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Sending Android Intents from Delphi (Part 1)

As you probably know, I work for the italian embarcadero representative (www.bittime.it), so last week, I’ve been in Milan (Italy) with the Delphi Product Manager Marco Cantù, to show the new Delphi XE5 for Android (and iOS…). Users (old and new) were enthusiastics. The Delphi-WAY combined with the Android openness and flexibility, is really a good way to develop mobile apps for the business customers.

ITDevCON 2013 - Call 4 Paper

\ Dear potential ITDevCon speaker, I’m building the agenda for next ITDevCon that will be held next november 14th, 15th in Verona (Italy), the same location of the past year. This will be the 5th edition ( we’re getting conference experts J ) The call for papers are officially open right now, so if you want to propose some speeches, I’ll be glad to see it.

Datasnap Filters Compendium updated to XE

Very quick info. Not tremendous useful today as when developed (Delphi 2010 time frame) but, if someone is still using my DSFC, now can find the XE4 version on google code. Currently works all the speed test and the server/client test. Consider this as a very stable beta :-) https://code.google.com/p/dsfc/

Datasnap Filters Compendium updated to XE4

Very quick info. Not tremendous useful today as when developed (Delphi 2010 time frame) but, if someone is still using my DSFC, now can find the XE4 version on google code. Currently works all the speed test and the server/client test. Consider this as a very stable beta :-) https://code.google.com/p/dsfc/

Book Review: "ZeroMQ" (PACKT Publishing)

[Introduction] [Some days ago I was contacted by a representative from PACKT Publishing asking me to write a review for their last book about the ZeroMQ library.] \ In 2009 I was looking for a fast, very fast, messaging system for a complex project and I meet ZeroMQ. At that time there was the 1.

My Delphi STOMP Client is now compatibile with iOS

Thank you to Marco Mottadelli, one of the active contributors to my Delphi STOMP Client open source project. Now the STOMP client is compatibile with: Delphi Win32/Win64 Delphi for iOS FreePascal It use INDY or Synapse as a TCP library, obviously on iOS you have to use INDY. Project is on google code.

Sneak peek to simple integration between DMVCFramework and DORM

This is a really simple (not optimized and dirty) integration between the upcoming DMVCFramework (WebBroker based MVC framework) and DORM, “the Delphi ORM”. [This is the DMVCFramework controller with the relative mapping and methods. In the method “GetUsers” dorm is used to execute a select to the database using the sanitized parameter passed on the url.

#3 "dorm, the Delphi ORM" bullettin

A veeery log time after the last dorm bullettin. But, as usual, I was been very busy on some projects (not only dorm) and the time goes by… However, dorm has been extended, polished and improved over the last few months. Has been used in a couple other projects in my compoany (www.

DataSnap XE3 concurrency problems and Update1

If you know DataSnap, probably you know the famous post by Roberto Schneiders about its stability problems (http://robertocschneiders.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/datasnap-analysis-based-on-speed-stability-tests/). Now, after some (right) dust cloud, in the Update 1 Embarcadero fixed some bugs. I still haven’t the time to do an heavy test but the first “fast-and-dirty” test give some results, and I’d like to share my little tests.

ITDevCon 2012 – RECAP

Last friday is just ended the 4th edition of ITDevCon. This conference is, now, the biggest Delphi conference in Europe, in terms of speakers, speeches and topics… no doubt! Some numbers: 2 days 31 speeches 15 speakers from all over the world (Italy, USA, Norway, Slovenia, Benelux) 70 attendees c.a. from all over the world (Italy, Germany, Russia etc) 32 prizes offered by our (beloved) sponsors.