Receiving push notifications from Apple’s Push Notification and Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging services

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017 Allen Drennan14 Comments

In the previous article we demonstrated how to roll your own Google Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple APNS push notifications from Delphi apps in a unified manner. This article continues the conversation about how to easily receive and consume them in your Delphi mobile app. Introduction If you are authoring a Delphi service for the… Continue reading Receiving push notifications from Apple’s Push Notification and Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging services

Foundation · Libraries · Uncategorized

Efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 Erik van Bilsen13 Comments

We share our efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library that supports a Document Object Model (DOM), direct reading and writing in JSON and BSON format, and automatic serialization of Delphi records and classes to and from JSON and BSON. Why another JSON library? There are already quite a few JSON libraries out there, so… Continue reading Efficient and easy-to-use JSON and BSON library

Communications · Uncategorized

Sending iOS (and Android) remote push notifications from your Delphi service with the HTTP/2 protocol

January 18, 2017 Allen Drennan2 Comments

In this article we are going to discuss how to make a base unifying class for sending remote push notifications from your service to both the iOS (Apple Push Notification Service) and Android (Firebase Cloud Messaging) as well as covering how to use the newer Apple HTTP/2 protocol interface for sending push notifications from Delphi.… Continue reading Sending iOS (and Android) remote push notifications from your Delphi service with the HTTP/2 protocol

Communications · Uncategorized

Using the Google Cloud Platform APIs

January 13, 2017January 13, 2017 Allen Drennan3 Comments

This article covers how to use the Google Cloud Platform in conjunction with the Google Compute Engine to call various Google APIs. In this article we show how to call the new Speech-To-Text API from a backend instance running on the Google Compute Engine. If you are creating services for the cloud these days then… Continue reading Using the Google Cloud Platform APIs

Foundation · Uncategorized

Expand your Collections collection – Part 2: a generic ring buffer

January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 Erik van Bilsen4 Comments

We continue our tour of custom collections with a generic ring buffer. What is a ring buffer? A ring buffer (also known as a circular buffer) is a fixed-size buffer that is connected end-to-end. It is similar to a queue in that behaves like a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) buffer. But unlike a queue, it does not… Continue reading Expand your Collections collection – Part 2: a generic ring buffer

Databases · Uncategorized

Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 2 of 3)

January 11, 2017January 13, 2017 Allen Drennan1 Comment

This is the second part of a three-part series on working with big data databases directly from Delphi. In this second part we focus on a basic class framework for working with Couchbase along with unit tests and examples. Part 1 focuses on Cassandra, Part 2 focuses on Couchbase and Part 3 focuses on MongoDB.… Continue reading Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 2 of 3)

Foundation · Tips & Tricks · Uncategorized

Unit Testing Generic Types

January 10, 2017January 11, 2017 Erik van Bilsen6 Comments

So you created a generic class. Maybe a specialized generic collection, like a generic set. Professional as you are, you are going to need some unit tests for this class. But how do you test a class that can have so many variations depending on the type argument. You could write test cases for just… Continue reading Unit Testing Generic Types

Communications · Foundation · Uncategorized

Scalable HTTP/S and TCP client sockets for the cloud

January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 Allen Drennan7 Comments

Now that the cloud has become a core part of every developer’s life, we are faced with designing scalable, distributed services that reside on these platforms (Amazon’s AWS, Google Compute and Microsoft Azure) and are able to interact with other third-party facing services and middle-ware such as databases, messaging brokers, remote push messaging services and… Continue reading Scalable HTTP/S and TCP client sockets for the cloud

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