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Wood and timber has been a flourishing industry for thousands of years. Some of the oldest traces of early mankind include evidence that we were using wood to make our lives easier; as tables, for leverage on the slabs of Stonehenge, bridge pillars in ancient muddy causeways. Even arrows to helps us obtain meat and food bowls in which to prepare and consume it. The dragon-headed Viking long ships and the more curlicue Mayflower which braved towering seas, the vast beams of old English Tudor houses, and even the great William Shakespeare’s original Globe theater were all made from this versatile material which, quite literally, grows on trees. It’s a relationship which has stood the test of time with very little change while the world around it began to buzz with the sound of electricity and engines. Into this dominion of wood and its products there is room for some modernity. The business of wood, like any, has bills to pay and inventory to manage and what better way to do that down in the wilds of a lumber yard than to have a handheld mobile device which can go where more clunky desktops and laptops might be a hinderance rather than a help. 3LOG LIMS integrates the LIMS System into easy, powerful mobile access LIMS is powerful business management software for the timber and wood products industries. As stated by the developer, “It combines the features of a log or timber accounting system with support for silviculture, wood procurement, contractor payables, vendor and contract management, log and wood products inventory, sales and consumption, business planning, querying, reporting, and accounting. LIMS has proven its capabilities at over 500 sites in North America. Companies from single mills to big names in the forestry industry are using 3LOG software every day. With LIMS, you can configure the system to work the way your company works, and then easily add new business activities without additional programming. For example, if you decide to start trading logs or fiber from a mill that previously only consumed wood, you simply add the customer and your contract and accounting rules, and start entering transactions. The features are already in the system, without additional programming.” Of course, it’s written using RAD Studio Delphi with the flexible yet powerful FireMonkey FMX framework. The 3Log Website Website 3LOG LIMS Apple App Store 3LOG LIMS Google Play 3LOG LIMS Screenshot Gallery RAD Studio Delphi makes writing cross-platform apps much easier and allows you maximum code-reuse to harness the full native power of your user’s devices. Why not download a trial today?

Did you know how easy it is with RAD Studio Delphi to add powerful, enterprise-grade real-time streaming to and from IoT devices? We’re going to show you how to get your apps to talk to IoT devices securely and in a robust fashion in just a few easy steps. IoT and Delphi – linking the “internet of things” IoT is very popular these days and the number of connected devices are growing at unprecedented rate. We can find “things” connected to the internet and used for all sorts of applications in our homes, offices, industry and commerce. In fact, they’re so ubiquitous we sometimes don’t even notice them and the form factor they take can be non-obvious too, taking such ephemera as ‘smart’ dog collars, luggage tags, or even automated egg monitors in chicken farms. These physical devices usually have integrated software to allow them to communicate with each other and of course to provide useful information to humans. Many are designed to do that with little to no human intervention. I took a look at a small internet search for “connected devices” to see what would come up: Google Home Voice Controller Amazon Echo Plus Voice Controller Amazon Dash Button August Doorbell Cam August Smart Lock Kuri Mobile Robot Belkin WeMo Smart Light Switch Footbot Air Quality Monitor Flow by Plume Labs Air Pollution Monitor Nest Smoke Alarm IoT devices have a common theme IoT devices have two things in common: Capability to connect to the internet. After all, it’s the “I” in “IoT”. Having some inbuilt technology to provide their functionality such as sensors, functional software and the connectivity. The market for IoT devices is increasing surprisingly. We have now reached the stage where there are more IoT devices than humans. What is IPWorks IoT? IPWorks IoT is a light-weight library which you can use in your Delphi and C++ builder applications to easily integrate IoT communication protocols. It supports all of the common protocols. IPWorks has a long history and has been a very reliable framework for over 25 years now. These IoT components are based on those IPWorks framework so you don’t have to worry about their security and reliability. Another great feature is the components do not depend on any external libraries or similar dependencies. Also the components are thread safe which is an added bonus when dealing with multiple devices with potentially simultaneous flows of real-time data. The icing on the cake is that IPWorks has a great active online knowledge base. Where can I get IoT components for Delphi? You can get IPWorkis IoT from Getit libraries: https://getitnow.embarcadero.com/trial-ipworks-iot-2020-delphi-edition/ How do I implement MQTT with IPWorks IoT? MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. MQTT is the OASIS standard for IoT messaging. MQTT is basically designed for low resources scenarios such as microcontrollers. MQTT use less bandwidth than other protocols such as HTTP. Message headers are smaller and the overhead in sending/receiving them is correspondingly lightweight too. MQTT is bidirectional. Also it allows message broadcasting. Messaging is very reliable. There are three levels of QoS. At most once (0) At least once (1) Exactly once (2) MQTT is very useful in unreliable networks. With MQTT persistent sessions, you can reduce the bandwidth and response time. Also you can setup TLS and transfer data securely. IPWorks […]

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Angular is an extremely popular and powerful web application design framework. It’s a development platform for creating highly efficient and sophisticated single-page apps. Angular is built on TypeScript which is a strongly-typed super-set of JavaScript. The TypeScript framework shares a parentage with Delphi since the project is headed by Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg who we all know better as the original creator of Delphi. Anders is still very active in the TypeScript project. TypeScript was designed to overcome some of the shortcomings of JavaScript and in particular to try and use the lessons learned with Delphi’s superb type system to help prevent very common and subtle errors which crop up frequently in JavaScript when developers accidentally misuse an object. What sort of features does Angular include? It’s a component-based framework for building scalable web applications. TypeScript has a collection of well-integrated libraries that cover a wide variety of features, including routing, forms management, client-server communication, and more TypeScript has a suite of developer tools to help you develop, build, test, and update your code With Angular, you’re taking advantage of a platform that can scale from single-developer projects to enterprise-level applications. Angular is designed to make updating as easy as possible, so you can take advantage of the latest developments with a minimum of effort. Best of all, the Angular ecosystem consists of a diverse group of over 1.7 million developers, library authors, and content creators. What can we do with Angular and Delphi? Of course many things we can do using Delphi, one of them is by serving Angular application using it, so let’s create simple web application using Angular. Here are the steps: Running Angular with Delphi Run application and point your browser to http://localhost:8080/index.html , you should see something like the image below: Easy isn’t it ? Please check updated code here https://github.com/checkdigits/horse-API-Demo

No matter how big, successful or important we may, or may not, become in our lives we are all just tiny ants in a vast Cosmos. It’s humbling and useful to remember when you’re having a bad Monday or a terrific Tuesday that we’re each just one of 7.5 billion people hurtling around the Sun. That circuit of the Sun, of course, has fascinated humankind for thousands of years, provoking ancient British Iron Age people to build Stonehenge and Egyptian pharaohs to worship it as the deity Ra. In the English language we even have a day of the week named after it. Our whole wide world in the palm of your hand So with this solar preoccupation it’s perhaps no surprise that there is a striking mobile app from Belgian developer MICRI Consult based in Oostende which helps us to visualize the Earth, its position in space relative to the Sun and how the shadow of night glides across our globe’s surface. It’s at once both a terrific teaching aid for children and adults alike, a useful reference for the physics and astronomical data involved and a beguilingly addictive game too. That’s a pretty clever trick to pull off in a mobile app! How is this native Android app produced? Written in the richly powerful cross-platform FireMonkey FMX framework using RAD Studio Delphi, the Earth Positions app really helps us picture anything we could ever want or need to know about the relationship between the Sun and our blue planet home. Learning is made more fun through clever use of educational games and smooth, rich video animations to engage little learners and the bigger ones too! Great stuff by MICRI Consult What does the Earth Positions app do? The app has three main feature animations The Geographical game, where you have to guess a location on a 3D-earth, which rotates and tumbles to display that location in the middle. This game contains 4 levels (beginner, skillful, advanced and expert), 5 continents (Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania) and 5 groups (capitals, large cities, airports, towns and other). Users can get up to 3 hints and depending on the level, you may have to choose between 3, 6, 9 or 12 possibilities. It contains more than 3000 locations, of which 243 capitals and 108 large cities. Day and night, showing the shape of the night over the earth for any given date and time. It also shows the time at different earth positions and the city lights of the capitals and large cities at night. At the start, the animation shows the current day, but you can select any date to observe how shape of the night changes during the seasons, e.g. March 21, June 21, September 21 and December 21. The earth orbiting around the sun, showing the actual date for each position, the seasons and the special orbit positions of the earth. You can also select any date to indicate it on the orbit. Google Play Earth Positions Screenshot Gallery Do you want to produce a beautiful app with high-performance, native power – RAD Studio can help you do it. Why not download a trial today?