Softacom`s Delphi digest

Business

• How-to: 5 Practical steps of migrating a legacy system to the Cloud. This article discusses the various benefits of migration of a legacy system to the cloud and describes the step-by-step process. It will also highlight some of the potential risks and challenges associated with such a migration.

• Enterprise Resource Planning: The Magnificent Guide. Check out this detailed guide to discover how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems work, and how to get started building ERP applications for your enterprise customers.

• ERP system legacy code migration and UI modernization. Read this case study from our practice in which we helped our client, a software provider of ERP systems for auto parts manufacturers, to update the UI of their ERP system and migrate it from Delphi 2007 to Delphi 10.4.

• Visual Responsive Design with Delphi. Encounter the brand new technology for adding responsive design to Delphi apps in a visual way. Responsive design is the name for making your application GUI layout dependent on screen size and optimize it for use on different devices. 

• Embarcadero InterBase 2020 Update 4 Released. Embarcadero has released a new version of its InterBase flagship database engine, InterBase 2020 Update 4. With this release, the company continues to improve the product’s quality and usability.

Programming

• The third part of the webinar: How to use JWT when authorizing in Delphi. Watch the third part of our webinar “Mobile development in Delphi with REST API”, in which CEO at landgraf.dev, TMS Software Partner, TMS Business Product Manager, Software Developer Expert and Engineer Wagner Landgraf shows how to use JWT when authorizing in Delphi.

• TMainMenu: Creating Menus in Delphi. Read our article in which we show how to create the main menu for your Delphi apps using TMainMenu.

• Facebook is a social network that boasts high popularity among users from all over the world. Earlier, we have already shown how it is possible to automate the process of posting different types of info on a Facebook page using the Facebook Graph API. In this article, we will show how to get Facebook account info (a user’s name, number of friends, date of birth, information about posts, likes, etc.) without signing into an account.

• Events in Delphi. Subscription for event. Some developers work in Delphi IDE for years and do not know how the event mechanism that they use every day works. In this article we dive deeper into this issue. It will be useful for creating your own components and also for understanding all pluses and minuses of this approach. 

• Everything you need to know on building native iOS apps with Delphi. Today, developing an app for a single platform is no longer sufficient. With the rapidly evolving technology, most users are looking for an application that they can conveniently access across multiple devices using different platforms. In this video from the recently concluded Coding Boot Camp 2022, Ian Barker and Serge Pilko will walk us through the process of developing native cross-platform apps for iOS.