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Manca solo una settima all’inizio di ITDevCon2011. Per permettere a tutti gli iscritti (e far decidere chi è ancora indeciso) di sfruttare al meglio i due giorni di intensa formazione, abbiamo appena pubblicato l’applicazione ITDevCON2011 sul’Android Market.
Trevete il programma completo della conferenza, i profili degli speaker e informazioni sugli sponsor.
Inoltre, potrete definire i vostri speech preferiti in modo da essere avvisati subito prima dell’inizio dello speech.
Potrete votare e commentare ogni speech. Potete commentare da subito inserendo le vostre aspettative per lo speech o alcune delucidazioni sul contenuto. Il voto invece sarà possibile solo a speech avvenuto.

Dal punto di vista tecnico, questa applicazione Android utilizza un servizio REST scritto con Delphi utilizzando DataSnap e i Mobile DataSnap connectors per Android.
Per chi fosse interessato al “Making”, durante la conferenza potrà assistere allo speech di Salvatore Sparacino che illustrerà i vari step dello sviluppo e le soluzioni tecnologiche adottate.
Per definire il vostro profilo, votare e commentare, dovrete utilizzare il codice fornito al momento dell’iscrizione. Se non siete partecipanti, o ancora non vi è arrivato il codice di accesso, potete utilizzare l’applicazione come “anomymous”. In questo caso non potrete salvare i vostri speech preferiti Né votare o commentare.

Dashboard

La time table

Dettagli dello speaker (in questo screenshot, DavidI)

Il link da dove installare l’applicazione è il seguente:
https://market.android.com/details?id=it.bittime.itdevcon2011

Happy ITDevCon2011

My new white paper about “Developing Application Services with PHP Servers and Android Phone Clients” is on line under the Embarcadero RAD-in-Action initiative.

Developing Application Services with PHP Servers and Android Phone Clients

Are (or will be) available:

• The White Paper
• The complete source code from the white paper
• 2 videos showing a complete (obviously very simple) Android application interfacing with a PHP REST web service (developer with RAD PHP XE).
• A webinar (9th february)

In bit time we are heavily working with the Android operating system used in conjunction with DataSnap or PHP services.

This RAD-in-Action initiative (sponsored by Embarcadero) should be useful for all who want to start to work with Android and REST web services developerd with (RAD)PHP or Delphi Datasnap.

Last Friday ended the second edition of ITDevCon, the European Conference on Delphi and its related technologies.
ITDevCon This year was even bigger.
There have been more present, more sponsors, more speakers, more topics and a lot of people with the desire to learn new things and improve their every day work.
In addition to a large group of Italian and European speakers, we had speakers from all over the world. From the coast of the U.S. Ovest to Russia. The participants who came from all over Europe. The most intrepid of them even came from Australia to follow the Mobile Boost on Android and the 2-day conference. Congratulations!
A special thanks goes to all the speakers who participated and the sponsors who have contributed their support to make this conference a major event for the European community Delphi.
I hope that the content and the organization is liked to you at least half of how much it is liked to me.
We are organizing slides, videos and examples for each speech to put it all on-line available to participants at the conference as soon as possible. You will receive an email informing you of how to download all the material available.
In the coming days, on the conference website (www.itdevcon.it) we will post all the pictures we have done in these three days. If you have any photos that you want to see published, send them to me, we’ll publish it on the official website.

Many speakers already blogged about the conference:

Paweł Głowacki
http://blogs.embarcadero.com/pawelglowacki/2010/11/22/39140

Marco Cantù
http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/itdevcon2010_report.html

José León Serna
http://www.joseleon.es/2010/11/22/itdevcon-2010-conclusions/

Bruno Fierens
http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=185

Primoz Gabrijelcic
http://www.thedelphigeek.com/2010/11/itdevcon-2010.html

And now, Daniele Teti

If you want to see the tweet about the conference, you can go here.

I thank again all those who have spoken and all those who have attended to ITDevCon.
See you next year.

– Daniele

Last week I returned from Brazil where I had been to speak to the Delphi Conference.
The conference was held in St. Paul who, like many Brazilians will be able to confirm, is not a typical Brazilian city.

The warmth of local people has been exemplary. Andreano Lanusse has organized all in a really valuable way.

Besides the excellent food, I was surprised by the number of Delphi developers found: 550! In addition, over 150 people
have not had time to register and were placed on a waiting list. Fantastic.

After the inevitable David and his keynote, there were four simultaneous tracks during the day.

My talk was translated from English to Portuguese.

As imagined, the argument Android and seem to raise much interest in the Delphi community.

It was very nice to have confirmation in the first person to what is present and the large Brazilian community Delphi.

Here you can find all the slides and in my GoogleCode svn repository you can find all the DEMO code.

If you live in italy or can speak in italian language, you might be interested in the “ITDEVCON MOBILE BOOST” (http://www.itdevcon.it/).

Stay tuned.

This year, the launch of the new RADSTUDIO XE has been really nice. We have met some friends and customers exciting to see the new Delphi features and capabilities.
In the event of Rome there was DavidI too.

The agenda has been the following:

Embarcadero Update + XE and All-Access (DavidI)
+ New Products, Ideas, Projects
+ Delphi64 bit compiler preview
+ MACOSX FishFacts DEMO

What’s New in the IDE (Marco Cantù)
+ SubVersion
+ BeyondCompare
+ AQTime

New features in the RTL, RTTI (Daniele Teti)
+ Threading
+ JSON
+ Virtual Methods Interceptor
+ RegEx
+ CodeSite Express

Agile Development (Daniele Teti)
+ UML modeling
+ audits, metrics
+ repository
+ unit testing
+ Final Builder

Web, Cloud e Database Support (Marco Cantù)
+ Microsoft Azure Components
+ Deploy in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

What’s new in Datasnap (Daniele Teti and MArco Cantù)
+ Developing DataSnap server (Daniele)
+ DS Authentication/Authorization (Daniele)
+ DS Filters (Daniele)
+ DS RequestFilters (Marco)
+ Using DS from Delphi Client (Daniele)
+ Using DS from PHP Client (Daniele)
+ Using DS from Javascript Client (Marco)
+ Using DS from Android Client (Daniele)

Summary and Q&A

The last DEMO has been an Android APP wich use a REST DataSnap Server built with Delphi. Audience has been very excited about it.

Many attendedees have been very interested in the upcoming ITDevCon (www.itdevcon.it) and for the new courses in the bit Time offers.

Some of the photos are uploaded on Google Picasa. You can see them here.

This is a very busy time.

Some news:

• RAD STUDIO XE is out
• The ITDevCon time table will be published ASAP. This year I’m working to create a Time Table even more interesting than the last year (not simple!). The speakers will talk about DELPHI XE, RADPHP XE and a*LOT* of DataSnap. Complete list of topic are available in the conference web site home page.
• The italian RADSTUDIO XE events will be held in September, Tuesday 21 ROME and Wednesday 22 MILAN
• Busy time also for this blog… I’m planning some really interesting stuff that I working on:
  • Nice stuff with the Delphi Language
  • MVC framework with scripting engine for web development in Delphi
  • DORM, the Delphi ORM
  • Some real-world samples for the new RAD STUDIO XE

What other to say?

Stay tuned

Also this year I was at Delphi Day with many others bit Time co-workers.
This year I did a speech about Continuous Integration and Unit Test with Delphi.

I showed some of the methodologies and tools that we used in bitTime for long and for whom we also offer training.

Many Delphi programmers and companies should consider adoption of this tecnique for do more and better with the same effort (and the same money).

The event was interesting and was also an opportunity to meet some of the Italian Delphi programmers with which to meet and exchange ideas.

Marco wrote a nice summary of the event in his blog.

My interview at PHP Day 2010 has been published on php.html.it.

This is the link to the article.

This is the video on youtube.

The interview is only in italian language.

Giovedì scorso si è conclusa la prima edizione di ITDevCon, la conferenza europea dedicata interamente a Delphi e alle tecnologie e metodologie ad esso collegate.
Aver partecipato alla sua organizzazione selezionando i contenuti tecnici è stato molto impegnativo, ma visto il successo, altrettanto gratificante.
Ringrazio gli speaker che hanno proposto topic ad alto contenuto informativo e tecnico nonostante alcuni argomeni affrontati richiedessero, probabilmente, più tempo di quello a disposizione (le sessioni sono durate 55 minuti).

Alcuni degli speaker che hanno partecipato, hanno già scritto sui propri blog le loro impressioni.

Pavel Glowacki, che è stato uno degli speaker con più talk, ha pubblicato un meticoloso e lusinghiero resoconto riguardante i 2 giorni di conferenza.

L’ottimo Marco Cantù, con le sue 6 sessioni, come al solito ha contribuito a mantenere molto alto il contenuto tecnico e informativo di ITDevCon.

L’instancabile Boian Mitov, un nome conosciuto ai più per le sue ottime suite di componenti, è stato una delle piacevoli New Entry nell’ecosistema degli eventi “Live” relativi a Delphi. Ha tenuto ben 5 sessioni. Scrivendo della conferenza, sembra avere apprezzato anche la pizza e il vino italiano, concordo pienamente Boian!

Daniel Magin, infine, ha “improvvisato” una sessione riguardo allo sviluppo per iPhone.

In conclusione, ringrazio tutti gli speaker che hanno partecipato e hanno contribuito alla riuscita dell’evento.
Abbiamo fortemente voluto che questa conferenza fosse anche un momento di confronto, formazione e uno sguardo verso il mondo “Non Delphi” con l’obbiettivo di migliorare il “Mondo Delphi”.
E i primi feedback sono stati incoraggianti.

Ecco alcuni link ai blog degli speaker che hanno parlato di ITDevCon.

Pawel Glowacki
http://blogs.embarcadero.com/pawelglowacki/2009/11/12/38831
http://blogs.embarcadero.com/pawelglowacki/2009/11/11/38811

Boian Mitov
http://labpacks.blogspot.com/

Marco Cantù
http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/itdevcon_2009_report.html

Johan Aludden
http://johanaludden.com/weblog/2009/11/12/itdevcon/

Grazie di cuore a tutti, ci vediamo l’anno prossimo!

Tomorrow I travel to Verona to the ITDevCon the Italian Delphi Conference.
The conference will be at 11-12 november, and will be REALLY great!

You can see the time table here.

At this conference I will speak about:

• Marshal e UnMarshal in Delphi 2010
• Enterprise Data Access patterns in Delphi
• Delphi e i messaging systems… ZeroMQ + AMQP e ActiveMQ + STOMP

My speeches will be in italian language only.

See you in Verona!