Author: John Kouraklis

JK-Books Only 10

Who could imagine?

Four years ago when I wrote my first book, I never expected to get so excited and keep writing pages and pages… 😀 Who would imagine? Here is what imagination looks like in this case...

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New Book: Delphi Quick Syntax Reference

The book offers a quick introduction to the Delphi language. In essence, it is a guide to get newcomers started in an easy and comprehensive way. To the experienced Delphi developers, it works as...

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COVID-19 Numerology

I have previously argued about the unconvincing and unsettling approach of politicians and scientists to the pandemic (here). This time I am looking at the reported numbers around COVID-19 because the evaluation of the...

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Chasing Memory Leaks with Deleaker for Delphi

Contents1 Introduction2 DeLeaker3 Using Deleaker4 Useful Features4.1 Changes to the Source Code4.2 Filtering and Exporting4.3 Snapshots4.4 Resource Usage Graph4.5 Client API5 Conclusion Introduction Memory management is one of the most important topics in software...

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Microservices in Delphi – Part 1

  Contents1 Introduction2 Microservices3 Pimlico4 Local Microservices4.1 Adding a Customer4.2 Updating a Customer4.3 Getting the List of Customers4.4 Deleting a Customer5 Unit Tests6 (Unexpected but Pleasant) Use of Local Services6.1 Internationalisation (Translations)6.2 Plugins6.2.1 Open-source6.2.2...

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TMS Training Days 2019 – Aftermath

I attended the TMS training day this year and I must say I am thrilled with the content of the training, the people I met and all the discussion I had with professionals from...

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doyenist: my personal project grows to business

Hi there, It’s been a while I’ve been working on doyenist, a solution to track student attendance via a mobile application.  I have now decided to focus on this project on full time basis...

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TMS Training Days 2019

TMS organises training days in November 2019. I think it is going to be an amazing event where participants will have the opportunity to meet the people behind TMS’ products and, also, receive extensive...

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New Book: Introducing Delphi ORM

I would like to share with you that my new book has reached the production stage and will be available in September by Apress. The book is about Object Relational Mapping in Delphi and explores...

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Delphi and CentOS 7

  Contents1 Introduction2 CentOS 73 SDK Manager4 Fixing the Folders Introduction In recent years, Embarcadero expanded Delphi to cover the Linux platform as target platform for projects. In this step, two distributions of Linux...

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Delphi Event Bus and MVVM

Daniele Spinetti had a session in the last ITDevCon about how to use his Delphi Event Bus to implement the MVVM pattern. Check the details and have a look at Delphi Event Bus. I, also, like...

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Moving Atlassian Bitbucket Server to a new computer

I run my own instance of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and I, recently, had to move Bitbucket to a new computer. Actually, I moved from a macOS based machine to a Windows 10 computer. Unfortunately,...