Over Danny

Delphi trainer en ontwikkelaar.

iOS storyboard support in Delphi 10.4

No worries, the iOS storyboard that Apple requires for iOS Apps starting June 30th is covered in the soon to be released Delphi 10.4.

The way you add a iOS storyboard is, as always in Delphi, very easy to use. Just head over to Project Options | Icons and reconfigure your launch images. Also set the new Dark and Light background, and you’re done.

The other requirements added by Apple may or may not mean you have to add or change some of your code. Please use the news item from Apple to review any necessary changes at https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03262020b.

It’s good to know that everything we need for our iOS development is there, and, well, I just had to share this tiny bit of information. Thanks to Jim McKeeth for allowing me to share this with you before Delphi 10.4 ships.

Delphi 10.4 Coming Soon

Delphi 10 Parallel Programming Training – 10 en 11 juni 2020 (verplaatst)

Altijd al willen weten hoe je al die CPU cores voor je kunt laten werken in Delphi?

In deze twee daagse training gaan we gebruik maken van de System.Threading bibliotheek in Delphi, ook wel de PPL, Parallel Programming Library genoemd.

We starten eenvoudig met TTask en TFuture en TParallel.For en breiden dan uit naar hoe je dit eenvoudig, robuust en zonder dead locks toepast in je database verbindingen, communicatie met webservices en andere taken die je asynchroon wilt uitvoeren.

Maak je applicatie meer responsive en gebruik die cores!

De training is ingepland voor 10 en 11 juni bij het jachthuis te Doorn (nabij Utrecht).
Dit event is verplaatst in verband met het corona virus en wordt later opnieuw ingepland.

https://www.barnsten.com/nl/product-categorie/rad-studio-tools-nl/parallel-programming-training/

SDN Event – 3 april 2020 (verplaatst)

Het SDN event van vrijdag 3 april komt er aan!

Op die dag gaan we aan de slag met Micro Services, hoe maak je die in Delphi, maar belangrijker nog, hoe deploy je die op IIS/Windows en op Apache/Linux. En ook, hoe zorg je voor automated certificate renewal voor je https met Let’s Encrypt?

Verder hebben we een, denken wij, leuk idee voor een shoot out sessie. Samen met Cary Jensen heb ik in Denemarken een dergelijke sessie gedaan, maar dan bijna een hele dag. Met de deelnemers samen behandelen we elk onderwerp dat jullie aandragen, met code snippets en jullie ideëén maken we er een interactieve sessie van. Waar moet je aan denken? Bijvoorbeeld code snippets met TStringBuilder, TFDMemtable local storage met Lockbox encryption, embedding assembler, fun met RTTI, of…. wat denken jullie?

https://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/3-april-2020

Dit event is verplaatst in verband met het corona virus. Hopelijk zien we elkaar weer in juni!

Happy Delphi 25th birthday!

#Delphi25th

Happy Delphi 25th birthday!

Wow, its been 25 years already since I first met Delphi in its pre-release of version 1.0.

During the past 25 years Delphi created a world of opportunities for me. I’ve travelled the world for Delphi, creating software in Portugal, Delphi courses in France, presenting in Denmark and meeting up with developers in New Zealand. Most of my work was in the Netherlands, but even so its diversity of use in this tiny country always manages to amaze me. From high-performance statistics, stock market, multi-threaded geo analysis, insurance expert systems to project and hour registration systems. The largest user base for desktop software I worked on was 100.000+ users, but I know of Delphi software that has millions of users. All in all, you can literally find Delphi software everywhere, meaning you get to go everywhere and build all kinds of systems as a Delphi developer, which to me is just the greatest thing!

More stories here:
https://embt.co/Delphi25thWebinar

Happy Delphi 25th Birthday and #Delphi25th everyone!

 

Delphi 10 VCL Essentials training – 11-13 maart 2020

We beginnen het nieuwe jaar goed met nu al een driedaagse Delphi 10 VCL Essentials training in de planning, op woensdag 11 maart tot en met vriidag 13 maart in de mooie locatie van het Jachthuis Beukenrode in Doorn.

De training is bedoeld voor coders en developers met enige ervaring in programmeren in  Delphi of een andere programmeeromgeving die graag snel en goed Delphi willen leren of beter leren kennen. We beginnen met een overview van alles wat je met Delphi en de VCL kunt, maar gaan ook in op details als de event-loop en de interne werking van de VCL (visual component library) en RTL (run-time library). In de driedaagse training leer je je Windows applicaties maken met Delphi, gebruik maken van een database via FireDAC. Verder in-memory en local datasets, debugging, de RTL, Windows-10 styling en zelfs wat generics.

Inschrijven en details van de agenda vindt je hier:
https://www.barnsten.com/nl/product-categorie/rad-studio-tools-nl/trainingen/

CodeRage 2019 RAD Server Key Value sessions

Thank you for attending my CodeRage 2019 sessions on RAD Server.

The Key Value storage created, deployed and used in the sessions is very simple to build, but also very versatile in its use. Hopefully you will find as many, or even more, uses as I have for the Key Value server code in your own projects with RAD Server.

If you want to replay the sessions, please visit the CodeRage 2019 playlist on YouTube here.

Please find the download with Delphi sources and a partial emsserver.ini here:
Download source and emsserver.ini
The download has been compressed with RAR with password coderage2019
and has the following SHA-256 checksum
26c45c2079e4fa359541c78f444ebfd8e8a2f43005a0d6c1038040a82ed3c8f1

David Intersimone (DavidI) has created an excellent handbook on RAD Server which can be found here.

Have fun creating your own RAD Server solutions!

Some after session thoughts

In an attempt to shorten the RADServerKeyValue Client video a part of the video at the end was removed that should not have been removed. This involves using a key/value pair with uploading a larger or more complex text. The source code in the rar file you can download has the correct source code.

This Key Value store code has special handling for any key with a value ‘body’. In response to this keyword the RAD Server Key Value package assumes the body of the Request contains a UTF8 encoded text to be placed in the value for the dictionary. This makes it possible to put text in the Key Value storage that would be difficult to put as a URL parameter, either due to size constraints for URL segments, or due to special characters not allowed in URL parameters.

By setting the recycle time of the IIS ISAPI to 24 hours, the in-memory Key Value pairs will remain available for that period. If you want you can add persistency for this dictionary by storing the data in a database in the RAD Server backend.

You may want to add manual support for different MIME types with EndPointProduce and EndpointConsume and use EMSFileResource and EMSDBResource to feed files or database tables back to the client.

 

Delphi 10 Rio VCL Essentials training – 27-29 november 2019

De driedaagse Delphi 10 VCL Essentials training start 27 november 2019 op de mooie locatie van het Jachthuis Beukenrode in Doorn.

De training is bedoeld voor developers met enige ervaring in programmeren. Maar ook ervaren ontwikkelaars waarderen hem, niet alleen door de overview van alles wat je met Delphi en de VCL kunt, maar ook door de deep-dive in details als de event-loop en de interne werking van de VCL (visual component library) en RTL (run-time library). In de driedaagse training leer je je Windows applicaties maken met Delphi, gebruik maken van een database via FireDAC. Verder in-memory en local datasets, debugging, de RTL, Windows-10 styling en zelfs wat generics.

Inschrijven en details van de agenda vindt je hier:
https://www.barnsten.com/nl/development-tools/training/delphi-essentials-vcl-training

DAPUG Denmark – October 2019

This year Jens Fudge kindly invited both Cary Jensen and me over to present at the DAPUG workshop in Denmark on October 22nd and 23rd.

On the first day we’ll have separate sessions. Cary takes the lead with all things FireDAC while I’ll cover webservices, client apps and progressive web apps. The second day we’ll be presenting together. These sessions will be very dynamic indeed, as we’ll not only cover the subjects as planned, but also interact with the audience to get the most out of Delphi for their code.

As a teaser; did you know you can search for all occurences of substrings in a book of a million words in just microseconds?

The details of the program for these two days in Denmark is listed here: http://alt.dapug.dk/ws22102019.htm

Additionally both Jens and Cary will be speaking at this years EKON 23.

Delphi Day 2019 – May 9 in Brussel

Get ready for the future with the sessions of the Delphi Day 2019.

We kick off with a session about RAD Server. Start using webservices now, with this easy turn-key solution. Delphi Rio Enterprise includes a single-site deployment license for unlimited users, so you can start using it for free. In my session on RAD Server i’ll cover the architecture and how and why its (now) fast, unrestrained and easy to setup and maintain.

In the following sesions, Bob Swart will help you modernize your Delphi language, making your code and applications ready for the future. Bruno Fierens is going to show you how to add HTML5 and JavaScript Apps to your application framework. Unlocking new options and possibilities for your customers. Jan Jacobs will show you how they used a SaaS and a combination of Delphi, nodejs and mongodb to create a high-performance cloud based transaction engine for retailers and webshops.

The focus of my afternoon session is future proofing your application architecture for 2020, a 2020 vision! I’ll demo several techniques to achieve this, like parallel code with TTask, visualization of workflow, adding spotlight search, companion apps and other quick-wins and tips

More information and registration can be found here:
https://www.barnsten.com/nl/events/details?events_id=361

SDN Event – 12 april 2019

Kom over een paar weken naar het SDN Event van 12 april in Zeist met onder andere een leuke sessie van Roy Janssen over deep fakes en het integreren van machine learning en AI in je software. Zelf duik ik samen met jullie onder in de CPU code die Delphi voor je compiled, onder andere om een wijziging in Rio in de ABI rondom parameter passing te laten zien, maar ook om je meer inzicht te geven in hoe een CPU die code uitvoert en waar je rekening mee moet houden in multi-threaded code.