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April 2013
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…then i might as well learn Java?
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– One of the most frequent comments i hear when people dismiss or decide against considering Oxygene as their development tool of choice goes along the lines of the title of this blog post: “With Oxygene i need to learn all the new platform APIs. If that’s the case, i might as well ...
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Prism XE4, Where Art Thou?
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– Ok, so the cat is out of the bag, if a few days ahead of schedule: starting with the upcoming release of XE4, Embarcadero Prism will no longer be part of the RAD Studio SKU, and there will be no “XE4″ branded edition of Prism. But worry not. As you all know, Prism has been nothing more ...
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Letting Oxygene and RemObjects SDK wake you up in time for WWDC
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– On Monday, it being a holiday and all, i found myself with a free half hour before dinner and so i decided i’d write a small little application with Oxygene that can both serve as an example for some cool technology interaction, and also does something useful for me: a Client/Server app that ...
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Cocoa/CoreFoundation Bridging Explained
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– “Bridging” is a new language feature introduced to Objective-C alongside ARC, that i believe is not very widely understood, at least not fully. Cocoa always had the ability to “toll-free bridge” between Cocoa objects, such as NSString and their underlying non-object-oriented ...
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Data Abstract for Java Samples on Google Play
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– I’m happy to announce the availability of the DA SQL Sample – our first, but definitely not last, sample application that is available on Google Play. It is written in Java and powered by our Data Abstract for Java framework. Now it is even easier for you to give the possibilities of Data Abstract ...
March 2013
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“The Truth is in the Cloud” — Why iCloud Data is Failing You, and How Data Abstract can Help.
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– The past few weeks, everybody has been complaining about iCloud. Or more precisely, they have been complaining about a small subfeature that is crucial to app developers: Core Data syncing via iCloud. Developers are concerned that data syncing via iCloud is difficult and unreliable, and that when ...
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Storyboards with Oxygene “Nougat”
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– A brief introduction to building Oxygene “Nougat” applications for iOS using Storyboards and Interface Builder. Storyboards provide a better approach for interface design and controlling the user experience. Oxygene “Nougat” provides full support and integration for ...
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Top 10 Reasons to use Platform Native APIs
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– What are native platform APIs? They are the APIs provided by the platform vendor that define the platform. On Android this is the Android SDK. On iOS it is the Cocoa Touch Frameworks. On Windows and Windows Phone it is WinRT and the .NET Framework. There are undocumented APIs, and even calls that ...
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Creating a Turn-Based Game for iOS: Nougat Tic-Tac-Toe
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– Over the past couple of weeks, i have been working on a new sample project for Oxygene “Nougat” on the side. After having gotten Browse500 into the App Store in January and showing how to reimplement a simple native UIKit control from Objective-C in Nougat last month, i wanted to create ...
February 2013
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Where Does Business Logic Belong?
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– The question of where business logic belongs is as old as database application development. Early on, with primitive client server development, the business logic existed in the client and the database existed only to persist the data. The advantage is this makes the client responsive for input ...
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Custom iOS Controls in Oxygene “Nougat”
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– A week or so back, Yari D’areglia had an excellent tutorial on his blog on How to build a custom control in iOS that gave a nice rundown of some of the tasks involved, including handling touches, drawing some non-trivial custom UI, and returning events to the application via the target/action ...
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Oxygene “Nougat” Overview
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– Discussing with marc hoffman, Carlo Kok, Mike Orris & Brian Lindahl the newest flavor of Oxygene “Nougat”, bringing the Oxygene programming language to the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks for Mac and iOS development. See also the [Introducing Nougat] and [Oxygene Overview] videos.
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Working with Briefcases
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– One very useful feature of Data Abstract is Briefcase support. The Data Abstract briefcase provides local persistent storage. Simply store the data in a local briefcase file on the client file system, and the data can be reloaded without needing to request it again from the server. Some common use ...
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“Nougat”, Beta 3
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– On Friday, we shipped BETA 3 of Oxygene “Nougat”, a major milestone in our progress to bring the Oxygene language you know and love to the “Cocoa” platform for truly native Mac and iOS development. The big benefit of Oxygene “Nougat” over other non-Apple tool ...
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Introducing “Nougat” – Oxygene for Cocoa
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– Introducing RemObjects “Nougat” – Oxygene for Cocoa. Bringing the Oxygene programming language to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch for Mac OS X and iOS development. Demonstration includes CrossBox, Interface Builder and Instruments integration.
