Marco Tech Blog

April, 2017

Blog posts archive for the given month, sorted by date. See the link for entire blog archive above.


New Warnings, Illegal Casts, and other Delphi compiler changes in 10.2 Tokyo

While there is no significant new Delphi language feature -- but a brand new Delphi compiler for Linux -- the 10.2 version has a few changes worth mentioning. Also because they can be causing issues when compiling existing code that has borderline code. -- Read blog post.

Deploying Files (and PAServer) to Linux via WinSCP

I'm a longtime fan and user of WinSCP. It is great for direct deployment of files (including executable files build in Delphi) to Linux. But it also help deploying PAServer. -- Read blog post.

Windows 10 Creators Update and Delphi 10.2

Today Microsoft shipped Windows 10 Creators Update. I installed it and also did some testing of the Bash shell. From the Delphi perspective, of course. -- Read blog post.

RAD Studio 2017 Themes and Developers Survey

With 10.2 Tokyo shipping, we have renewed our focus to future plans. The RAD Studio PM team has published a summary of the themes for this and the next year, and opened our yearly developers survey to our customers asking input for our future plans and validation of some ideas we are exploring. -- Read blog post.

Linux ClientDataSet libmidas.so Now Available

The libmidas.so library required to use the ClientDataSet component on Linux is now available for download. -- Read blog post.

Delphi Relax Web Scripting on Linux

I've finished porting my Delphi Relax web scripting library to RAD Studio 10.2, adding Linux support. I've also created a new small and focused Linux demo I plan expanding soon. -- Read blog post.