Delphi 10 Tokyo Update and Firemonkey-Android Power training March-2018

On March 8th and 9th we have the Delphi 10 Tokyo Firemonkey and Android Power training planned in Etten-Leur in the Netherlands. In just two days you will learn how to develop an Android App in Delphi, with high level features in the GUI down to high tech stuff when interacting with the Java side. This training is available in both English and Dutch. Registration can be found here.

A week after, on March 15th and 16th, we have the Delphi 10 Tokyo Update training in our agenda. As one of the previous attendees told me a couple of weeks after attending this training “I’ve learned so many new things in these two days; I especially liked the (PPL) TTasks chapter”. This one is only available in Dutch, registration can be found here. Note: due to a conflict in planning with an on-site training this open training has been moved to April 19th and 20th.

CodeRage XII Modernizing your VCL application

Thank you for watching my session on Modernizing your VCL application at CodeRage XII.

If you want to watch the video again, you can use this YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/qKy1QEuj4Es

Slides, source code and database for this webinar is available for download here:
https://dannywind.nl/get/DannyWind_ModernizingYourVCLApplication.zip

The zip file is password protected to add some level of security to it.
The password is coderagexii

Additional Tips:

The Windows-10 styles can be modified or appended with your own styling using Tools | Bitmap Style Designer.

When using a TTask to get things done in the background, avoid sharing resources with the main thread. Either disable access from the main thread to these resources or create copies for the TTask. After that feedback the results to the main thread using TThread.Queue or TThread.Synchronize.

When using TTask, use a task-based approach just like you would in the real world when you let a colleague do a task. Just delegate an entire task with the required resources (memory, file handles, connections, datasets) to a TTask and allow the task to feedback its results at the end of the task. Avoid using locking as this can easily lead to deadlocks, waitlocks and other blocking effects.

When using Change Views keep in mind that the first time a subscription is activated on the Change View it will return all records, as it does not yet know which records you have already received for the specified subscription identifier.

Change View subscription identifiers should be unique but repeatable for each running application instance. Create an identifier, such as [MachineName+UserName] and use it to activate the subscription. If the application is stopped and then run again, it can activate the subscription using the same identifier, so you will get the changes back again.

CodeRage XII – Modernizing your VCL application

If you haven’t already sign up for this years CodeRage XII conference.

CodeRage XII is an online conference for three days starting Tuesday Nov 7th on 13:00 in the afternoon (CET, Amsterdam time), until Thursday Nov 9th at one a clock in the night.

There are a lot of interesting sessions this year, covering everything from JSON to Linux Libraries, Amazon data storage to running on Arduino with Visuino. And many more.

Key speakers this year are Robert C. Martin on Clean Coding and Agile, Marco Cantu on ExtJS, and of course our own Paweł Głowacki on Amazon data storage integration.

I’ve got a session as well, on Modernizing your VCL application. It takes a Webshop BackOffice application and re-styles it for Windows-10 and 2017, removes the user wait times by using FireDAC Async SQL and TTask from the Parallel Programming Library (PPL) and uses Interbase Change Views to take a first step to changing from a save/load based approach to a state-based application, where the user always has the latest data available.

Delphi 10 Update Training – 14 en 15 december 2017

Ben je al wat langer met Delphi bezig, kom dan naar de Delphi 10 Update Training om je kennis op te vijzelen met de nieuwe features en mogelijkheden.

Op donderdag 14 en vrijdag 15 december 2017 stomen we je klaar voor al je goede Delphi voornemens in 2018 met de mooiste, belangrijkste en nuttigste onderwerpen behandelen die Delphi erbij heeft gekregen sinds Delphi 2010.

We behandelen in deze twee dagen heel veel Delphi onderwerpen; Unicode, FireDAC, Parallel Programming (PPL), FireMonkey, Livebindings, maar ook advanced language features zoals Generics en anonymous methods.

Er is ook ruimte voor eigen inbreng en vragen. Heb je interesse in Interbase ChangeViews bijvoorbeeld, dan kunnen we dat ook behandelen.

Meer info en inschrijven voor kan hier.

Accelerate Your Delphi Development – European Delphi Tour 2017 – 19 mei 2017

Op 19 mei 2017 hebben we een evenement dat net iets anders is dan anders. Het nieuwste van Delphi 10.2 Tokyo is namelijk niet alleen de focus van deze dag. Op verzoek van deelnemers aan eerdere evenementen laten we die dag ook zien op welke manier je je bestaande Delphi applicaties kunt moderniseren met de recente features van Delphi.

Natuurlijk zie je ook de nieuwste features van Delphi 10.2 Tokyo; zoals back-end software op Intel Linux, MariaDB toegang, en demo’s van enkele van de fraaie nieuwe VCL en FMX componenten. Paweł Głowacki laat al dat fraais natuurlijk graag zien. Maar er is meer dan dat alleen.

Is je applicatie nu nog Client/Server of maak je gebruik van eigen Datasnap? In zijn sessie laat Bob Swart zien hoe je gebruik kunt maken van RAD Server voor een snellere Time-To-Market en een eenvoudige manier om in te stappen in multi-tier services, zonder dat je zelf servers hoeft te gaan hosten.

Is je applicatie nu nog straight VCL? In mijn sessie laat ik zien hoe je in korte tijd met beperkte inspanning de User Experience significant kunt verbeteren. In deze sessie zet ik een VCL applicatie om naar een moderne User Interface met tactile feedback, een dashboard en technieken als background threading en Async SQL. Gebruikers verwachten een applicatie die eenvoudig toegankelijk en overzichtelijk is, maar ook één die onmiddelijk reageert en die samenwerkt i.p.v. vertraagt. Oh ja, uiteraard mooi gestyled, dat ook.

Meer info en inschrijven:
Accelerate Your Delphi Development – European Delphi Tour 2017 – 19 mei 2017

Delphi 10.2 Tokyo

Delphi 10.2 Tokyo has been released today!

The new feature I’m most excited about is the support for Linux server-side. We can now build server applications on Linux, allowing us to deploy webservices and all other kinds of server-side stuff to all those Linux servers out there. Officially only Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 are supported, but with some tinkering you can also run on some of the other Linux platforms. Other good news for Linux compilation, it is seriously fast!

A feature that’s important to me is Multi-Threading Support for TBitmap, TCanvas and TContext3D. This will allow you to more easily render images in a background thread. Games anyone? Actually I plan to use this feature for my Delphi presentation for teachers at the Dutch Gymnasium schools. Thinking that using a gaming element could get teenage students enthusiastic about programming.
https://www.slbdiensten.nl/slb/nieuws/evenementen/infosessie-programmeertaal-delphi

But there is a lot of other stuff to look into. If you go low-level you might like the fact that the FireMonkey framework now no longer has a purgatory class, making it more predictable an stable.

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