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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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 21/05/2020 · Last modified 23/08/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 04/05/2020 · Last modified 16/07/2020
Who is responsible for the mess we are going through? In my view the scientists, of course. Let me clarify. I hold the scientists (not science) who advise politicians responsible for the impact the...
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 23/09/2019 · Last modified 10/01/2020
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...
by John Kouraklis · Published 10/09/2019 · Last modified 23/09/2019
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...
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 18/03/2018 · Last modified 06/01/2020
…or how to f(***)inish your mobile in 10 seconds Here I am sitting at my desk with my new LeEco Max 2 (x820) in front of me. Nice design, good quality, great screen, even...
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 20/03/2017 · Last modified 29/08/2018
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,...
by John Kouraklis · Published 05/03/2017 · Last modified 19/07/2018
I, always, wanted to learn more about relational databases but never put the time to read all the technical stuff. Fortunately, Christophe Kalenzaga had done a tremendous work into putting things together in this great article. Check...