Author: Allen Drennan

Co-Founder at Grijjy, Inc.
Using Facebook SDK native framework for iOS and Android for Social Login and more (Part 1)
Communications · Social · Uncategorized

Using Facebook SDK native framework for iOS and Android for Social Login and more (Part 1)

Allen Drennan19 Comments

In this article we will demonstrate how to embed the iOS framework SDK for Facebook so you can present a more professional social login feature for users of your app. We will also show how to perform various Facebook SDK requests transparently for the user from your client app using the Facebook SDK framework instead… Continue reading Using Facebook SDK native framework for iOS and Android for Social Login and more (Part 1)

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

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

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

Using the Google Cloud Platform APIs
Communications · Uncategorized

Using the Google Cloud Platform APIs

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

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

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

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)

Scalable HTTP/S and TCP client sockets for the cloud
Communications · Foundation · Uncategorized

Scalable HTTP/S and TCP client sockets for the cloud

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

Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 1 of 3)
Databases · Uncategorized

Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 1 of 3)

Allen Drennan2 Comments

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

Happy New Year and hello to everyone!
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Happy New Year and hello to everyone!

Allen Drennan3 Comments

I would like to introduce Grijjy Consulting to the developer community.  We are a team of developers who love engineering software.  The Grijjy team focuses on software engineering topics that cover the full stack and we specialize in areas of coding that are not typically covered.   The purpose of this blog is to share our code and experiences… Continue reading Happy New Year and hello to everyone!