructor. Lectures will be posted

RAD Server is a powerful solution for building web services and modern multi tier applications, and as a backend for mobile applications. You can use RAD Server to publish your own REST APIs, like exposing database data or any other

Since last year, Embarcadero has teamed up with CData to offer easy to use FireDAC connectors for many web and cloud services, including data repositories, business services, social media and much more. These connectors are available at a flat fee

Embarcadero Updates Embarcadero released Delphi Community Edition, a great step to get the product back to students and hobbyist with support for mobile platforms in a free edition, for non-prossional developers. The release has been very well received and had

Embarcadero has just released RAD Studio Files Permissions Patch, applicable to all versions of RAD Studio 10, 10.1.x and 10.2.x installed using the GetIt web-based installer. The GetIt-based installers (up to but excluding RAD Studio 10.2.3 build 3231, made available in July

With this article the RAD Studio PM team is introducing an updated roadmap for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio. This August 2018 roadmap includes plans for the second part of this year and the key focus areas for next year.

Last week's webinar on RAD Server was well attended, which is great because we see increased interest in the RAD Server technology. We have great plans for it for the coming release! Watch the Webinar Replay The video of the webinar is

Over the last few months and the 10.2.x updates, RAD Server has been extended with several new features. But the technology also has several other advanced features we rarely discuss, because the typical one hour webinars we do are often only

The release of Delphi Community Edition is fantastic news for the Delphi language, the developer community, the partners, and the entire ecosystem. We hope it will help new developers (students, hobbyist, open source developers, and someone starting with mobile store

Last time we have talked about the importance of app architecture and layers of code. David went one step further and started to build user interface for our calculator apps. This week I'm going to catch up and we will

This is Part 3 of our five part “Learn to Program” series. In Part 2, we created “DelphiSuperCalculator” project and learned how to build, run and debug it.  Layers Before rushing into writing code it is a good thing to step back

In the first post we covered the installation of Delphi Community Edition. The best way to learn something is to start using it to build something useful, but not too complicated. Today we will start creating a “calculator” application that

This blog post is the beginning of the "Learn to Program in Delphi" series. We are expecting that you have some previous experience in programming, but not in Delphi. In this five part series we are going to take you

At times, RAD Studio GetIt-based web installer stops with some fairly vague error message. These can be due to connectivity issues, odd file system configurations, lack of disk space, an existing partial install, and other causes. But some of the

Embarcadero has just released a performance patch for the RAD Studio 10.2.3 version of RAD Server, our REST-based web service hosting architecture.  Getting The RAD Server Optimization Patch This patch is available at http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30838 and it includes a new set of binary files, for

IBLite is the local version of the InterBase database you can embed in your mobile and desktop applications. RAD Studio has full deployment support, so you can easily deploy the required file with your app, both for debug and for store deployment