If You are a Delphi programmer, you probably know about very high coolness factor of FireMonkey. In fact there are many developers out there that has never heard about FireMonkey and Embarcadero and there are big chances that they are familiar with C++. There is a good news for them! They can be productive right away in FireMonkey C++ coding and create native apps for multiple platforms from the same source code! I'm a Delphi programmer, but when I read the C++Builder roadmap information I fe...

Today I have been presenting "FireMonkey 3D Programming" session on the SDE event in Zeist in the Netherlands. Bob Swart was so kind and invited me to present on the first session of the day in the "Delphi" conference track and I wanted to prepare a brand new demo to show off the power of FireMonkey. There is more and more FireMonkey resources available online, including new "FireMonkey blog", FireMonkey Info page, FireMonkey quickstart tutorials and many more. Some of the best FireMonkey cod...

Delphi XE2 has been just released and there is more and more information about it on various blogs, technical portals and other locations in the Web. Here are just few of them: RAD Studio XE2 World Tour SDTimes Latest News: Embarcadero Enters Business Application Platform Space Dr. Dobb's TV Lounge: Interview with Michael Swindell on RAD Studio XE2 SourceForge: RAD Studio XE2 Demos Andreano Lanusse Blog: Trial, Datasheet, Feature Matrix and FAQ for XE2 release available! Online ...

Here is my handy collection of links to blog posts and resources related to new Delphi 2010 features. Enjoy and GO DELPHI !!! 1. General Reviews RAD Studio 2010 Review – Part 1: Top 10 "Wings of Wind" blogpost showing new Delphi 2010 splash screen RAD Studio 2010 - Delphi and C++Builder Reviewer's Guide Delphi 2010 Reviewers Guide A few of my favorite IDE features in Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010, RAD Studio 2010 David I blogs about his favourite new Delphi 2010 IDE features ...

In few hours I'm going to do a free live webinar "Globalise your Delphi applications" (June 16, 2009 4:00 PM CEST). Please go ahead and register here (BTW: Two hours later there is a very interesting "InterBase - The Vault" webinar by Daniel Magin on InterBase SMP 2009 new security features (June 16, 6:00 PM CEST)). During "Globalise your Delphi applications" webinar I'm going to discuss what is Unicode, new UnicodeString type added in Delphi 2009 to the compiler, new "Character" unit with Un...

Delphi and C++Builder 2009 are considered by many developers that I have met recently the best versions ever of these two great products. There are significant improvements at all levels of product functionality, starting from new Unicode support, new programming languages features, improvements to RTL/VCL, IDE improvements and brand new DataSnap client/server architecture. Here are some of the Delphi and C++Builder 2009 online resources categorized for your convenience:-) Embarcadero Upda...

Happy New Year to all developers in the World! Just got back from Christmas/New Year holiday in Poland. I have planned to do some sking, but it was just too warm, and hardly any snow. Had great time though. Windows Workflows turned out to be very interesting technology to look at, however recent posts from David I, and Nick Hodges brought my attention to dynamic languages in general, and specifically to php. While waiting for the plane I have spotted an interesing magazine "PHPsolutions". ...