RAD Studio XE3 is a very solid release to me. There are no new compilers since XE2, but there are many new features plus improvements in performance and architecture. This is quite obvious when looking into source code and refactorings of the second edition of FireMonkey framework, now called "FM2", and originally introduced in RAD Studio XE2 for cross-platform compilation to multiple operating systems. Architecting one framework and one code base for compiling for multiple different operatin...

Have you ever written a component in Delphi? Reusable components are the corner-stone of rapid application development and important part of Delphi success on the market. Being able to manipulate an instance of a class at design-time is where Delphi shines! One day I was looking at mocking up a FireMonkey turn-based board game. A screen with a board and names of two opponents. Next to every name - a turn indicator with a player score and ranking. In a typical design turn indicator is a triang...

FireMonkey is busy;-) I'm just back from Belgium where I was presenting FireMonkey, Delphi and RAD Studio XE2 in Lier at the event organized by Embarcadero-Benelux and PeopleWare. PeopleWare work closely with Embarcadero providing Delphi expertise to customers in Belgium. There are a lot discussions among developers which technologies to choose and to me it is becoming clear that there is nothing like native C++ and Delphi development for mobile and desktop. For simple applications ...

Go FireMonkey! That seems to be my motto recently. On the road again. Yesterday I was doing RAD Studio XE2 / Delphi XE2 / FireMonkey event in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands and it was big fun! Today I was presenting in Prague and probably for the first in a regular cinema:-) Everybody gets it! You only need to know one thing! Use Delphi or C++ to create native, compiled, super fast and super great looking application for multiple platforms from the very same source code! After la...

Yesterday I was playing with implementing "parallax" starfield simulation in a Delphi XE2 iOS HD project as documented here. To be honest at the beginning my plan was to implement a classic "deep space" starfield simulation, but could not find any code samples, so decided to go for a simpler "parallax" approach. I have posted my demo internally for other Embarcadero technical evangelists to enjoy and got back almost instantaneous feedback from David I: "Looks like falling rain. Was hoping for...

There is nothing like writing demo projects. Whenever I see an interesting piece of code, does not really matter in which language, I'm thinking about moving it to Delphi. Delphi XE2 is all about cross-platform and mobile development, so "moving to Delphi" specifically means for me these days "moving to Delphi iOS mobile app". Every framework and every language is different, so at one level it is about understanding syntactic difference between programming languages, and at the other level it...

I'm back from Philips High Tech Campus in Eindhoven where Embarcadero Benelux was hosting the event on creating Mac and mobile iOS applications with Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey. It was my first time to demonstrate deploying FireMonkey applications to physical devices: my new iPad and my iPhone. With "TScaledLayout" component it was possible to have one application that looked great on different screen sizes. That was a very good fun! It was not a completely standard event. We had a gues...

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...

I'm just sitting at the first day of Delphi Developer Days 2012 workshop organized by Cary Jensen and Marco Cantu in the city centre of Amsterdam. This is the second stop of the tour. Earlier this week DDD 2012 were delivered in London and next stops are Washington DC, Chicago, Frankfurt and Rome. Check out the details at http://www.delphideveloperdays.com/ I had the privilege to do a short "RAD Studio XE2" keynote presentation and also took this as the opportunity to introduce to the audienc...

Wir sind mal wieder unterwegs: http://www.embarcadero-info.com/de/in_action_live/index.html Und zwar in Wien, Münster, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Kassel, Bremen, dem wunderschönen Offenbach am Main (bei Frankfurt) und Berlin. Zu sehen gibt's natürlich FireMonkey und Delphi XE2 auf Windows und Mac. In dieser sehr erfolgreichen Veranstaltungsreihe mit mehr als 1000 Teilnehmern in den letzten Monaten besuchen wir dieses mal auch entlegenere Orte, die wir eher selten (oder bis heute noch gar n...