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RADAuthenticator Part 2 - Generate one time password tokens in Delphi using TOTP

In part one of this blog post series on an upcoming multi-platform RADAuthenticator Delphi app, we went over base32 encoding which is used for managing the secret key in Google Authenticator compat...

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Base32 encoding in Delphi for an upcoming Google Authenticator replacement app - part 1 of series.

Programmers can be an odd lot - we can have a perfectly good tool available to us and we still yearn to build our own version of it. In this case, Google Authenticator was released back in 2010 and...

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New links and resource page for RAD Studio 11 Alexandria

Embarcadero has recently unleashed RAD Studio 11 Alexandria. It is certainly another historic release with great features including a massive amount of effort targeting a high quality IDE experienc...

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Delphi Programmers Discord server available

Earlier this year, I started a Slack workspace for Delphi programmers and it has slowly grown to over 300 members, but it currently sees little activity. More activity is seen on a daily basis on a...

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Quick fix for for RAD Studio 11 license failure during installation

License Fix RAD Studio 11 was just released today! For some users, you may have trouble getting RAD Studio installed due to license failures. One way of solving this issue was posted today on Twitt...

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Customize the RAD Studio 11 Welcome Page for single click activations

One of the features of RAD Studio 11 is a completely new Welcome Page screen. Embarcadero utilized a VCL designed screen instead of relying on browser-based content (as used in previous versions) m...

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Delphi Community Edition updated to 10.4.2

Great news out of Embarcadero today - the free RAD Studio Community Edition has been updated to the latest version of Delphi 10.4.2! There have been many requests for an updated Community Edition a...

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The end of RAD Studio 10.x named releases with version 11 coming soon

Embarcadero just announced a change in how they will name the next release of RAD Studio but first a little history of Delphi version numbering… based on my notes and memory Turbo Pascal 1.0 came o...

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Follow up patch for Delphi 10.4.2 released to address Try/Finally issue

A third patch is now available via GetIt for Delphi 10.4.2 which should address RSP-33117 which is an issue with Try/Finally under non-Windows platforms. As mentioned in a previous blog post, this ...

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Patch misfire - try/finally fix to be re-released

As posted in yesterday’s blog post, there were two patches released for a few critical bugs in Delphi 10.4.2. One bug fix was RSP-33117 which involves an issue with TRY/FINALLY when there was a RAI...