Posted by Jim McKeeth on 3-Aug-2010
The call for papers for the 5th CodeRage virtual conference is out. Deadline for papers is August 17th, and the conference is scheduled for October 4th – 8th. It isn’t a hard and fast rule, but generally speaking CodeRage is pretty close to the release of the new version of Delphi, not that anyone will [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 18-Jun-2010
Delphi Live! debuted in 2009, and it was a hit. So much so they are doing it again. Great line up of speakers. I have 3 sessions planned for this year: Silverlight in Delphi Prism – Both a half day workshop and a regular session Delphi Bots Live! - Using Delphi Prism and Unreal Tournament [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 24-May-2010
I planned to have David I’s interview posted over the weekend, but it might not be available until tomorrow. However I wanted to get a post in to let you know that tomorrow is the start of DataRage 2. If you are working with Databases then check it out. I am not presenting this year, [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 18-May-2010
Primoz is a long time Delphi developer as well as writer for The Delphi Magazine, Monitor and Blaise Pascal magazines. You may know him from his blog TheDelphiGeek.com or his OmniThreadLibrary for threading in Delphi. You can also find his articles at 17th Elephant and he is on Stack Overflow. We discuss Delphi Mac support [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 5-May-2010
I need your questions for an upcoming interview with Nick Hodges, the Delphi & RAD Studio R&D Manager with Embarcadero Technologies. Leave them as a comment to this message and then listen to his answers in our next episode. Comments closed in preparation for interview. Thanks to all who commented!
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 10-Apr-2010
There has been a lot of fuss lately about the lack of openness on apple’s platform. There is still time for things to change, and hopefully this ends as a win for developers and consumers, but unless Apple changes their tune there will be no winners, only losers. The general consensus among the developers falls [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 8-Apr-2010
Apple announced their new iPhone SDK and license agreement today. Part of the change in the license agreement to use the SDK and publish apps to the app store includes Changing Section 3.3.1 from: 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 25-Mar-2010
I was reading Mason’s post about Stack Overflow closing the Delphi documentation gap where he advocated Embarcadero setting up a new feature of the Delphi Doc Wiki so people could submit questions and someone else provide an answer there. The problem with that is Stack Overflow is the ideal place to ask Delphi questions and [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 10-Mar-2010
Kind of expected this to happen due to all the conflicts, but I just received an update for the Delphi Live! 2010 dates. Due to the rather short notice of the date, which gave some other potential speakers a bit of a hard time and because we have received quite a few emails from the [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 2-Mar-2010
I didn’t get the episode with Marco and Cary edited and posted yet (came close – might still get it posted tonight when I get home). In that episode Marco mentioned his free REST webinar which occurs at three different times tomorrow (March 3rd). So sign-up to attend one of those sessions and download the [...]