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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from Delphi Cookbook Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788621304

Length 668 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Delphi

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Spinetti

Daniele Teti

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Dedication

Preface

1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja

3. Knowing Your Friends – The Delphi RTL

4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey

5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

6. Putting Delphi on the Server

7. Linux Development

8. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

9. Using specific platform features

10. Delphi and IoT

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Index

Creating Linux TCP/IP servers

Linux has always been a highly appreciated operating system, especially for the server-side. So what better start for development on Linux? Creating a small TCP/IP server.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we're going to create a TCP/IP server that listens on a port for incoming requests from a TCP client. These client requests can then be processed at the server, and a response can be sent back to the client.

The server we are going to build will listen for client commands. It will always return the reverse string of the command passed, unless you pass the quit command; in that case, it will disconnect the client.

This recipe is very simple, but it will be of great help in taking the first steps in development for Linux.

INDY is a fantastic library, appreciated and widely used by Delphi developers. INDY offers client and server components for using internet protocols, such asTCP, UDP, Echo, FTP, HTTP, Telnet, and many others. The good news is that it is also available...

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Authors (2)

Spinetti

Spinetti

Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD.

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Daniele Teti

Daniele Teti

Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 20 years of experience. He drives the development of the most popular Delphi open source project on GitHubDelphiMVCFramework. He's also a huge fan of design patterns, machine learning, and AI. Daniele is the CEO of BIT Time Professionals, an Italian company specializing in high-level consultancy, training, development, and machine learning systems.

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