Another screen cast for Delphi Prism, this one is a WPF for Hello World. Same as the WinForms, but WPF. No naration this time. 2 minutes and 11 seconds.
Didn’t think I would get any more done at PDC, but I found some time . . . .
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I recorded a quick first look at Delphi Prism in Visual Studio 2008. Just a short overview of only 3:24 seconds to create a Hello World video. This was recorded live while sitting in the hall at PDC2008.
More to come! Let me know what you think and what you would like to see.
Sitting down with Nick Hodges, marc hoffman and Allen Bauer at Microsoft’s PDC2008 to discuss Delphi Prism. Get answers to all your questions about what Delphi Prism is, and the future of Delphi. Leave any questions you have on Delphi Prism here, and I’ll get the answers for you.
A little late to on this podcast, but it is some good information. The audio quality is not as good as I would like, but you can certainly hear what is going on.
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No Podcast Today
I had wanted to do something cool from PDC2008 for the podcast this week, but due to a series of events it just didn’t happen. Hopefully I can get something put together for tomorrow.
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11 – More Roundtable
Another round table discussion about latest news and developments.
- How the community can promote Delphi programming
- TPCI?
- Delphi Flash mob (details coming soon)
- PDC – Windows 7, Silverlight 2
- Anonymous Methods
- Speed of TStringBuilder
- Garbage Collection and IDisposable / Dispose() in.Net
Our guests today:
Spirit of Delphi Award Winner and definitive Delphi author Marco Cantu. Marco has written close to 15 books on developing with Delphi. From his office in Italy, Marco is also an in demand trainer and consultant. You can follow Marco on his web site and his blog. He’ll be on twitter soon. It is only a matter of time. . . .
Roland Beenhakker is a long time Delphi user since version 1. He started his own company Beensoft Software Engineering. In this company a small team of professionals build software and webapplications to customer’s specifications, using Delphi and other tools. He is located in Heiloo, Netherlands, which is about 40 kilometers north of Amsterdam. His blog is Delphi Power Unleashed you can also follow him on Twitter.
marc hoffman is the Chief Software Architect for RemObjects and a Spare-time Photographer. When he is not guest appearing on this podcast he runs a blog at RemObjects.com where he talks about Oxygene and shares some of his photographs. marc lives in Berlin Germany, and prefers his name all lowercase. Follow him on Twitter.
Time is running out for the RemObjects and BeyondCompare discount codes. I look forward to seeing everyone at PDC next week!
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10 – Marco Cantù
Episode 10 is an interview with Spirit of Delphi Award Winner and definitive Delphi author Marco Cantu. This interview was recorded October 10th with Marco at his office in Italy. We talk about Marco’s new book, Delphi 2009 Features, REST application development, Domain Specific Languages, Generics, Anonymous Methods, Delphi Prism, Native Win32 vs. .NET Development and much more.
- Marco’s web site
- Marco’s blog
- Marco’s books on Lulu – Marco’s new book on Delphi 2009 is planned to be out this month!
- Microsoft’s Visual Studio Shell Based Applications page
- EKON 12
- CodeRage 3 – December 1-5, 2008
Marco will be presenting at both the upcoming Ekon 12 conference in Germany, and CodeRage 3 virtual conference.
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9 – CodeRage 3 and Delphi Prism
The reason for this special edition is there has been some big news lately and I wanted to go straight to the source to get you the facts on what is going on as soon as possible.
I tracked down Anders Ohlsson and Christine Ellis of Developer Relations at Embarcadero CodeGear to get the facts on CodeRage 3, an upcoming physical conference and the elusive Delphi Prism. We also discuss plans for a Delphi flash mob at the PDC Open Spaces.
- Anders’ blog
- TheCodeRage.com – CodeRage 3 / 2008
- Microsoft PDC 2008 – Open Spaces
- EKON 12 / EuroDevCon08 (German)
- CodeWay (French)
Delphi Twitters at PDC
- Jim McKeeth
- Allen Bauer
- Nick Hodges
- marc hoffman (RemObjects)
- Anders Ohlsson (Coming soon?)
Post a comment if you will be at PDC and include your Twitter page if you have one.
I will be at CodeRage and PDC. See you there!
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8 – Round Table on Best Practices
This is another one of our exciting round table discussions. This time around we discuss Conferences – Including up coming CodeGear conferences, Best Practices, Newsgroups and Forums, Generics, Exception handling, Source Control, the MVC Pattern as it relates to Delphi and great Delphi extensions.
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Anders Ohlsson with Developer Relations at Embarcadero Technologies. Anders is involved in the CodeGear conferences including CodeRage and the previous DevCons. Additionally he travels the world meeting with Delphi developer groups showing off the latest features of Delphi. His blog is the Hacker’s Corner.
Roland Beenhakker is a long time Delphi user since version 1. He started his own company Beensoft Software Engineering. In this company a small team of professionals build software and webapplications to customer’s specifications, using Delphi and other tools. He is located in Heiloo, Netherlands, which is about 40 kilometers north of Amsterdam. His blog is Delphi Power Unleashed.
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Jolyon Smith has been using Delphi since literally before it was released, as he has access to the Borland Early Experience Program through his employer at the time. Before that he was developing client/server Windows applications before it became fashionable, primarily using Gupta SQLWindows and SQLBase. Apart from software development, he is a rabid movie geek, a devoted family man, a voracious reader and an enthusiastic singer. He lives in Aukland, New Zealand and his blog is Te Waka o Delphi.
marc hoffman is the Chief Software Architect for RemObjects and a Spare-time Photographer. When he is not guest appearing on this podcast he runs a blog at RemObjects.com where he talks about Oxygene and shares some of his photographs. marc lives in Berlin Germany, and prefers his name all lowercase.
Be sure to take advantage of the 20% off of anything and everything RemObject sells with the discount code in the podcast. Also get 25% off BeyondCompare 3 from Scooter Software. The discount codes are in the podcast and good through the end of October.
Some episode links and notes. Add more in the comments!
- Source Control
- Team Coherence (Written in Delphi)
- SubVersion (Open source)
- Team Coherence (Written in Delphi)
- The new CodeGear Newsgroups and Forums
- Generics
- Best practices and patterns
- Exception handling
- Jolyon’s Proposal for Automated Variables <– Be sure to vote!
- The MVC Pattern with Delphi
- Ray‘s retired Data-Aware Business Components (Internet Archive link)
- GExperts beta for Delphi 2009
- Andreas Hausladen DDevExtensions version 1.91 for Delphi 2009 only
- Unit Expert for Delphi by Epocolipse (only through Delphi 2007 currently)
- On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders by Michael A. Banks
- Web Browser User Agent String History
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7 – Beyond Compare
This week is an interview with Craig Peterson, the Lead Developer on Scooter Software’s Beyond Compare, one of my favorite utilities. We discuss deveoping on the Linux platform with Kylix, adding Unicode Support pre-Delphi 2009, the new version of Beyond Compare and some tips for using it, plus a whole lot more.
Be sure to listen to the podcast to get your 25% discount code on Beyond compare version 3. Also still good is the RemObjects 20% discount code. Both are valid through the end of October!
A very short introduction to Generic Collections in Delphi 2009. Create a TList of Integers and show adding and removing items from it. Showing some of the differences in types, gotchas and errors you might get.
Generics, or parametrized types, are a type that works with another type that is defined later. Collections are a great example of using them. You create a generic TList, and then when you use it you declare what type it will contain. Then it will be strongly typed to that specific type, both in adding items and removing them.
Delphi Generics work with all types in Delphi: native types (Integer, string, etc.), Records, Objects and Interfaces.
- Episode 2 – Intro to Generic Collections with Delphi 2009
- [NOTE: Run full screen, in HD with Scaling off. It should display at 1280×720.]
This is screen cast episode 2, shot with Camtasia and hosted on Vimeo. I had to shoot it at 1280×720 so they will offer it in HD and not downscale it. Let me know how it works for everyone.
As was pointed out in the comments, the download link only works after you sign into Vimeo. If that doesn’t work for people let me know and I will come up with a different solution.