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Meet the Tokyo Engineers & MVP

I got to sit down with some of the engineers in Tokyo to talk about C++Builder, RAD Studio and Delphi. C++Builder is big in Japan. Maybe even bigger than Delphi (which is saying a lot.) It was great to put faces with the names of these great guys who I’ve only corresponded with over email or social media before.

Aiso-san, Mohri-san & Inoue-san are all software consultant engineers. Aiso-san and Inoue-san where part of the presentation #0315inTokyo with Fujii-san and I. The 4th engineer in the back of the photo below is Kenji Umeda, a support engineer that isn’t on Twitter for me to link to.

Kazutaka Aiso Haruyuki Mohri Kazuhiro INOUE
Kazutaka Aiso Haruyuki Mohri Kazuhiro Inoue
Tokyo Engineers

And here is a picture of Fujii-san and myself . . . . in the back you can see HOSOKAWA Jun, our MVP in Japan.

Fujii-san

Here is a couple better pictures . . .

HOSOKAWA Jun and Me

Including one from when we went to dinner . . . with Fujii-san and Aiso-san.

HOSOKAWA Jun

Here are a few more pictures of our fantastic dinner too, if you are into that sort of thing . . .

Dinner in Tokyo Dinner in Tokyo  Dinner in Tokyo
Dinner in Tokyo Dinner in Tokyo

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Making the Huge World of Delphi Small Again

The world of Delphi is HUGE. It love seeing all the different types of apps being built and seeing users all over the world. This week I was in Tokyo for their #0315inTokyo event announcing 10.2 Tokyo coming soon. In a surprising turn of events Eric Bonilha of Digifort from Brazil was in Tokyo on vacation too.

He stopped by the Tokyo office of Embarcadero for a quick visit. He showed off the latest version of his Digifort Mobile client and the engineers here showed him some of the things they are working on with BeaconFence for a local museum. A lot of fun.

Eric and I in Tokyo

We are all excited for the upcoming 10.2 Tokyo release adding support for Linux!

It is happenstance meetings like this that show how global Delphi and Embarcadero really are.

Go Delphi!

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Nick Hodges New Book: Dependency Injection In Delphi

If you’ve been following along, this is Nick’s 3rd book in recent years, following on the heals of Coding in Delphi and More Coding in Delphi. This time around he has teamed up with Embarcadero MVP Stefan Glienke to cover the topic of Dependency Injection in depth and complete detail.

This book covers Dependency Injection from A to Z. In it you’ll learn about Constructor Injection, Property Injection, and Method Injection. You’ll learn about the right and wrong way to use the Dependency Injection Container.

Nick Hodges Dependency Injection In DelphiHere is the Chapter List:

  • What is Dependency Injection
  • Benefits of Dependency Injection
  • Constructor Injection
  • Property Injection
  • Method Injection
  • Using the Container
  • A Simple Migration Example
  • Advanced Uses of the Container
  • Dependency Injection Anti-patterns
  • A Full, Useful Example
  • Final Thoughts

Run out and buy your copy now!

Nick Hodges Stefan Glienke Coding In Delphi More Coding In Delphi

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Yes, Starter Editions is Free

I still get people asking about Embarcadero offering a free or community version or Delphi or C++Builder. That is one of the big strategies of IDERA – offering good free tools. So when we joined IDERA it didn’t take long before we started offering Delphi and C++Builder Starter edition for free (or a 100% discount, depending on who you ask).

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The Malcolm Groves Rubbish Bin Connection Episode

Talking with Malcolm Groves of Code Partners in Sydney, Australia about his smart, connected rubbish bins.

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Delphi’s DNA Infographic

Remember my blog post about Delphi’s DNA? We’ve been working on making it into an Infographic, and now people are asking about creating a poster of it too! What do you think? Do you want a DNA poster for your wall? What suggestions or changeDelphi's highly evolved DNA makes it the best development tool for any platform and any project.s would you make?

 

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The Stephen Ball Smart Grid Episode

Today we talk with Stephen Ball about his work at Embarcadero, and Smart Grids!

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The New Embarcadero MVP Feed

Delphi Social MediaWe just launched a MVP Blog Feed on the Community page. You can get to it at embt.co/mvp-feed. Eventually we will expand it to contain all the MVPs, Tech Partners and other Embarcadero Partners that may be of interest to the general public.

We are just getting warmed up!

So go bookmark it today and check back next week for more fun and excitement.

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#ILoveDelphi How About You?

#ILoveDelphiFebruary 14th is Delphi’s birthday (and some other holiday). What a great time to talk about how much we love Delphi.

I moved from Basic to Turbo Pascal back in the DOS days, and then started using Delphi with version 2. Since then I’ve used a number of other development tools, including Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, C# and others. Delphi has always been my favorite. It is the tool I turn to when I need to get something done quickly, and it is the bar which I use to measure every other development tool (and none of them measure up).

My son took a class in JavaScript through school. He was really frustrated with it, and wanted to give up programming. I told him I’d be happy to sit down with him again and teach him Delphi (I’d done it a few times in the past, but he lost interest). He reluctantly agreed. After a few minutes he was blown away. All the major frustrations he had from JavaScript was alleviated right away. Soon he created a mobile app that was useful and solved a problem for him in one of his games. He was telling his mom about how much better Delphi is than JavaScript when he said “No wonder everyone loves Delphi, it is the best!”

What about you, why do you love Delphi? Create a video, a blog post or whatever works for you, and share it with the hash tag #ILoveDelphi.

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Checkout the Embarcadero Competitions!

We’ve launched a new competitions section on the Embarcadero Community. This  will host competitions for you to show off your creativity and technical skills. It is kicking off with two competitions, the Delphi 10.2 T-Shirt Graphic Contest and the #FunWithDelphi: NASA API Mashup.

#FunWithDelphi: NASA API Mashup

#FunWithDelphi: NASA API MashupYou can have a little fun with Delphi in the new year by entering into our Fun With Delphi contest! Delphi makes it fast and easy to build REST clients using powerful built in components like TRESTClient and TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter. You can easily load up the JSON data retrieved from a REST API into in-memory components like TFDMemTable. Finally, you can use LiveBindings to visually display the data in your apps with very little code required.

We are excited to see what creative ways the Delphi community can come up with to utilize the REST libraries so we are announcing a contest where you can showcase your best REST client mashup using the NASA API.

Disclaimer: This contest is not sponsored or approved by NASA.

Delphi 10.2 T-Shirt Graphic Contest

Delphi 10.2 T-Shirt Graphic ContestThe next release of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio is 10.2 Tokyo. While the release is still some time away, we can start having fun now. If you want to play with the technical bits, make sure you are on Update Subscription and join the beta. For a little fun we have a contest to create T-shirt designs. Break out your creativity and artistic skills.