I wasn’t sure they would arrive in time, but after a mad packing session by the guys in the office, I’m happy to say that our order of Cardboard Virtual Reality headsets arrived in time to be at our Australian and New Zealand RAD Studio XE8 events.
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XE7 VCL Events in Asia Pacific During November
We have a bunch of RAD Studio XE7 events coming up in APAC over the next month or so. They are free, half day sessions focussed on modernising existing VCL applications, where you’ll learn topics such as:
- New VCL components, such as TaskBar and JumpList and how to easily add them to existing apps
- Using the new Parallel Programming Library to improve the performance of your application
- Migrating a BDE application to FireDAC
- Extending an existing VCL application with a mobile companion app using App Tethering
The current list of cities, along with links to more details are:
RAD Studio XE6 in Perth and Adelaide
I’ll be in Perth and Adelaide next week showing off RAD Studio XE6.
I’ll be covering VCL and FireMonkey, BAAS, App Tethering, In App Payments and Ads, and probably a bunch of other things related to Windows, OSX, iOS and OSX.
You can get more details and register here.
6 Events, 6 Cities, 3 Days : IITP Mobile Development NZ Tour
If you’re anywhere near Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Tauranga, Dunedin or Christchurch next week, then you may see me rushing through looking stressed and/or over-caffeinated. In conjunction with the IITP, I’m presenting in all those cities on Mobile Development, using RAD Studio XE5 of course. Read On…
Where to see RAD Studio XE4 in the coming weeks
Things have been hectic since the XE4 launch. We’ve had in-person events in lots of countries around Asia. I’ve done Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but they’ve also been happening in Australia (with ADUG) and China, and we’ve had lots of webinars as well.
What has been really encouraging is the number of new people at the events. I’ve spoken to Xcode developers, Visual Studio developers and Java developers across multiple countries who are all trying out Delphi for the first time. Read On…
Call for Papers for ADUG Symposium 2013
The ADUG (Australian Delphi User Group) hold two, one-day conferences in the first half of the year, and each year they “import” a keynote speaker. They’ve just put out the call for papers for 2013, so if you’d like to score a free trip to Australia to present to a bunch of Delphi developers (don’t worry, we are mostly harmless), head over to their site and give them your ideas.
Avoiding Distributed Transactions
Last week I presented on “Building Distributed Applications That Don’t Suck” twice at the ADUG conferences in Melbourne and Canberra. As the name may suggest, it’s a heavily opinionated session about the common mistakes people make when building distributed systems, and some techniques you can use to avoid the mistakes.
One of the great things about opinionated sessions is that they spark arguments, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the discussions that started during the breaks between sessions and that have continued on in email since then. One of those discussions has been around distributed transactions, and my advice to actively look for opportunities to avoid them. In the session I discussed how, where the business rules allowed, you could use things like Idempotency and even ordering of inserts to avoid the cost of a distributed transaction. However, it was the topic of Eventual Consistency that caused the most angst.
Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey in Canberra this Wednesday
I’ll be in Canberra showing off Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey this Wednesday for ADUG. I know numbers are limited (we’ve been hitting venue capacity in most cities this tour) so if you’re going to be in the area, head here to register.
Have your say on the topics for the 2012 ADUG Symposium.
The ADUG Committee have started organising next year’s Symposium, and have created a short survey for feedback on topics that you might want to see. So, if you’re a Delphi or C++Builder developer and there’s a reasonable chance you’ll be in Australia around March or April of next year, then make yourself heard by filling out the survey.
RAD Studio World Tour, now with more cities and a few more details.
I promised to post more details of these upcoming events when I could. Well, now I can.
Current cities:
- Auckland (04 August 2011)
- Australia (Sydney/Melbourne, 11-12 August 2011)
- Seoul (12 August 2011)
- Taiwan (4 cities, 16-19 August 2011)
- Mumbai (17 August 2011)
- Bangalore (18 August 2011)
- Jakarta (9 September 2011)
…and here’s the very high-level description:
Whether you are building new applications, or migrating existing systems, this workshop will help you decide where to invest your team’s time and effort to make the most positive impact on your business, today and into the future.
You will hear about:
- Application frameworks
- Delphi 64-bit
- The future of database access
- DataSnap and Cloud
- Mobile development
Before you ask, yes, there will be more cities and countries added soon. Not just in Asia but around the world.