Delphi Update Training – 9 en 10 februari 2017

Net overgestapt naar de nieuwste Delphi versie, of al wat langer bezig met Delphi 10 Seattle of Berlin?

Kom dan naar de Delphi 10 Update Training om je kennis op te vijzelen met de nieuwe features en mogelijkheden. Op donderdag 9 en vrijdag 10 februari 2017 gaan we in Etten-Leur de mooiste, belangrijkste en nuttigste onderwerpen behandeln die Delphi erbij heeft gekregen sinds Delphi 2010. We gaan dus van Delphi 2010 naar Delphi 10.

We behandelen ondermeer Unicode, FireDAC, Parallel Programming (PPL), FireMonkey, Livebindings, maar ook advanced language features zoals Generics en anonymous methods.

Meer info en inschrijven kan hier.

Delphi 10.1 Berlin Firemonkey en Android Training

Op donderdag 24 en vrijdag 25 november is er een Delphi 10.1 Berlin Firemonkey en Android training.

Ben je al ervaren in Delphi met de VCL, maar wil je verder met multi-platform (OSX, iOS, Android) dan is deze combinatie FireMonkey Power en Android App training misschien iets voor jou. Leer in 2 dagen het FireMonkey framework en Android app development kennen.

Meer info vindt je hier:

Delphi 10.1 Berlin FireMonkey en Android

En inschrijven kan via Barnsten:

https://www.barnsten.com/nl/development-tools/training/delphi-android-training

Delphi Berlin For Free

Did you know you can use Delphi for free with the free Delphi Berlin Starter edition? If you want you can get started right know:
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/promotional-download

If you are a hobbyist, a student or just starting your own development, the Starter Edition is just fine. You can develop serious Windows desktop software with this version, as it includes a lot of the features you need, such as support for HTTP(S) requests including JSON and BSON that would allow you to consume WebServices. It even includes FMX, so you could start building visually stunning stuff with DirectX accelerated GUI graphics. Looking at the complete feature set will give you an idea of what’s possible out of the box, and although not mentioned here the ClientDataset in-memory table is actually part of Delphi Starter:
https://www.embarcadero.com/docs/rad-studio-berlin-feature-matrix.pdf

Daniel Wolf did some research on what you can do with the Starter Edition; his conclusion was that you could write software for an airport with Delphi Starter. Read his nicely detailed article here.

And don’t forget, this edition allows you to use and install third-party components as well. And there are a lot of Delphi Components out there.

Best Delphi Android development device

What is the best phone or tablet to use when developing Delphi apps for Android?
This is a recurring question on conferences and workshops. My short answer is “any of the Google Nexus phones or tablets”. These are Google’s developer devices with special features.

Please note that the choice of devices for end-users of the app you write in Delphi just about spans the entire Android market, and is in no way limited to Nexus or Pixel devices. You can basically run Delphi Android apps on almost any modern Android device; more about that later.

The best Delphi Android development device should have the following characteristics:

The Nexus / Pixel line of devices supports all of the above, whilst also pushing ahead with the latest hardware features.

Continue reading here: Best Delphi Android development device

DAPUG Denmark – October 2016

Jens Fudge very kindly invited me as a speaker on the DAPUG workshop on October 25 and 26. I was honoured and I will do my best to make my presentations live up to the expectations of the DAPUG members.

On these two days I will talk about the expanding world of Delphi. Delphi is no longer just a desktop development platform for Windows, but for a while now has allowed their developers to build apps and applications for iOS, Android, Mac and soon Linux. But it is even expanding beyond that with built-in support for Bluetooth LE devices on all platforms as well as IoT components to interact with physical devices like lights, locks, and many other IoT devices. Delphi definitely is “One source to rule them all”.

The details of the program for these two days is listed here: http://alt.dapug.dk/ws25102016.htm

Delphi Festival Utrecht – 20 september 2016

Delphi 10.1 Berlin, met de Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Preview van Delphi back-end software op Linux, VCL updates, mobiele toepassingen, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, PDF printing, MARS en REST, Spring4D en een kijkje in de Embarcadero R&D Labs. Er is zoveel te zien dat je je geen moment zult vervelen.

De sprekers zijn Pawel Glowacki, Mattias Gartner, Boian Mitov, Girish Patil, Vladimir Andretsov, Marco Geuze, Stefan Glienke, Andrea Magni, Bruno Fierens, Danny Wind en Olaf Monien.

Meer info en inschrijven:
Delphi Festival Utrecht – 20 september

Delphi Benelux 2016 Congress 26 mei 2016

Dit wordt weer iets bijzonders, in het Evoluon in Eindhoven.

Stephen Ball is er bij met Interbase en Visual Livebindings sessies. Als je nog vragen had over Interbase, Stephen is de expert. Paweł Głowacki laat alle nieuwe features zien van Delphi 10.1 Berlin en heeft hiervoor enkele fraaie demos geschreven. Bob Swart heeft twee leuke sessies; upgrade VCL naar Delphi 10.1 Berlin en database programming met FireDAC. Zelf heb een sessie over IoT Home Automation, waar ik de Vera Plus hub gebruik met Delphi. Deelnemers krijgen de nieuwe Fibaro Wall Plug software component om het Fibaro stopcontact die in NL makkelijk verkrijgbaar is aan te sturen. Verder een sessie over multi-tier met een RESTful API, waarin ik o.a. laat zien hoe je in Delphi een full compliant REST server kunt maken met GET/PUT/POST/DELETE. Als afsluiter een sessie over Bluetooth Beacons, waarbij ik enkele Raspberry Pi 3’s inzet als flexibele en remote controllable Beacons.

Meer info en inschrijven:
http://www.barnsten.com/nl/events/details?events_id=202

Delphi 10.1 Berlin

Delphi 10.1 Berlin has been released today!

This release has lots of useful new features, small and large. Such as asynchonous dialogs in Windows and OSX (ShowMessage is now async in OSX), support in the IDE for Android Smartwatch apps, support for Android 6.0, IoT devices, and much more.

FireUI Live Preview wil give you an actual preview of how your application will look when actually run on the target operating system. Not only very cool, but also very useful.

Also many small (and not so small) bugfixes. For instance in the way TTask internally handles WaitForAll. The bugfix there now correctly handles many small Tasks switching back and forth. Not something you are likely to encounter, but good to have fixed nonetheless. A thank you to Allen Bauer for fixing this.

For the full list of new things take a look at Whats New in Delphi 10.1 Berlin. We will also demonstrate these new features at the Delphi Benelux 2016 Congress on the 26th of May in the Evoluon in Eindhoven, where Pawel Glowacki, Bob Swart, Stephen Ball and Danny Wind will show you how to use all these new goodies.