Yes, this is very cool. I’m not a Java hater, in terms of language (and I dont want to start a language-war), but some Java features, IMHO, are a bit uncomfortable for me. However, Java is very powerful and there are an enormous amount of good open source project for Java.

During a new dorm feature development, I’m faced a nice problem: I want to have a generic access to a “kind” of list Let’s say: procedure DoSomething(Obj: TMyListType); begin ... end; But, I want to have that generic access without a Layer Supertype object, because I need to be able to use objects from other libraries or 3rd party.

As all the attendees have seen, at the last ITDevCon, I’ve officially published dorm as an OpenSource project. \ You can find the project on google code: http://code.google.com/p/delphi-orm/ An introduction to dorm is available on google docs. dorm begins as a my personal project more than one year ago, and now is sponsored by bitTime Software that offers custom development, consultancy, mentoring and so on.

Last Friday ended the third edition of ITDevCon, the European Conference on Delphi and its related technologies. ITDevCon this year was even bigger and funny. 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.

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.

In less that a week, ITDevCon2011 will begin. To allow all members (and to let decide who is still undecided) to take advantage of the two days of intense training, we have just published the application ITDevCON2011 on the Android Market. You’ll find full conference program, speaker profiles and information about the sponsors.

Yes, it is a bit late, but this year has been really difficult to choose between all the speeches proposals arrived from all over the world. The new Delphi XE2 version (and the RAD Studio XE2 Suite too) are really full of new cool features and many of the best delphi developers want to show what can be done in Delphi XE2.

WARNING! I’ve been authorized by EMBARCADERO to write about RAD Studio XE2. RAD Studio XE2 is full of nice and exciting features. One of the most awaited of them is the LiveBindings. The LiveBindings is available to the VCL and the new FireMonkey framework and allows to connect a property object to another using an expression and a set of observers.

WARNING! I’ve been authorized by EMBARCADERO to write about RAD Studio XE2. RAD Studio XE2 is full of nice and exciting features. One of the most interesting IMHO is the DataSnap extension called “Mobile Connectors”. In the past, I’ve talked about connecting and using your datasnap REST service with Android, creating ad-hoc json messages and manually parsing the returned json messages.

Blaise Pascal Issue no.17 contains the first part of my articles about “DataSnap and Android”. During this series I’ll show how to write a complete TODO application using Delphi DataSnap Server and an Android thin client. Have a good reading.