Embarcadero have announced free Community Edition IDE’s for Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Tokyo. The Community Editions have local database support, cross platform support (including Windows, Mac, Android and iOS support) as well as all the visual design, debugging and code editing support you’d expect. These are aimed at students, open source contributors, hobbyists, as the
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We have a couple of very experienced Jenkins folks visiting from Cloudbees in the US next week, so we thought it was a good excuse to get the meetups in Sydney and Melbourne together. We’re not planning a formal presentation, but both Kurt and Aaron have been involved with helping a lot of large customers
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Embarcadero have released a Hotfix for Delphi 10.2.3 that covers two main areas: fixes for some CodeInsight issues further cleanup and fixes for iOS 11.3 (comments on the post indicate it also works for 11.4) Marco has further details here, but even if your not doing iOS, the CodeInsight fixes are worth grabbing.
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As you might be aware, with Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Embarcadero added mobile support into the Professional edition. Previously it was available as a paid add-on. In future releases I expect it’ll just be included as part of the normal Pro installation, but until then 10.2.3 Pro users need to take some extra steps to
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It’s rather a common scenario when a Firemonkey mobile app needs to open a file. It might be a PDF document, an image or video. And while opening a file directly inside of Firemonkey app is totally a legit strategy, sometimes it may be not so easy to implement. TImage provides great support for various
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My Jenkins job was set to trigger a build automatically from a simple GitHub webhook, but the job didn’t build when code changes were pushed to GitHub. Was the problem in Jenkins, GitHub, or something else? I investigated using Jenkins log recorders.
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It’s a common task for a Firemonkey developer to check Internet connectivity. It might be useful to notify a user that he is going to download a huge amount of data using his mobile connection, or just indicate Online/Offline mode on the UI. This functionality is missing from RAD Studio classes, so lots of developers
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This is the final post, part 3 of a series: Part 1: Overview and Deploy Azure Resources Part 2: Deploy Jenkins Operations Center, Master and Shared Agent Part 3: The Jenkinsfile, tweaks and tips In this post I describe the Jenkinsfile that defines the build pipeline, a little troubleshooting and tweaking, and wrap up the series.
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We’re teaming up with Embarcadero to hold an event around ExtJS, the very cool web dev framework that came through the Sencha acquisition. The aim of the event is to show RAD Studio developers how they can leverage ExtJS to extend their Delphi and C++Builder code onto the web. To get you over that initial
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If you’ve done much mobile development, you’ll know that what happens to your app when you switch away from it is very much at the mercy of the OS. While this is true on the desktop and the server as well, on mobile the OS is very focussed on maximising battery life, and so will
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