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PowerShell script to install PostgreSQL on Windows using the binary release zipfile

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular database solutions in the world. A few years back, I published a blog post full of PostgreSQL links and general information which includes links for the vario...

Feb 03, 2024 Tooling, Database

RADAuthenticator Part 5 - Implement a "Hello World" GitHub Action on your self-hosted runner

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...

Jul 30, 2022 Delphi Programming, Example Code

RADAuthenticator Part 4 - Build Automation with Delphi and GitHub by Installing a Self-hosted Runner

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...

Dec 05, 2021 Tooling, Automation

Getting started with CI/CD using Delphi and Jenkins on Windows

Many Delphi programmers are working on “legacy code” which has little or no tests and is often built and deployed manually. Unfortunately, many Delphi developers are stuck in this rut and could gre...

Jan 13, 2021 Tooling, Automation