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Aldo Victoria started using Delphi in 2001. His application (Uworktify: A Fun Online Print Service Provider App Is Built In Delphi) was one of the submitted showcase entries over at the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge. Aldo took some time out of his busy schedule to give us some background about how he acquired Delphi skills and knowledge. Head over to the Uworktify website for further information on Aldo’s showcase entry app. When did you start using RAD Studio Delphi and…

It’s a cliché that Developers are known for their taste to work long hours while drinking coffee… so, if you are into programming you most probably know the logo in the image below as it stands for the American multinational and world’s largest coffeehouse chain, Starbucks! The power of logos The point is that there is no name written in the coffee mug, just a logo. Let’s imagine for a moment that I don’t know which brand the logo represents;…

According to the US CDC, the social and interpersonal restrictions which arose during the COVID-19 world pandemic was accompanied by a substantial uptick in stress and anxiety levels. People were apparently finding that the isolation brought about social distancing measures along with a corresponding impact on work and financial insecurity was unsettling and many seem to have found it difficult to deal with. One growth area for developers was in producing apps which helped mitigate those stress levels by encouraging…

HeidiSQL is a wildly successful open source database management tool. Apart from being extremely useful in the management of MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases it is also open source – and that source code is written in Delphi. We’ve taken a brief overview of it before but that time we only scratched the surface of this wonderfully artful example of Delphi programming at its best. The code itself is packed with really great techniques. Let’s take a closer…

DeepAI is very popular platform for artificial intelligence. They provide researches, guides, news and several AI APIs. You can learn more about their APIs from this link: https://deepai.org/apis The range and depth of the APIs offered by DeepAI is quite astounding. They include APIs which allow for image colorization, facial recognition, nudity detection, sentiment and emotion detection, text summarization, pose detection, text/caption generation, OCR, text to image, signature verification, toonify (to turn images into cartoon-like drawings), content moderation, anonymization and…

What is web scraping? Web Scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from websites. The web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While Web Scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a program, bot, or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and…

Lets take a look at this image below. Let’s try to think about 2 or 3 objects we can see and focus on what calls our attention the most. If we write them down , lets see if Google can guess it right. Google’s cloud-based vision API – making sense of what we see and much more Google Cloud’s Vision API offers powerful pre-trained machine learning models that you can easily use on your desktop and mobile applications through REST…