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May 2013
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Using Open SLL in Delphi iOS
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– Delphi uses OpenSSL for Indy's HTTP support, but also for Amazon and Azure cloud services. it is also used for DataSnap clients when encryption filters are enabled. Here are some tips on how to get this library up and running. To enable Indy's OpenSSL support in your Delphi code, all you need to ...
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Keynote at DDD Frankfurt and Amsterdam
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– Over the next two weeks I'll visit and given a keynote at the two European stops of the Delphi Developer Days tour, with Cary Jensen and Bob Swart. As you might remember, I used to co-organize and speak at these events with Cary, but given my new job at Embarcadero I couldn't do that any more. ...
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Of Strings, Immutability, COW, and AnsiStrings
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– Not unexpectedly, there is debate in the Delphi community around strings in the NextGen compiler, touching on string immutability, copy-on-write, the loss of the AnsiString type in Delphi's new iOS compiler, and the like. Some sources are: delphitools.info/2013/05/13/immutable- ...
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Italian Delphi Day 2013
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– On June 6th there will be the 12th edition of the Italian Delphi Day, featuring local and international speakers, including myself as Delphi PM and Bruno Fierens of TMS. Beside conference style presentations, the day will see roundtable discussions, showcases, and lots of Q&A; sessions, covering all ...
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XE4 Articles, Comments, Intelli-J, and More
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– I saw a very interesting article on ZDNet about a real case of an Australian company in the medical field. You can read the article, with extensive #34es from Malcolm Groves, at www.zdnet.com/pascal-still-an-advantage-for-some-ios-android-developers-7000014743/. I also witnessed a ...
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Delphi XE4 IDE videos by José León
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– José León has been posting some in depth videos about the changes in the Delphi IDE to support iOS development (and not only that) in XE4. The complete series is on his blog at joseleon.es. Specifically the first three videos were published in April, while there have been 6 more already in May. ...
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IBLite, Free InterBase for iOS
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– Embarcadero has formally announced IBLite, the free version of IB ToGo for iOS, already shipping in RAD Studio XE4. You can read the announcement at edn.embarcadero.com/article/43128. As you might know, IBToGo is a DLL-based or in-process version of InterBase, requiring no deployment and giving ...
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XE4 DataBase Components Updates and the Reviewers Guide
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– There are two hot fixes available for the database side of XE4: IBX (Interbase Express) is now available for registered users at cc.embarcadero.com/item/29408 The FireDAC Enterprise download for XE4 (if you are entitled to it) is at cc.embarcadero.com/item/29368. It has been ...
April 2013
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Assorted Delphi XE4 Links
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– I've been busy with launch webinar and other activities, but I've also spent some time online. Here is a collection of links related with Delphi XE4: JT on True Native at blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2013/04/18/true-native/ Long long post with many technical details by ...
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My Delphi Podcast Interview
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– I was interviewed by Jim McKeeth for a new episode of the Delphi Podcast. The first good news here is that the podcast is coming back after quite some time, kudos to Jim for that. The second news is I was interviewed for it, and spent quite some time chatting about Delphi in general, Delphi for iOS ...
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Delphi Language for Mobile Development Paper
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– I wrote a 40 pages technical white paper covering all of the language changes in XE4 for mobile development (tied to the new ARM LLVM-based Delphi compiler). The document covers the reasons for the changes (technical and not), covers these language changes in detail, and offers best practices for ...
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Delphi XE4 Is Available
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– As of today (a couple of hours ago) Delphi XE4 is available. This is a very significant new version of Delphi, since it adds to Windows and Mac development the announced iOS ARM compiler and the complete support for the iOS platform (RTL, FireMonkey, Indy, Database access, DataSnap, full development ...
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Automatic Reference Counting for Delphi
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– The coming Delphi for iOS compiler will have a brand new memory management model for Delphi, ARC. This was mentioned in my previous blog post (has been 2 hectic weeks, sorry for not blogging for so long), and by Olaf Monien in some blog posts (including http://www.monien.net/delphi-xe-4-is-arc-for- ...
March 2013
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Class Operators in Delphi
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– Delphi coming ARM compiler (for iOS) will add a nice feature to the language. Operators overloading for classes, a feature that is currently only for records. This means you can write a class like this: type TNumber = class private FValue: Integer; procedure SetValue(const Value: ...
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VCL or FireMonkey: Short Take
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– A couple of days ago in the non-tech forum I posted a very short description of the key differences between the VCL and the FireMonkey libraries you can use in Delphi to build a Windows application (Of course, FireMonkey is the only choice for Mac development, and will be the only choice for iOS and ...
