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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
Book Image

Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By: David Cornelius

Overview of this book

Delphi is a strongly typed, event-driven programming language with a rich ecosystem of frameworks and support tools. It comes with an extensive set of web and database libraries for rapid application development on desktop, mobile, and internet-enabled devices. This book will help you keep up with the latest IDE features and provide a sound foundation of project management and recent language enhancements to take your productivity to the next level. You’ll discover how simple it is to support popular mobile device features such as sensors, cameras, and GPS. The book will help you feel comfortable working with FireMonkey and styles and incorporating 3D user interfaces in new ways. As you advance, you’ll be able to build cross-platform solutions that not only look native but also take advantage of a wide array of device capabilities. You’ll also learn how to use embedded databases, such as SQLite and InterBase ToGo, synchronizing them with your own custom backend servers or modules using the powerful RAD Server engine. The book concludes by sharing tips for testing and deploying your end-to-end application suite for a smooth user experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deliver modern enterprise applications using Delphi confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming Power
5
Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
11
Section 3: Mobile Power
15
Section 4: Server Power

Getting started with the Apache HTTP server

The Apache Software Foundation has a plethora of open source software projects. Their HTTP server is probably the most well-known. Oftentimes, when people hear the Apache web server being mentioned, they automatically associate it with Linux, and while that may be the overwhelmingly largest platform on which it can be found, it also runs on Windows.

The Apache server is frequently paired with the MySQL database engine and the PHP scripting language. In fact, this is so common that these parts are often packaged together. When discussing these on the Linux platform, it's call Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP); on Windows, it's called WAMP. We won't be using MySQL or PHP, so when you're looking at download options, note that these packages will contain more than what we will work with in this book. However, if you have the time and curiosity, feel free to install this suite of tools and explore – there are many...