The latest version of RAD Studio, version 12.2, was recently released and among the many enhancements was the introduction of a new template engine called WebStencils. It's the new generation of text processing for WebBroker and RAD Server applications that produce HTML on web servers but can also be utilized in apps of all kinds that need to generate template-based text output. I decided to build two apps, one using PageProducers and one using WebStencils, to see how they compare.

Delphi's Data Explorer pane in the IDE can be quite useful for quickly viewing the structure of a table or assigning connection properties to components in your programs. I had several of these definitions created--but lost them temporarily in the most recent Delphi upgrade.

GExperts is one of the oldest and probably the most well-known plug-in for the Delphi IDE. I've been using it since the early versions and still use it in Delphi 12 today. Here is a list of how I personally have used GExperts to improve my productivity over the last 20+ years.

Did you know you can perform many aspects of build automation right within the Delphi IDE on your own desktop?

It's never too late to learn something new with your favorite programming tool. I've been using Delphi since version 1 but I just learned a couple of weeks ago that linking with runtime packages is more flexible than I realized--and it will make a small improvement to how I deploy packages for certain applications.

Back in May of 2022, I wrote about a predicament I found myself in with multiple websites built in Drupal and the chore of upgrading. I began to look around and discovered others were turning to static web page builders. After building a few sites last year, I took some time over the holidays to convert a local Delphi user group site from Drupal to Hugo.

I needed to write a DLL to access a SOAP webservice--without using the WSDL Importer with which I am so familiar. My mind went blank, so I turned to ChatGPT and it solved the problem for me in very little time!