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by John Kouraklis · Published 10/05/2021
Introduction Starting with v.5.0, TMS Aurelius offers a filtering mechanism based on attributes. This means that instead of altering the criteria before they are passed to the object manager, we can now tag the...
by John Kouraklis · Published 23/08/2020 · Last modified 25/08/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 13/08/2020 · Last modified 23/08/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 08/03/2020
Introduction Memory management is one of the most important topics in software development. There are many schools of thought around the topic and all share a common denominator: memory management is crucial for stable...
by John Kouraklis · Published 10/01/2020 · Last modified 22/05/2020
Introduction The last ten months have been very interesting for me when it comes to coding. I have discovered the world of microservices and, from the first moment, it caught my eye. I...
by John Kouraklis · Published 08/12/2019
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 23/07/2019 · Last modified 23/08/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 01/02/2019
This article assumes you can add CentOS 7 as target platform in a Delphi project. If you want to know how to do this, please check this post. Introduction All the videos and tutorials...
by John Kouraklis · Published 31/01/2019 · Last modified 01/02/2019
Introduction In recent years, Embarcadero expanded Delphi to cover the Linux platform as target platform for projects. In this step, two distributions of Linux are supported: RedHat and Ubuntu. There are more than...
by John Kouraklis · Published 03/09/2017 · Last modified 06/01/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 09/01/2017 · Last modified 06/01/2020
In the first part, we developed the appropriate design for our application and the relevant classes to allow the use of Aurelius. In this part, we develop the main and customer screens. The Main Screen...
by John Kouraklis · Published 07/01/2017 · Last modified 06/01/2020
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern allows developers to write software in a way that separates applications to layers that serve the business logic, the presentation logic and the elements of the user interface. TMS Aurelius...
by John Kouraklis · Published 07/11/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2020
Hello everyone, finally my book is out. It is, already, available in electronic version and from today Amazon.com offers a paperback edition. In a couple of days, it will be available from Amazon.co.uk. You...
by John Kouraklis · Published 09/10/2016 · Last modified 19/07/2018
Over the years I have written (as all developers out there) a number of packages and components I use in my applications. Visual components need to be installed in the IDE and a reference...
by John Kouraklis · Published 24/09/2016 · Last modified 19/07/2018
Delphi has a well developed command line build process (via MSBuild) for Windows projects. After the introduction of FireMonkey, MSBuild was altered to allow users to build non-Win projects. After you build a project, if you...
