You may know Clang as a compiler for the C family of languages. But is a library too; one that you can also use from Delphi to create tools to work with C(++) and Objective-C code. Tools such as header translators or C-to-Pascal converters. About libclang Clang is a C based language front-end for the… Continue reading libclang for Delphi
Looking to add JavaScript capabilities to you app, but without the bulk and overhead of JIT engines like V8, SpiderMonkey and Chakra? Then take a look at Duktape. Duktape is a lightweight, embeddable and cross-platform JavaScript engine. It fits into a DLL just over half a megabyte in size but supports the complete ECMAScript 5.1… Continue reading JavaScripting with Duktape for Delphi
In this 3rd and final part of the MVVM series we tie everything together by looking at the Views and how to bind controls and actions to their ViewModels. We show that by putting most UI logic in the ViewModel, we can easily create both an FMX and VCL version of the same application with… Continue reading MVVM Starter Kit (Part 3 of 3)
In this second part of our MVVM mini series we look at ViewModels and how they can be unit tested. We assume you already read the first part, where we talked about the MVVM pattern and data binding. We discuss ViewModels and Views separately, leaving the discussion of Views to the part 3. Usually, you… Continue reading MVVM Starter Kit (Part 2 of 3)
We present a framework to help you get started separating user interface from code using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. In this first part, I will briefly introduce the MVVM pattern, talk about data binding and start building out the Models for a sample application. In part 2 we will focus on the ViewModels and how these… Continue reading MVVM Starter Kit (Part 1 of 3)
This final part of our trilogy on big data databases introduces a Delphi driver for MongoDB. This driver is independent from any other data access frameworks in Delphi and provides direct and efficient access to data on a MongoDB server. The previous posts in this series focus on Cassandra and Couchbase. For more information about… Continue reading Working with big data databases in Delphi – Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 3 of 3)
Android and iOS have built-in support for detecting faces in photos. We present a small platform-independent abstraction layer to access this functionality through a uniform interface. You can find the source code on GitHub as part of our JustAddCode repository. Like we did in our post on Cross Platform Text-to-Speech, we expose the functionality through a Delphi… Continue reading Face Detection on Android and iOS
GrijjyCloudLogger is a remote logging tool that allows you to send log messages over the Intranet or Internet from Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and macOS devices to a viewer running on Windows. Besides sending messages along with any data, it has numerous features including custom live watches, remote live views of objects, tracking live memory… Continue reading GrijjyCloudLogger, remote logging for Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and Linux
ZeroMQ is high-speed, distributed messaging library for building scalable communication apps using smart patterns like pub-sub, push-pull, and router-dealer. In this article we will be demonstrating a Delphi version of the ZeroMQ Majordomo Protocol specification which is lightweight distributed communication framework for creating service daemons running on Windows and Linux (with Tokyo 10.2) and client… Continue reading Roll your own lightweight, scalable backend using ZeroMQ
Google’s Protocol Buffers are a flexible, compact and extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. We share our implementation that makes it easy to serialize Delphi records to a binary format that is 100% compatible with the Protocol Buffers specification. Want to go straight to the source? You can find it on GitHub in our GrijjyFoundation… Continue reading Binary Serialization with Google Protocol Buffers
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