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2020 space space 2021 space !

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To me 20 20 was space space, but 20 21 will be space !

Some space ! events coming up:

The inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Launch System, then back to the Moon in 2024 and to Mars?
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

SpaceX Serial number 9 (SN9) is up next – going up in orbit, Mars, here we come!
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Perseverance will be doing some extra scouting for us, countdown to landing on Mars…
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Happy space ! everyone

Spice up your Delphi application with online image content – 8 december 09:15

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Move beyond the confines of your application and add online content in
just 50 lines of code.

Join us with Alister Christie from New Zealand for this live Q&A and webinar on scraping the web for live and always up-to-date art work in your Delphi application.

In this session Alister shows you how to spice up your application with image content scraped from the WikiMedia website. Technologies used in this session are NetHTTP, JSON, Regular Expressions and XML storage with the ClientDataSet. At the end Alister goes down the rabbithole to add additional compatibility with a missing JPEG format in the VCL. Just for fun!

After this workshop you can easily use the code to create your own web crawler or scraper to add online content to your application. Please make sure the media you scrape can be used freely.

Register here:
https://www.barnsten.com/spice-up-your-delphi-application/

The Q&A at 09:45 will be handled by Alister (for him its 21:45), so this is a chance to meet him live online. I’ll be there as well.

DelphiCon 2020 – 17 – 19 november

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DelphiCon 2020Volgende week start de DelphiCon 2020 van 17 tot en met 19 november. Een online conference alleen over Delphi en niets anders dan Delphi.

Met ondermeer een sessie van Alister Christie met code en demos uit zijn boek Code Faster in Delphi. Ook een mooie sessie van Andrea Magni over zijn boek Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey. Ik kijk ook uit naar de sessie van Primož Gabrijelcic over zijn boek High Performance Delphi. Het is heerlijk om goed en mooi leesvoer te hebben over Delphi.

Heb jij of je klant net een 4K scherm gekocht? Neem dan ook even een kijkje bij de sessie van Ray Konopka over Leveraging High DPI in VCL Applications.

En mocht je ooit een keer een bug introduceren in je code dan kun je zeker de sessie van Bob Swart waarderen over Real-world CodeSite Logging Techniques.

Het volledige programma vindt je hier:
https://delphicon.embarcadero.com/schedule/

Vergeet ook niet de Delphi 10.4.1. compiler en LSP patch te installeren die vandaag is uitgekomen. Hierin wordt een bug gefixt in record alignment die je lastig kan vallen.

Code Faster in Delphi by Alister Christie

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Code Faster in Delphi by Alister ChristieHave you ever wondered what an experienced Delphi developer knows about how to code in Delphi? Particularly how to code FASTER in Delphi? This book has you covered!

Alister kindly invited me to read pre-press versions of this book and having seen it evolve into what it is now, I can only say it’s absolutely worth your time. In fact, you’ll probably regain the time spent reading this book in the first week after, when you apply its knowledge. It’s probably a Timey-Wimey kind of thing where you gain more time by using some time.

Alister Christie is a writer, but also an experienced Delphi developer and trainer and overall good guy. When we visited his family home in New Zealand his enthusiasm and vibrant energy combined with his kindness made it a very special experience for us.

For me this book is now a staple, a standard book every Delphi developer should have. Read it, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Delphi 10.4 Sydney

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Delphi 10.4 Sydney has all the right ingredients. From support for Android OpenJDK up to the soon to be required iOS Storyboard; it’s all there. The all new LSP adds syntactic sugar and the per control Windows VCL styling is the finishing touch.

For me the timely support for iOS storyboard is the winner, as Apple requires us to start using this on June 30th.

Support for Android OpenJDK is very cool, as this opens up the Android environment even more. Although you could already customize and modify just about anything in Delphi on Android (adding APIs and even CPU code), this makes it easier still.

And what about this LSP, the Language Server Protocol? We now have all kinds of syntax, code, class completion and what not in multiple LSP processes! This is also very open, allowing you to add your own. Most important for you as a developer, it’s asynchronous, so you’ll never lose keystrokes again, when code completion kicks in.

Starting from this release we now have the same classic unified memory model for all platforms. This means that you no longer have to write specific code for ARC (Automatic reference Counting) anymore, because its gone (except for strings and interfaces). If you’ve adhered to the CTFF (Create Try Finally Free) pattern on mobile platforms there is no need to change any code, if not, you may want to add a Free at some places in your source code.

Last, but not least, per control Windows VCL styling. It’s now possible to use multiple VCL styles in one application at the same time, even on the same form. This will allow you to mix and match your main VCL style with form specific styling to better match specific styling of certain third-party controls you can not VCL style themselves. Finishing touch indeed.

All features can be found right here: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/What%27s_New

You can download Delphi 10.4 Sydney from the new customer portal here: https://my.embarcadero.com/#downloadsPage The online web installer and the offline ISO installer are now compatible with one another. The ISO file contains the files the web installer would otherwise download, so you can choose the method you prefer.

DAPUG Denmark – October 2019

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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

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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

CodeRage 2018 – 4-6 December 2018

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CodeRage 2018 is just around the corner!

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The complete schedule:
https://www.embarcadero.com/coderage-2018

This CodeRage I’m showing you how to build microservices and how to consume them from desktop, Android mobile and using a HTML / JavaScript web app. The web app uses TMS WebCore and PAS2JS, but goes beyond basic coding as it also shows you how to convert the web app to a Progressive Web App, or PWA for short

The boilerplate code is of course available for download, please use it to jump start your own software.

Oh, and the nice thing about PWA, an Android device will offer the user the option to install the web app as an actual app with an icon on the start screen. Good stuff!

Register here, it’s free but infinite value for money:
https://www.embarcadero.com/coderage-2018

Delphi 10.3 Rio

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Delphi 10.3 Rio has been released today!

The most awaited new feature is of course support for Android 8 and 9. As you may recall Google made changes to its requirements for new apps in the app store. These requirements are now all met. Please remember to also use the new PermissionsService.RequestPermissions to request permissions for the app at runtime.

If you’re into nitty gritty details, the internal coding for parameters of methods has changed, allowing better compatibility between C++ and Delphi. What it boils down to is that for 64-bit code more parameters (between 5 an up to 8 byte in size) are now passed to functions using CPU registers, where they would previously be passed as pointers to the actual data. This speeds some code up quite a bit. (sorry messed this up) using pointers to the actual data. This only influences your Delphi code if you use Assembler or direct addresses, usual pascal code needs no modification.

There are also some changes in the way that JSON is serialized. If you are using REST webservices with clients you may need to update both to Rio at the same time, to achieve interoperability. This mainly affects JSON serialization that internally uses RTTI. Its more efficient, but may break some existing code.

For the full list of new things take a look at http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/What%27s_New

Delphi Academy start volgende week

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Delphi Academy is een geheel vrijblijvende en voor stagiairs, afstudeerders, scholieren gratis toegankelijk opleiding tot Delphi developer.

Delphi Academy LogoIn een eerdere meetup met Delphi MVPs hebben we het erover gehad. Zou het niet mooi zijn als er een open opleiding zou bestaan om je te scholen tot Delphi developer?

Delphi Academy is zo’n een traject, en in 3 maanden worden de deelnemers opgeleid tot junior Delphi developer. Lukt het je alles mee te doen, aan het eind weet elke werkgever; deze kanidaat weet al heel veel.

Je kunt echter ook gewoon deelnemen aan enkele van de trainingen of course en praktikum dagen. De trainingen zijn Open voor deelname vanuit het bedrijfsleven, de overige zijn voor Stage, voor stagiairs en afstudeerders of voor iedereen die affiniteit heeft met ICT en zich wil omscholen.

En ja, het is echt vrijblijvend, geen verplichtingen achteraf.

Doe je ook mee?

Meer informatie en inschrijven: https://delphiacademy.nl/