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Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development - Lesson 1 Additional Info Links

David Intersimone — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:54 +0000

Here are some of the links to additional information for my Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development course for Delphi and C++. These links are part of the Lesson 1 course book.

The FireMonkey Application Platform - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/FireMonkey_Application_Platform
What’s new in Delphi and C++Builder XE2 - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/What%27s_New_in_Delphi_and_C%2B%2BBuilder_XE2
Solutions for Windows and Mac Software Application Development -http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/solutions-for-windows-and-mac-software-application-development
FireMonkey Datasheet - http://www.embarcadero.com/images/firemonkey_datasheet_21mar12.pdf
Video: Building your first Delphi and C++Builder FireMonkey HD Applications - http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/42097
InterBase Labs – Step by Step Tutorials - http://www.embarcadero.com/database-in-action/interbase-labs

Join the weekly classes "Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development" for Delphi and C++ at http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1205-06FireMonkeyWebinarSeries

New lessons each Thursday

May 3 - June 28, 2012

Delphi language version at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT / 17:00 UTC
C++ language version at 11:00AM PDT / 2:00PM EDT / 18:00 UTC

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Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development - Lesson 2 Additional Info Links

David Intersimone — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:06:02 +0000

Here are some of the links to additional information for my Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development course for Delphi and C++. These links are part of the Lesson 2 course book.

FireMonkey platform prerequisites - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/FireMonkey_Platform_Prerequisites
Connecting your PC to a Mac - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Connecting_Your_PC_to_a_Mac
Differences between Windows and other platforms - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Differences_between_Windows_and_Other_Platforms
Watch the 90 second video “Multi-Platform Development with FireMonkey” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzLCGvpGGAg
Read the Marco Cantu white paper, “Discover FireMonkey – The Next Generation Business Application Platform” - http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1110FireMonkey-MarcoCantuWhitepaper
Download the FireMonkey architecture schematic poster that shows the major groupings of the platform (in PDF format) - http://www.embarcadero-info.com/firemonkey/firemonkey_chart_poster.pdf

Join the weekly classes "Getting Started with Windows and Mac Development" for Delphi and C++ at http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1205-06FireMonkeyWebinarSeries

New lessons each Thursday

May 3 - June 28, 2012

Delphi language version at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT / 17:00 UTC
C++ language version at 11:00AM PDT / 2:00PM EDT / 18:00 UTC

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PrintDat! now supports Delphi XE2

David Intersimone — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:40:02 +0000

I received the following email from Barry McClure of Grebar Systems Inc telling me that PrintDat! now supports Delphi XE2 for 32 and 64 bit Windows.

"As of April 1st, we started shipping PrintDAT! v1.60 which works with Delphi XE2 32-bit and 64-bit (VCL). Our PrintDAT! component now has Unicode output which supports over 40 different languages in a single report. PrintDAT! is a report component that can create ad-hoc reports from grids, tables or queries in just one second. Drop a TpdtPrintDAT component onto a form with a grid or table and you’ve got yourself a report. It is the fastest report designer on the planet, bar none!"

PrintDat! supports Delphi versions 3 to XE2. You’ll find all of the details at http://www.grebarsys.com/html/printdat_features.html.

Thanks for the update, Barry, and thank you for supporting our customers.

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eLearning Series: Getting Started with FireMonkey - begins May 3, 2012

David Intersimone — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:38:12 +0000

I am preparing a new "Getting Started with FireMonkey" e-Learning Series which starts on Thursday May 3. There will be new lessons each Thursday during May 3 to June 28, 2012. The series will have separate lessons for Delphi and C++ developers.

Each week the lessons will start at

Delphi language version at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT / 17:00 GMT
C++ language version at 11:00AM PDT / 2:00PM EDT / 18:00 GMT

If you’re new to FireMonkey, if you are a Windows developer looking to develop applications for Macintosh and iOS, or you want to brush up on your skills, you’re invited to join Embarcadero’s David Intersimone for a new training series on Windows and Mac development with FireMonkey. Each week you can participate in a new 30 minute lesson followed by a 15 minute Q&A session where you can get answers to your questions about programming with FireMonkey.

When you register, you will receive notifications of upcoming lessons plus access to recorded versions of earlier lessons that you can view at any time.

Schedule of Lessons:

May 3: Lesson 1 – Introduction to FireMonkey and Development Environment Setup
May 10: Lesson 2 – Creating your First FireMonkey Desktop Application
May 17: Lesson 3 – The Integrated Development Environment
May 24: Lesson 4 – Programming Language Basics
May 31: Lesson 5 – Designing a FireMonkey HD User Interface
June 7: Lesson 6 – Connecting to Data
June 14: Lesson 7 – Creating a FireMonkey 3D Application
June 21: Lesson 8 – Using FireMonkey image and Animation Effects
June 28: Lesson 9 – Building Multi-Client, Multi-Platform, Multi-Tier applications

You can register for the series at http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1205-06FireMonkeyWebinarSeries. Don’t worry, if you can’t make one or more of the lessons, I will be recording them so that you can catch up.

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Yes our offices are closed, but you can still order online from our shop sites

David Intersimone — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:31:32 +0000

We’ve been running special offers all quarter. It’s Friday, March 30, 2012 and our offices around the world are closed. But, you can still take advantage of the special offers using our online shop site as long as you order before midnight (11:59:59pm in your local time zone). Thank you to all of the developers who have purchased our XE2 products. We will continue to help you with your development projects in the coming months and years. For those of you who are still evaluating our XE2 releases, let me know what more we can do to convince you to purchase.

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FireMonkey Quick Start Guide now available on our DocWiki

David Intersimone — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:48:15 +0000

The Embarcadero documentation team has put together a new "FireMonkey Quick Start Guide" that will help everyone new to FireMonkey. The guide will take you get started building Windows, Mac and iOS Applications with FireMonkey. Quoting from the opening page of the Quick Start Guide, "This Quick Start Guide walks you through the basic development steps needed to create your first FireMonkey application and is designed to give you a basic understanding of the FireMonkey business application platform. It also includes links to detailed tutorials at each step of the development process to help you acquire in-depth knowledge of the FireMonkey application platform."

Included in the FireMonkey Quick Start Guide are tutorials, information and links for

Welcome to FireMonkey, the first native CPU- and GPU-powered application platform for building rich business applications. Get your next generation application development started today by downloading the trial and/or buy our FireMonkey supporting XE2 products: Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RAD Studio XE2.

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Embarcadero Prism XE2 Webinars today - 6am event was great. You can join us at 11am and 5pm

David Intersimone — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:04:08 +0000

We just completed the 6am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time / 13:00 UTC) Embarcadero Prism XE2 webinar, ".NET Development in RAD Studio XE2 with Embarcadero Prism XE2" with Jim McKeeth. The webinar shows you how to get the most out of Embarcadero Prism and shows you what’s new in Prism XE2. Jim did a great job showing everyone the language and application development capabilities of Prism and the Oxygene compiler for .NET. Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning.

In the approximately one hour webinar Jim covers:

New Prism XE2 productivity enhancements
Prism language features including Duck Typing, Parallelism and class contracts
Prism and Delphi interoperability
And a sneak peak at how to build Windows 8 Metro applications with a pre-release version Prism

There are two more Prism XE2 webinars today at 11am PDT (18:00 UTC) and 5pm PDT (00:00 UTC March 29). You can register for the webinars at http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1203PrismMcKeethWebinar3-28.

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Last week for special offers on RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2

David Intersimone — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:02:50 +0000

A reminder that this is the last week of our special offers for RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2. XE2 lets you build Windows and Mac applications using one codebase with our new FireMonkey platform for HD (high definition) and 3D business applications.

Move up to XE2 and be able to build Windows, Mac, Web and Mobile applications for Windows 32 (Delphi/C++), Windows 64 (Delphi), Macintosh OS X (C++/Delphi) and iOS (Delphi). With RAD Studio you can also use RadPHP XE2 to build mobile applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry.

There are tons of resources on our RAD Studio Resource Center with links to articles, videos and product information. Don’t miss this last chance to upgrade to XE2. Check out the 31 RAD Studio XE2 videos at http://www.embarcadero.com/31-days-of-december.

See the great things that developers are saying about our XE2 products:

You can upgrade from any earlier version of our products to XE2 and also take advantage of our buy one tool get one free tool. It all ends this Friday, March 30, 2012.

If you are still unsure, send me and email with your questions and I will do everything possible to help you. Send me an email to davidi@embarcadero.com.

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Resource links used in my Windows and Mac development webinars today…

David Intersimone — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:40:04 +0000

At the end of today’s "Using your C++ and Delphi programming skills to create Macintosh Applications" webinars I listed a collection of resource links. Here the links from the webinar presentation. Stay tuned to the webinar registration page for information about the on-demand replay that should appear sometime next week.

RAD in Action series of white papers, webinars and videos - http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action
CodeRage 6 Replays containing lots of XE2 application development tips and tricks - http://www.embarcadero.com/coderage/sessions
24 hours of Delphi Replays - http://cc.embarcadero.com/Author/3934
Embarcadero videos are also available on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/EmbarcaderoTechNet/
Embarcadero information and links appear on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/embarcaderotech
Embarcadero is active on Twitter - http://twitter.com/EmbarcaderoTech
RAD Studio Resource Center contains tons of links to useful Windows, Mac, Web and Mobile application development articles and videos – http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/resource-center
RAD Studio XE2 samples on SourceForge contains most of the samples and demos used in our webinars and also included in our products - https://radstudiodemos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/radstudiodemos/branches/RadStudio_XE2/
Embarcadero Developer Community contains articles, links to webinar replays and examples – http://edn.embarcadero.com
Embarcadero Blogs contain posts by many of our employees with information and examples to help in your application development success – http://blogs.embarcadero.com/. Especially check out Anders Ohlsson’s blog posts about Delphi and FireMonkey development for iOS - http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ao/category/ios and math and wave visualization using FireMonkey - http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ao/category/firemonkey
Embarcadero DocWiki contains all of online help, examples and links to additional development tutorials and information - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/
Cross Platform RAD Studio XE2 DocWiki contains specific information about building Windows and Mac applications - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Cross-Platform_Applications_Index
Apple – Your First Mac App - contains a tutorial that takes you though using XCode to build your first Mac GUI application. Following the steps and then watching how quickly and easily you can build applications with FireMonkey with no (or few lines) of code, you’ll want to use XE2 for your Mac and Windows development using one code base - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General/Conceptual/Mac101/Articles/00_Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010611
iOS Human Interface Guidelines web site will help guide you how to build Delphi and FireMonkey iOS applications that will be accepted into Apple’s AppStore - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/Introduction/Introduction.html

Thank you to all of the developers who spent their time with me at the 6am, 11am and 5pm webinars. Let me know if I can do anything additional to help you use our XE2 releases to create great looking Macintosh applications.

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Webinars this Wednesday - Use your Windows C++ and Delphi Programming Skills to Create Mac Applications

David Intersimone — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:29:25 +0000

Have you noticed an increased presence of Mac in the workplace in the last few years? Forrester says that almost half of enterprises (with 1,000 employees or more) are issuing Macs to employees – and they plan a 52% increase in the number of Macs they issue in 2012. How can you reach this growing market if you’re a Windows software developer?

This Wednesday, I will show you how to create Mac applications using your Windows development skills to create a Windows and Mac application from a single codebase in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE2. There will be three webinars during the day. I hope you will be able to attend one of them and see how you can use your programming skills to build visually stunning business applications.

Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Times:

6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm CET / 1300 GMT
11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT / 1800 GMT
5:00pm PDT / March 22 11:00am Australian EDT

Register for the webinars at http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1203RADWinMacWebinar3-21

Reminder: You have a little more than 11 days to take advantage of our upgrade and buy one get one free promotions. You’ll find all of the special offer details at http://www.embarcadero.com/upgrade-from-any-earlier-version-to-xe2 and http://www.embarcadero.com/bogo-info.

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