We have three weekly online events this quarter that developers will want to register for and attend. Each Tuesday we have our RAD Studio XE7 Developer Skill Sprints. Each Thursday we have the new FireDAC Developer Skill Sprints. Each Friday, we have the new Embarcadero Technology Partner Spotlights. Register for each of the series separately and learn how to get more productivity and project success. Developer Skill Sprints - every Tuesday at 6am, 11am and 5pm Pacific Time It’s the new year a...

Delphi finished 9th in the Twitter #Code2014 rankings. [Read more]  ...

Delphi developers received a wonderful holiday present - the announcement of the 2015 Delphi Developer Days Tour! Delphi Developer Days 2015. Providing two intesive days of Delphi technical training, Cary Jensen and Ray Konopka will be visiting Chicago (April 13-14), Amsterdam (April 23-24), Oslo (May 7-8) and Frankfurt (May 11-12). Read the press release announcement - http://www.delphideveloperdays.com/press_release.html Read Cary's blog post about the tour's agenda - http://caryje...

Back in 2010, I wrote a blog post with a simple Delphi VCL program "The Developer's 12 Days of Christmas" which displayed the traditional lyrics and my attempt at some updated technology based lyrics. For 2014, I've created a FireMonkey version of the same application. Similar to the original sample, this multi-device FMX version has two TButtons and a TMemo. I have added a TToolBar component and also made sure that the buttons are half of the TToolBar's width and resize based on the target...

You can watch the replays of the CodeRage 9 Delphi/Object Pascal track sessions on YouTube. These sessions will help you modernize your VCL applications, learn more about multi-device and mobile development using FireMonkey, connect with SQL databases using FireDAC, build enterprise class mobile applications with Enterprise Mobility Services, add speed to your VCL and FireMonkey applications using the new Parallel Programming Library, become a better Object Pascal programmer by learning from som...

Did you miss the recent RAD Studio XE7 tour stops? Join David I as he gives a live online version of the event. RAD Studio XE7 is the single biggest jump forward for 32-bit and 64-bit VCL and FireMonkey applications! Get tips for modernizing your VCL applications and extending them to mobile and the Internet of Things. Come join other members of the Embarcadero community for this last live online webinar of the year focused on RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7. I will be live demoing a wide...

The CodeRage 9 session videos are now viewable on the Embarcadero YouTube channel. Video replays of the sessions and live Q&A are posted for the C++ and Object Pascal tracks. You can access the videos using the following YouTube playlist URLs: C++ Track: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwUPJvR9mZHgQ8WRCJkk8LKA0_ucuDOt1   Object Pascal Track: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwUPJvR9mZHhgQYWWgF6BCkgDwIpP78ZV...

The theme of this year's CodeRage 9 free, online virtual conference is "You are the Developers of Things, Everything!" CodeRage has more than 80 technical sessions covering programming, app development, multi-device app design, database programming, distributed computer, devices, gadgets, wearables and the Internet of Things.  The Internet of Things is covered in many of the technical sessions that take place next Tuesday (October 28), Wednesday (October 29) and Thursday (October 30). The f...

It was great to see an article about RAD Studio XE7 in Visual Studio Magazine. Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio have been strong supporters of Microsoft Windows for many years. In recent years we have added support for multiple devices including the Windows, OSX, iOS and Android platforms. In recent releases we have added even more support for Windows including touch, multi-touch, multi-screen, Bluetooth and more. We also continue to support our Windows allowing you to use our Visual Component ...

The Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 Java2OP command line utility is ready for registgered users to download. Java2OP.exe ("Java To Object Pascal") is a command-line tool that you can use to generate Object Pascal native bridge files from Java libraries (JAR or class files). You can use the generated files to provide your applications access to those Java libraries on Android. Available to registered users of RAD Studio XE7, Delphi XE7 and C++Builder XE7 (except Starter editions) and Embarc...