![The Android Conference](/images/2011/06/home-bugdroid.png Yes! This is a great news! Before the two-days conference dedicated to Delphi, this year there will be the AndroidConference. The Android Conference The Android Conference will be a conference focused on Google Android development. Android is one of the most popular OS in the world. Now you can use it for your mobile applications.

Dear potential ITDevCon speaker, I’m building the agenda for next ITDevCon 2011 that will be held in late october in Verona, the same location of the past year. Dates will be announced ASAP. The call for papers are officially open right now, so if you want to propose some speeches, I’ll be glad to see it.

\ In this webinar I’ll show how to develop Android application talking with REST PHP WEB Services. After introducing the basic concepts, attendees of this session will be taken through how to REST-enable the server application, before building the client application targeting an Android phone. Topics covered in this webinar include:

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. \ 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).

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.

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.

Tomorrow I’m leaving from Rome to go to São Paulo (Brasil) for the annual Delphi Conference. This is the Brasilian Delphi Conference web site: http://latam.embarcadero.com/br/delphiconference/. I’ve a talk about Delphi and Android. I’m really excited for all the cool things that can be done with this technologies. For the conference talk, I’ve developed a DEMO Android application to manage customers and orders that use some mobile technologies available in the Android OS in my Samsung Galaxy S.

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)

In the last weeks (years) we have talk very often of the new compilers that should be in Delphi. Win64, MacOS, Linux, Other… OK, we want Delphi everywhere but… Delphi is the VCL! So why dont talk about ideas for it? What are the 2 most needed features for the VCL?

My yesterday post about this busy time, have raised some interest about DORM, the Delphi ORM. So, also if I still haven’t released any files, wish to expose some internals about DORM. DORM is an implementation of the DataMapper design pattern written having Hibernate in mind. It’s completely unit tested and have the following features: