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This book focuses on a modern, streamlined approach to web development using HTMX and WebStencils.

HTMX is a lightweight JavaScript alternative for building dynamic web user interfaces and is becoming the goto solution for web developers as it helps them significantly reduce the amount of JavaScript they need to write, making the development process faster and more intuitive, simpler to read and debug and easier to maintain.

HTMX’s simplicity aligns perfectly with RAD Studio’s rapid application development ethos, allowing developers to focus more on application logic instead of struggling with complex front-end code.

The beauty of WebStencils lies in its template-driven architecture. Instead of reinventing the wheel, developers can expose existing business logic via reusable and customisable templates that seamlessly integrate with existing applications, reducing the friction of bringing older projects to the web. This not only accelerates development but also enhances collaboration between development teams, enabling them to work more closely with existing codebases.

By reading this book, you will learn how to leverage the power of HTMX and WebStencils to develop modern web applications with less effort and greater flexibility. Whether you are working on enhancing existing desktop applications for the web or building new, dynamic web projects, this book provides practical insights to help you get the most out of RAD Studio’s evolving web development ecosystem.

You can learn more about RAD Studio or download a free trial to code along with the examples in this book from https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio

Let’s dive into how these technologies can simplify your workflow and take your web development projects to the next level!

RESTful architectures are a key driving force behind modern API first application design. This book focuses on the RAD Server framework included with RAD Studio (Delphi/C++Builder) for developing such platforms.

RAD Server is a full backend MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) that enables Desktop, Mobile and Web frontend development in any language, and this book is designed as a definitive guide for developers.

The benefit of a MEAP is that you have a pre-built cloud or on-prem server with many core capabilities (such as push notifications, user tracking and analytics) that you can plug into rapidly to deliver remote database and functional access.

This guide to Embarcadero RAD Server, originally authored by David I (2019), is in its second edition, revised by Antonio Zapater (2023), which includes many additional features added based on market demand since RAD Servers Launch. The second edition is also supported by a comprehensive video series supporting each chapter, along with source code examples on GitHub. https://github.com/embarcadero/radserver-docs

This book covers Dependency Injection from A to Z. In it you'll learn about Constructor Injection, Property Injection, and Method Injection. You'll learn about the right and wrong way to use the Dependency Injection Container.

Chapter List:

• What is Dependency Injection
• Benefits of Dependency Injection
• Constructor Injection
• Property Injection
• Method Injection
• Using the Container
• A Simple Migration Example
• Advanced Uses of the Container
• Dependency Injection Anti-patterns
• A Full, Useful Example
• Final Thoughts

This book will help you Code Faster in Delphi through a vast array of tips, tricks and hacks to squeeze every bit of productivity out of yourself and the Delphi IDE.

Don't touch that mouse! Hands on the keyboard, and eyes front. You're about to embark on a Bootcamp to tone your coding muscles, sharpen your shortcuts, fix forms faster, and accelerate your career as a Delphi Programmer.

Now drop and give me twenty lines of code and five laps of that while loop.

This book will help you Code Faster in Delphi through a vast array of tips, tricks and hacks to squeeze every bit of productivity out of yourself and the Delphi IDE.

This is a book all about writing Delphi code. It's not about the VCL or database access. It's just about how to use the language in the most effective way to write clean, testable, maintainable Delphi code. It covers a variety of powerful Delphi programming features and techniques including Generics, Interfaces, Exception Handling, Anonymous Methods, Collections, RTTI, Enumerators, Attributes, Dependency Injection and Unit Testing.

This book is all about the cool, new code you can write with Delphi. It won't matter whether you are building a VCL or an FM application. I've titled it "Coding in Delphi" because I want to make it a book that shows you simple examples of how to use powerful features -- that, is about the *code*. These language features are indeed advanced features -- they are new relative to, say, the `case` statement -- and thus many of you are beginners to them. By the end of this book, you won't be. What you will find are ways to make your code much cleaner, much more powerful, and way easier to maintain.

"More Coding in Delphi" picks up where "Coding in Delphi" left off, continuing to illustrate good, sound coding techniques including patterns, Aspect Oriented Programming and programming for the Parallel Programming Library.

Outline:

• Six Thoughts on Coding Before We Start
• Writing SOLID Code
• DuckTyping
• Aspect-oriented Programming
• Observer Pattern
• Adapter Pattern
• Decorator Pattern
• Command Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• Multi-Threading and Parallel Programming
• Things Nick Does in Code
• TSmiley

Delphi and Electron for Desktop Plattforms

When businesses choose a software framework they begin a long-term relationship for the duration of their application’s lifecycle. Given the strategic consequences of this decision, businesses must carefully consider how frameworks enhance developer productivity, business functionality, application flexibility, product performance, the long-term viability of that framework, and the inherent security in each framework’s design and technology. The ideal framework demonstrates strength in each category by minimizing product time-to-market, reducing maintenance costs, supporting product variety, and facilitating a superior customer experience.

This paper evaluates two frameworks supporting multi-platform desktop application development: Delphi and Electron.

In order to assess these frameworks, this paper defines four evaluation categories and 26 metrics, defines and analyzes a benchmark application, and scores each framework using a weighted evaluation. The benchmark, an RSS reader, assesses each frameworks’ ability to create an application for multiple desktop operating systems and provides insight into framework performance differences between operating systems.

This newly updated 500-page eBook for Delphi 11 Alexandria is a complete guide to the current, modern Object Pascal programming language by best-selling Delphi books author and Delphi Senior Product Manager, Marco Cantú.

It's a manual for new and existing Object Pascal developers and covers, among other things, the following:

The world of software development thrives on innovative concepts like Object Orientated Programming (OOP), Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Low-Code, Enterprise & Micro Services, UI / UX design, and many more.

There is arguably one key concept behind many of these buzzwords, one that has seen a huge resurgence in recent times. It continues to heavily influence the modern tooling and processes used in software development today, and is now being claimed by a broader set of products covering a host of innovative approaches. That term is Rapid Application Development (RAD).

With big software firms like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Salesforce, to name just a few, all evangelising RAD approaches, this paper will explore how RAD is evolving, and how RAD Studio® today continues to innovate tooling and frameworks and supports the latest development practices and protocols.

The first requirement for any software house is to build the internal capabilities that allow them to rapidly reach the customer with the user experience expected. Once they can target their customers devices, they can then plan and develop the applications and architectures to base their business upon.

To be clear, this paper isn’t here to talk about internal development practices, because regardless of your approach to development, the aim is the same: To ensure your apps compile, are secure, run and look good on your customers systems. Instead, this paper will look at the market trends that are important to maintaining the internal capabilities for delivering software to end users.