I imagine most Delphi developers have written code similar to the following to quickly test a block of code using the Now function: procedure TDemoExecutionProfilerForm.DoSomeComplexCode; var St...

GitHub Actions is a powerful automation tool first introduced by GitHub back in 2018 and has significantly matured over the last few years. It can be leveraged to automate workflows based on even...

The 12th annual developer survey from Stack Overflow includes options to select Delphi and RAD Studio. This is a very popular survey within the developer community with over 80,000 developers parti...

As announced in an Embarcadero blog post, there is a new contest available to Delphi developers with a chance to win an Apple M1 Mac Mini. Skia is seemingly used everywhere (Google Chrome, Android...

Embarcadero has released the first update to RAD Studio 11 Alexandria on March 15th. I have seen a number of questions about this update and I wanted to post a quick blog entry to help address the ...

As the year is coming to a close, here is a quick look back at this year’s blog posts. There were twenty eight blog posts covering a wide variety of topics and below is a Word Cloud created from th...

TLDR; for 32-bit applications add this line to your DPR: {$SETPEOPTFLAGS $140} for 64-bit applications use: {$SETPEOPTFLAGS $160} {$SetPEFlags IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE} or, if you do no...

I was speaking with a colleague the other day who was working on a project which relied on the popular Delphi component trio: TRESTClient, TRESTRequest and TRESTResponse. He wanted to add a progres...

It the first two parts of this blog series, we covered some underlying technical code - first on base32 encoding and then in part-two we covered TOTP for one-time use password generation. In part 3...

GitHub introduced Vigilant mode in April of this year and the feature is still in Beta. The world is trying to become more secure and everyone is trying to catch up. You probably have seen the Veri...