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VOTEWindows 11: A Beautiful Meteor Will Wipe Out The Dinosaurs
Ian Barker
Windows 11 is coming. It’s a fact – and it’s a gorgeous visual tweaking of the Windows desktop, start menu, taskbar and even the rendering of things like your application’s window borders and “non client… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, fluent design, fluent ui, modernization, modernize your applications, Multi-platform UI Design, News, project reunion, SDK, User Interface, windows, Windows 11
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Are You Using The Secret Alternative To SQLite?
Ian Barker
I know the best way to traumatize a software developer who has been using Delphi for some time. You just show them this image: The BDE Administration Manager. So many ‘happy’ hours trying to resolve… … Read more
3 years ago in absolute database, Code, components, database, database components, Delphi, delphi database, News, RAD Studio, SQLLite
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Data ETL: Adding Custom LiveBindings To Your Apps
Ian Barker
In the recent Data ETL focused TCoffeeAndCode episode there was some excellent discussion around the use of FireDAC to extract and manipulate data in various ways. The replay, in case you missed it, the replay… … Read more
3 years ago in Code, database, Delphi, ETL, firedac, LiveBindings, News, RAD Studio, tcoffeeandcode
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Should a contract developer pay for their own components?
Ian Barker
I’ve been off blogging on the official Embarcadero blog here: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/author/ianbarker/ I’ve also been either occasionally guesting or moderating the TCoffeeAndCode webinar series. You can see the latest video below and subscribe to the series… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, replay, tcoffeeandcode, Uncategorized
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Extract, Transform, Load – The Magic Behind HeidiSQL
Ian Barker
HeidiSQL is a wildly successful open source database management tool. Apart from being extremely useful in the management of MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQL Lite databases it is also open source – and that… … Read more
3 years ago in Code, Delphi, ETL, IDE, MSSQL, MYSQL, RAD Studio, SQL, SQLite
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Modernize Your App: Are You Handling Windows Themes Correctly?
Ian Barker
Modern versions of Microsoft Windows are arguably a lot more pleasing to look at. Gone are the days of apps being gray slabs and chunky buttons. When Microsoft adopted the Fluent UI interface along with… … Read more
4 years ago in Code, Delphi, delphi vcl, modernize your applications, RAD Studio, vcl
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Do All Your Windows Applications Look Like A Computer Virus?
Ian Barker
OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, the Next Big Thing. You’re taking the modern approach. You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things… … Read more
4 years ago in AntiVirus, cbuilder, Code, code-signing, Delphi, News, RAD Studio, Security
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When you have friends
Ian Barker
I know a fair few people in the Delphi world and I’m fortunate to call several of them my friends. It’s nice to hang out online with fellow like-minded developers and it’s doubly-handy since we… … Read more
4 years ago in Uncategorized
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Add STOMP to your apps for lightweight real-time streaming
Ian Barker
STOMP is a publish/subscribe messaging protocol which allows for very lightweight communications between almost any mixture of programming languages, operating system platforms and “message brokers”. This article goes into detail about what STOMP is, why… … Read more
4 years ago in chocolatey, Code, Delphi, RabbitMQ, RAD Studio, real-time, STOMP, websockets
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Join TCoffeeAndCode For Developer Chats
Ian Barker
Have you watched any of the TCofeeAndCode series yet? They are informal discussions ranging from 30 minute lunch-time “espresso sized” ones to two hour (or more) full discussions. Being the media darling that I am… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Embarcadero, live webinar, tcoffeeandcode, Uncategorized, webinars
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Websockets Harness Real-Time Power In Your Delphi Apps
Ian Barker
Are you using websockets in your applications yet? Do you need to know what websockets can do for your apps? Read on to get up to speed on everything you need to know about using… … Read more
4 years ago in components, Delphi, RAD Studio, real-time, WebSocket Secure, websockets
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How to make an epic dashboard visualization for Windows, mobile and the web the easy way
Ian Barker
Dashboards, a graphical visualization of data, seem to be everywhere, especially in these pandemic times where daily and weekly trends take on a very personal significance. In this article we are going to look at… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, delphi data visualization, FireMonkey, RAD Studio, TChart, Tech Partner, teechart, visualization
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TCoffeeAndCode full panel with some great guests
Ian Barker
After yesterday’s post with the replay of the “espresso-sized” UK TCoffeeAndCode panel I was on – here’s a link to the bigger, fuller, calorie-laden USA TCoffeeAndCode panel. This was a great panel to be on… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, replay, tcoffeeandcode, Uncategorized, Webinar
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“Espresso sized” user interface design replay
Ian Barker
I’ve been invited just recently to appear on a few webinars to regale people with thoughts about user interface design. As Stephen Ball said during his introduction of me, I’m a bit of a user… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, stephen ball, UI, Uncategorized, User Interface
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Where NOT to put your Delphi components
Ian Barker
This is just a bit of an observation of things I’ve noticed in the past month or so. As an MVP I often have several copies of Delphi, both release and beta, installed on multiple… … Read more
4 years ago in Uncategorized
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