Writing a Delphi face recognition integration with Deepstack
Learn how to integrate Delphi with Deepstack to run your own face recognition service.
How to integrate stock market information in your Window / Linux / Mac OS / Android apps
Here’s a video I created recently to show how easy it can be to write an app that contains updated stock prices from exchanges around the world. Hope you enjoy it. Cheers!
Using non supported values in TCookie
A couple of weeks back, a web server user from one of the Delphi groups I am part of was complaining about support of new missing elements in the TCookie class that comes with Delphi. For those who are uninitiated in cookies, cookies are small bits of information that the web server send to the …. Read More
Fixing your web broker application that use SSL/TLS
Some of you may have been issues with browsers connecting to your web broker applications. This problem has come up at different times for different people. For me, this happened last week. Suddenly, my Firefox browser wasn’t able to connect to my web applications written in Delphi. After an excruciatingly painful hour, I finally figured …. Read More
Build your own FireDAC pooled multi-threaded database access functionality
Before I get into the subject, I want to make it abundantly clear that there are many… many other ways of achieving the same thing and some of them might be even better than what I am going to explain here. However, the reason for writing this blog isn’t to get the best performance of …. Read More
RAD Studio ISO Installer and Getit Package Manager
Recently, I had an Embarcadero client facing a peculiar issue. He said that when he installed RAD Studio via the web installer, GetIt worked fine. But when he used the ISO installer, GetIt just wouldn’t connect. The good news is that this is a known issue. And even better news is that its easily resolvable! …. Read More
Activating SSL / TLS in your Delphi 10.4 web server application
Until recently (pre Sydney 10.4) , you could activate SSL on any port (not just 443) on your Delphi web server application pretty easily by giving the cert and the key file along with the password event to the SSL IO handler object. However, that has changed in the latest version. If you use the …. Read More
Deploy your Delphi applications with this plug-n-play Ubuntu Linux VM
Here’s the thing, setting up VMs can be a pain in the… neck. Especially when you have just try something out quickly to know if it works. I get that pain. I felt the same way about putting in several hours of learning to configure the VM machinedownload the right ISOinstalling it running the right …. Read More
A case for Attri-beautes (Attributes) in Delphi
I know what you are thinking… ‘attributes?? who needs them?!’. I have to be honest here… it took me a while to warm up to attributes too. When they were first introduced in 2009, I was like… ‘meh, I can get that done without attributes…’. That feeling remained with me for the next 4 years …. Read More
Desktop First!
The euphoria over the whole ‘mobile first’ idea is over. When mobile phones first came in, we thought they were going to the only thing that survives and they will make desktop unrequired. But you and I both know that’s not how it turned out. Even after the constant improvement in the mobile hardware and …. Read More