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May 2013
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Developer Direct Episode 5, tomorrow, May 17 - From Data to Business Information
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– Developer Direct Episode 5, "Multi-Device Developent: From Data to Business Information", takes place tomorrow across the planet. Registration information for the Europe and US/Canada episodes are listed below. Join the team of Embarcadero development and industry experts for more technical, ...
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iOS app dev with Delphi XE4 and FireMonkey 3 is a quantum leap beyond XE2…
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– During my recent product launch travels and during several of the Friday Developer Direct sessions, developers have asked me several interesting questions: 1) Is FireMonkey for iOS in XE4 the same as the FireMonkey iOS that was part of XE2, 2) Do we cross compile Delphi code to Objective-C code and ...
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C++Builder XE4 use case: (I need to) Build a Multi-Device, Multi-Tier Master/Detail database application
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– We need to move our C++ based customers and orders client/server application to a multi-tier architecture to separate the database from the business logic and then build several C++ applications that can run on Windows 32, Windows 64 and Mac OSX. The back end SQL database may be Oracle, MySQL, ...
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Going Mobile (for online shopping) is the Way Ahead
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– Last Friday morning, at my London Heathrow Airport hotel, The Times newspaper was placed at my door. I kept a two page spread article from inside the newspaper that was titled "Going Mobile Is The Way Ahead". I don’t think anyone would disagree about the impact that mobile devices and app ...
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C++Builder XE4 use case: (I need to) Build a Multi-Device C++ app
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– For ISVs and Enterprises the #1 application development challenge today is supporting the growing heterogeneous mix of client devices, UI approaches, OS versions, and emerging form factors. With traditional development approaches, for every new platform supported, a whole new team is required to ...
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The end of a great week in Europe with Delphi for iOS
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– I am sitting at London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 at the end of a great week in Denmark and England using RAD Studio XE4 and Delphi XE4. Many thanks go out to the 42 enthusiastic developers who spent two days with me in Nyborg Denmark at the Dapug Delphi XE4 workshop. We spent the two days ...
April 2013
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C++Builder XE4: multi-device, true native, on-device rapid prototyping
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– C++ developers are deep into the mad, mad, mad, mad world of multiple devices. Users inside and outside of enterprises are using desktops, notebooks, netbooks, ultrabooks, smartphones, tablets, servers and clouds as their main and secondary computing devices. Being able to build native apps for ...
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You (the Developer) exist to build great apps….
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– You will see new developer focused product pages and banners for RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder and InterBase today. Also new in RAD Studio XE4 is IBLite, the embeddable SQL database for iOS. Also included in RAD Studio XE4 is HTML5 Builder. We are celebrating the developer in an even bigger way ...
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Delphi for iOS: multi-device app development, true native code, on-device rapid prototyping
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– Some recent articles include interesting information about app store downloads and sales along with the revenues that developers are realizing. As our product road map outlines, we are continuing our development of compilers, FireMonkey and runtime libraries that will support multi-device ...
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Developer Direct Friday conversations comes to the US and Canada starting April 19
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– Join the team of Embarcadero development and industry experts for more technical, relaxed and fun demo and discussion sessions. Raise your questions and interact live with both presenters and attendees as each week a new theme gives focus and direction to solve the every day challenges that ...
March 2013
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C++ in the Multi-Device Enterprise
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– In every conversation, social network post and industry article, you hear about the need for multi-device support inside an Enterprise. Terms like BYOD appear in most articles and Enterprise strategies. Computing in a modern Enterprise is not only a Microsoft Windows world. Enterprise organizations ...
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Webinar: March 26 - C++ in the Multi-Device Enterprise
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– Join me, David I, on March 26, 2013 for my webinars (3 times during the day) showcasing how C++ can be used in the multi-device enterprise. In every conversation, social network post and industry article, you hear about the need for multi-device support inside an Enterprise. Terms like BYOD appear ...
February 2013
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Multi-Device C++ is used everywhere on planet Earth and beyond!
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– In my conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup during the CodeRage 7 C++ Conference (replays of the sessions are available to watch and download) last December, Bjarne talked about how pervasive C++ is in enterprises, infrastructures, major application software and operating platforms. C++ is used to ...
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FireMonkey XE3 DrawArc and FillArc on the form and a TImage Bitmap
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– I received an email from Marian Ionescu this morning asking me how to draw an Arc on a FireMonkey Timage Bitmap. In FireMonkey XE2 there was a method, BitmapChanged, for a TBitmap that was refactored out in FireMonkey XE3. To take a look, I build Delphi and C++Builder FireMonkey XE3 HD ...
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Feb 14, 2013 - Delphi’s 18th birthday celebration - ongoing innovations and new multi-device support
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– Back on February 14, 1995 we launched the first version of Delphi at the Software Development Conference West in San Francisco California. Building way beyond the previous 12 years of Turbo Pascal innovations, Delphi arrived on the scene combining a 16-bit Windows native code compiler, visual ...
