A few of the team and I have travelled to the San Francisco for Jenkins World and after a long day 1 of the conference, we recorded a quick wrap-up of some of our highlights. We’re seriously suffering from jetlag and too much coffee, but if you weren’t able to make it to Jenkins World this
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Every developer who works with UI handles a lot of user input. And it’s not a rare situation that we don’t need to handle every incoming event because there might be just too many of them. Consider this example, a user fills an email field on “Sign up” form in some application which works with a
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In one of our customer projects, we had an Android app that was receiving broadcasts on a background thread (I’ll call this the Receiver thread). On receipt of a message, the Receiver thread needed to do some processing on that message and then update the main thread (the UI thread). The initial solution to this was
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It was only today that I got around to updating the VM I use for demos to RAD Studio 10.2.1. Unlike the VM’s I use for customer projects, this one is using my MVP License. I installed 10.2.1 no problems, but upon running I got the following error message: An Update Subscription for Embarcadero Delphi 10.2
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Embarcadero have released an update to 10.2 Tokyo today. The official details are here, but it includes: Linux performance improvements Windows 10 Creator support in both Delphi and C++Builder Support for the latest iOS and XCode FireDAC Driver database support updates for MS SQL, Interbase and others Further Android architectural improvements Plus more than 140
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You might have seen the recent Beta announcement from Embarcadero for the Enterprise Connectors. I’ve been doing some work with a few of them lately, so wanted to give you an overview of my experiences, starting with the Salesforce driver. If you’re not aware, the Enterprise Conenctors are a whole bunch of FireDAC drivers that
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This post is part 2 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 deploy the Jenkins distributed builds model: a Jenkins client master will delegate build jobs to one or more Jenkins agents. In addition,
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I’ve been trying out Enterprise Jenkins on Azure. The inspiration was a webinar, Achieving Continuous Delivery on Microsoft Azure, about the “four quadrants of DevOps maturity”, and how to address the needs of different teams in the delivery pipeline using tools from Azure and Enterprise Jenkins. The webinar includes a demo of a cloud-based Jenkins Pipeline job, and the source code is freely
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RAD Studio’s ability to do remote debugging of Android apps on device is fantastic for tracking down issues. However sometimes you have issues where the debugger can’t help. Case in point is one of the projects we were doing for a customer recently. The Android portion included a Service, which needed to be auto-started when
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Code Partners hosted the Sydney Jenkins Meetup again this month, and this time it was my turn to present. I’ve been exploring the new Declarative Pipeline support recently for one of our projects so I wanted to give everyone an overview, how they differ from Scripted Pipelines, and share some of the shortcuts I’d found
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