The latest major version of Delphi was released on November 7, 2023. This has been another huge effort towards quality improvements with over 1,200 customer-reported Quality Portal issues closed w...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

I am quite thrilled with the latest 10.4.2 release of Delphi as there is a lot to love in this new version! However, there are some stumbling blocks which I wanted to document in a quick blog post ...

Last year I posted about the cool new inline variable feature of Delphi and referenced the upcoming LSP-based Code Insight in 10.4 and in a tongue-in-cheek manner I stated that Error Insight “Shall...

Embarcadero has scheduled a webinar for What’s Coming in Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10.4.2 Sydney. To help scheduling issues with the worldwide audience, three different time slots are avai...

The latest Delphi version 10.4.1 was released yesterday and there’s always a few questions about third party components and version upgrades so I thought I’d put up a quick post in response. Every...

I was really pumped with RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney was released in May. I have been rediscovering my love for Delphi lately and the 10.4 release sounded like it was going to be amazing. I stated back ...

In the last article, a simple solution to the common FizzBuzz software developer interview screening test was discussed. For the majority of employers, the simple solution provided will likely be a...

A lot of time, effort, and money is invested into hiring developers so businesses typically go out of their way to ensure they have a qualified candidate. As I’ve experienced a few times over the y...

I recently blogged about Revisiting TThreadedQueue and TMonitor in Delphi and it spawned some discussions including a thread on the English-language Delphi-PRAXiS forums where a few users participa...

RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney has been released, and it’s the biggest release in many years containing many improvements across the board. With such a large release, there was bound to be a few minor a...

The best tool is getting even better! The latest release of Delphi is to be launched this week and the support for Windows is much improved with High DPI Styles and per control styling support! De...

In this post, we take a look at TCountdownEvent from the System.SyncObjs.pas unit, first introduced back in Delphi XE. To be honest, I haven’t used this class before. It’s a shame too, as it seems ...

Unfortunately, both TThreadedQueue and TMonitor have a tainted history in Delphi. The original release of TThreadedQueue looked promising, with Mason Wheeler even classifying the new feature in Del...

While today’s programmers are typically excited about new browser-based technology, the old school Component Object Model (COM) in Windows is still leveraged by a very large portion of business sof...

I assume a large portion of the Delphi developer community has leveraged TWebBrowser to some degree over the years - I know I have used it many times. So, when I started a new project and wanted to...

This is likely the last update for 10.3 Rio before we get a new major release sometime in 2020. That is, besides hotfixes/patches of course - and there’s already a patch available for fixing a pr...