What a week it was! Travelling and showing Delphi for iOS to developers in different countries. Very rewarding experience. This product and technology are going to rock when they are released. Delphi (and C++Builder) developers are so super happy to see the technology that supports what is hot on the market (iOS!) without loosing its advantage to alternative developer tools (Rapid Application Development!). Warsaw, Poland, March 14th, 2013 - 90 attendees at the event Brno, Czech Re...

Одна из наиважнейших новых возможностей в ER/Studio XE3 - "Universal Mappings", что в русском языке лучше всего передается как "Универсальные отображения". Рассказу о применении универсальных отображений был посвящен вебинар "Universal mapping для сквозной трассировки и соответствия данных в ERStudio XE3", который я проводил 20 февраля 2013 года. Универсальные отображения были реализованы для поддержки моделирования на общекорпоративном уровне в больших организациях с множеством систем и ч...

Мои коллеги и хорошие друзья все время жалуются на своего сисадмина, который заблокировал доступ с работы ко всем вебинарам, причем не только нашей компании, но и других "крупняков" типа Oracle. Несмотря на то, что мы используем платформу проведения вебинаров, которая позволяет участие в них не только с ПК, но и с мобильных устройств, я знаю достоверно, что упомянутая проблема есть не только у моих друзей, но и многих других заинтересованных разработчиков и администраторов БД. Участие в onlin...

One of small but rather useful new features of FireMonkey introduced in XE3 version is the FMX.Types.ITextSettings interface. Often we need to change some parameters of an output text for a component, which class is not known a priori. For example, a component can be of the TText or TTextControl classes. These classes have Color or FontColor properties respectively. In general case, to set color to one of these properties, one need first check the type of an object instance and then cast the typ...

"Developer Direct" webinars are back in town! Season 3 starts in a week from now on Friday, February 1st! Don't miss the opportunity to have some fun and join me, Stephen, Jason and Jon for two hours of interactive online sessions every Friday at 11am Amsterdam time (10am UK, 1pm Moscow, 2:30pm Mumbai/Bangalore). The conversation is relaxed and there is always lots of laughing and fun! The registration form is live and make sure to register for these free online events here: http://emb...

It seems that it is my very first post in the New Year 2013, so I wish You all the best and great time writing all kinds of programs. I'm sure it is going to be a great year for Delphi and Marco is predicting it as well, especially that next month Delphi is going to become adult! Two years ago I have put together a serie of Delphi DataSnap tutorials called "Delphi Labs" and many people found it useful, so I thought that it is a high time to at least update code samples for every tutorial so t...

It seems that it is my very first post in the New Year 2013, so I wish You all the best and great time writing all kinds of programs. I'm sure it is going to be a great year for Delphi and Marco is predicting it as well, especially that next month Delphi is going to become adult! Two years ago I have put together a serie of Delphi DataSnap tutorials called "Delphi Labs" and many people found it useful, so I thought that it is a high time to at least update code samples for every tutorial so t...

Blog is very much like a "log". Place to make a note of something that heppened. I like to document here different events that I'm presenting on or at least participating in. Programming events I mean... The more events there is and the more frequent they get, it is more and more difficult to do it in a timely fashion. Today we have done with Stephen and Jon the last Developer Direct live webinar and I have realised that I have not been documenting my live events in the last month or so! The...

Blog is very much like a "log". Place to make a note of something that heppened. I like to document here different events that I'm presenting on or at least participating in. Programming events I mean... The more events there is and the more frequent they get, it is more and more difficult to do it in a timely fashion. Today we have done with Stephen and Jon the last Developer Direct live webinar and I have realised that I have not been documenting my live events in the last month or so! The...

My second C++ CodeRage7 session today is happening right now! This time I'm demonstrating basics of using C++Builder XE3 for building interactive, cross-platform Embarcadero CodeCentral slides and source code of demos presented during the session. There are four demo projects there. The first one is a C++Builder version of HTML5 Builder "planets" JavaScript planets demo. The beauty of FireMonkey 3D programming is that you do not need to write any code to get a very nice visualisation of Earth...