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My Delphi conferences this fall: DelphiTage.de, ITDevCon.it, no EKON (entwickler-konferenz.de)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19

Nicolette and me on the Antarctic peninsulaWhile scheduling this year’s projects, it was clear that it would become impossible to have the summer holiday in the summer (last year was also outside, as we fulfilled Nicolette’s dream: visit the Antarctic region).

So we moved this year’s holiday to early November, hoping that would be outside the Fall conference season.

Alas, EKON (Entwickler-Konferenz.de), this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, moved themselves to November, so this will be the first EKON ever that I won’t attend (out of 3 or 4 people that never missed one). Sorry guys I will miss the great speakers, sessions and workshops (:

I am going to speak on two other European Delphi conferences though:

I’m really looking forward meeting the attendees, speakers and organizations there. Conferences are always a lot of fun and a great way for me of learning new things.

–jeroen

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EKON15 download materials on-line at bo.codeplex.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03

I uploaded the EKON15 conference download materials to http://bo.codeplex.com.

The changeset you are after is http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70872

It contains most of the materials for the Delphi Tage and the Delphi Live conferences too, though I will upload the missing pieces soon.

–jeroen

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EKON 15 conference news and discount (German text at the end of the blog post): Cary Jensen presents the keynote @caryjensen #ekon

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/11

EKON 15 – first day has many English sessions

From 26 till 28 of October, I’ll be speaking at the 15th EKON conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.

I just sat next to the conference organizer, and he proudly announced that well known and long time Delphi guru Cary Jensen will be presenting the keynote on the evolution of Delphi from Delphi 1 to XE2.

I still have the disks marked “Wasabi” and “Mango” from the early 90s (and funny that Microsoft is using the same name for a 7.5 product, where Delphi 1 was a real revolution).

Next to the German sessions, there will be English sessions as well: Cary also does his other sessions that day (on cross platform development, windows services, and RESTful webservices).

Being a German conference, most of the other sessions will be in German, but it is good that the English ones are all in one day: you get a one-day visit to conference as a non-German speaker, get a discount and visit the beautiful city of Dusseldorf (especially the Altstadt is recommended).

Contact me for more information on discounts: there are both discounts for the English day and the full the whole conference.

On the EKON 15 site there is a nice conference planner and session overview.

Last but not least, on friday after the conference, Edwin van der Kraan and I will present a full day Delphi XE2 workshop covering x64, new VCL and of course FireMonkey cross platform development (so bring your Mac and iOS devices with you!).

15. EKON Konferenz – Delphi XE2 und mehr…

Vom 26. bis zum 28. Oktober findet die 15. Entwickler Konferenz (EKON) im Renaissance Hotel in Düsseldorf statt. Ich werde als Speaker ebenfalls vor Ort sein.

Als ich gerade mit dem Organisator der Konferenz zusammen saß, verkündete er mir stolz, dass Cary Jensen, bekannter und langjähriger Delphi-Guru, auf der EKON 15 eine Keynote zu Delphis Evolution von Delphi 1 zu XE2 halten wird.

Ich bin immer noch im Besitz von Disketten aus den frühen 90er Jahren, die mit „Wasabi“ und „Mango“ beschriftet sind (witzig dabei ist, dass Microsoft den gleichen Namen für ein 7.5-Produkt nutzt, während es bei Delphi 1.0 eine richtige Revolution gab).

Neben den deutschen Sessions werden auf der EKON auch Sessions auf English angeboten: Cary wird unter anderem auch über Cross-Plattform-Entwicklung, Windows Services und RESTful Web Services sprechen.

Zwar werden die meisten Sessions auf Deutsch gehalten, jedoch gibt es diesmal eine Besonderheit bei den englischen Sessions: Diese finden an einem Tag statt!
Somit können auch die Nicht-Deutschsprachigen für ermäßigten Eintritt an den Sessions auf Englisch teilnehmen und ganz nebenbei die schöne Innenstadt Düsseldorfs erkunden
(besonders die Altstadt ist sehr empfehlenswert).

Zu guter Letzt präsentieren Edwin van der Kraan und ich am Freitag einen ganztägigen XE2 Power Workshop zu x64, New VCL und natürlich zur FireMonkey Cross-Plattform-Entwicklung (bringen Sie also Ihre Macs und iOS-Geräte mit!).

Bei weiteren Fragen, Interesse und Infos über die Ermäßigungen können Sie mich gerne kontaktieren (Ermäßigte Preise gibt es sowohl für den English-Day als auch für die Gesamtkonferenz). Auf der Website finden Sie eine übersichtlichen Zeitplaner, die Sessions im Überblick und alle weiter Informationen zur Entwickler Konferenz.

–jeroen

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Just uploaded by BASTA.NET conference session materials on .NET Cross Platform Mobile Development on Windows 7, Android and iOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/27

This morning I gave a well attended session at the BASTA.NET conference on .NET Cross Platform Mobile Development on Windows 7, Android and iOS

If you were attending my session, or just interested in Cross Platform Development with a touch – pun intended – of .NET (and Mono, MonoTouch, MonoDroid, MonoMac, Xcode) then you can download the materials here: http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70132 and http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70133 (yes, 2 change sets: somehow with SVN  ”Check for modifications” I still missed part of the batch).

It consists of the PDF with session slides and the demo apps based on an old (.NET 1.1 and .NET Compact Framework 1.0 era) C# tic tac toe demo (which was based on some Turbo Pascal sources from 20+ years ago), now revived for the Windows Phone 7 (with Visual Studio), iOS (with MonoTouch) and Android (with MonoDroid) platforms.

The conference is held at the beautifully designed Rheingoldhalle conference center adjacent to the Rhine (German: Rhein) river in Mainz, Germany.

Oh: and I enjoyed a bit of the great weather outside (while it lasts <g>).

–jeroen

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Delphi XE2 FireMonkey: the reason you should not have used assembly

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/09

Right now, I’m porting a bunch of stuff over to FireMonkey in Delphi XE 2 so it can run cross platform.
(Be sure to attend the RAD Studio XE2 World Tour when possible, this stuff is way cool!)

Having avoided Windows x86 assembly in my own sources for years, I’m astonished by the number of 3rd party libraries that do.

Right now, third party libraries that you want to use with FireMonkey need these requirements:

  1. In order to run on x64 or OS X:
    Don’t rely on x86 assembly instructions, or provide alternatives for other platforms than Windows x86
  2. In order to run on the an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch iOS device (which all run on Arm), or iOS simulator from the iOS SDK (which is not an emulator, it runs x86):
    Be compatible with Free Pascal 2.5.1.

And the fact that you should have separated your business logic from your UI logic years ago :)

Of course that was what the Future proofing your Delphi apps seminar from Simon Stuart was about.

What baffles me is that so little 3rd party code adheres to that.

–jeroen

PS:

Today and tomorrow I’m be at the German Delphi-Tage.de conference; I’ve already met a lot of people in the Delphi XE2 tutorial and look forward to meet more tomorrow.
Contrary to what the schedule says, my session on a pragmatic Delphi code generator will be in German, I’m sure most attendees will like that.

Sunday I’ll fly to SFO to speak at the DelphiLive.com conference in San Jose, CA.
There, my preconference tutorial on Delphi Certification and sessions on XML and XSLT will be in English, as I’m sure more people there understand that better than German :)

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