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For years, FNC Maps has given VCL and FMX developers one component that talks to Google Maps, Azure Maps, HERE, Mapbox, Leaflet and half a dozen other providers through a single, consistent API. It is one of those components people forget is...

In my last post I mentioned that I needed some data that I couldn't get directly from Google Analytics, so I had to find my way. In this post I am going a little deeper on how I did it. Note that this is going to be kind of technical, and I assume th...

Introduction Some days ago I was speaking with a friend, and at a certain moment I realized that we were mentioning too many statistics made on the spot. About 93.6% to be more exact. At that time I remembered that we do have access to the statistics...

One shortcut I use from the old Windows 3.1 days is to double click at the top-left icon of a window in order to close it: It is not that I dislike the "x" at the right of the window, or that I have irreconcilable differences with Alt-F4, it is j...

So we have this hypothetical situation: Let's imagine a customer sends me an email asking me how to change the margins in an Excel sheet. I read the email, I fire Visual Studio or Delphi, and spend the next half hour of my life writing a small demo ...

Introduction: “Friends don't let friends use OLE Automation” Before starting I would like to warn that this article is mostly about my personal views and opinions. While all articles are subjective and influenced by what the writer is thinking, it i...