http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball Delphi, FireMonkey, Rad Studio Thu, 10 May 2012 11:42:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Free White Paper and Source Code! Are you either a Windows software developer using Visual Studio.. or A programmer who has been using VCL in Delphi and C++Builder? if so, you may be interested in incorporating Win/Mac functionality from the new FireMonkey application platform into your applications? If so, my latest white paper is now available. Download ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/05/10/free-white-paper-for-integrating-firemonkey-into-vcl-visual-studio-c-and-c-applications/ If you have ever wondered how to debug when developing a library... than this 2 minute video is for you! This video uses code from my free white paper for developing multi-platform libraries Download the white paper for Integrating FireMonkey into C++, C#, Delphi VCL, and C++ Builder applications. http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/05/10/debugging-a-firemonkey-library-with-delphi-and-c-builder/ Great feed back from Developer Direct today. Twitter was a buzz with David I and Marco Cantu joining in the conversation. A popular request at the end of the session was for the source code for the windows and mac search context demo that I wrote. You can find that here : http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/28773 This ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/05/04/win-mac-search-context-demo/ With the move to multi-platform now a possibility with FireMonkey, one question I often get asked is what database should I use? Personally for WinMac development I could think of nothing I'd rather use than InterBase. I've been using InterBase for well over a decade, and it has matured into ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/05/03/interbase-technical-videos/ Currently I'm working on some new demos and I needed a way to quickly grab from the user updated database connection details that worked in VCL and FireMonkey. This is a common task in an application and your left with two options. Write your own dialog for the data entry (which ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/04/24/multi-line-winmac-ready-input-dialogs-in-delphi-and-c-builder/ Since I last posted about developer events in South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town), and our events in London and Dublin, I've been busy on the road for three more hectic weeks across Scandinavia (Helsinki -Finland; Ballerup - Denmark; Oslo - Norway) Where I found a very cool named restaurant at the hotel ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/03/29/we-like-to-get-a-round-a-bit/ Following on from South Africa, this week I've had the pleasure of visiting two more cities with over 80 more developers to talk about RadStudio XE2 and FireMonkey. First stop was London and Tower42 where I again was presenting with David I. This was a great event with so many customers ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/03/09/firemonkey-in-london-dublin/ Last year saw Embarcadero head to South Africa for the first time with two events organised in partnership with Developer Connections (our local partner for South Africa). Due to the success of the events, Dr Glenn Wylie (Director of Partner Sales covering South Africa & Sub Sahara Africa) promised he would get David ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/03/08/launch-of-south-african-delphi-user-group/ Following on from the 17th Birthday of Delphi this week, I've had a few people ask me about up-coming events. :-) Embarcadero Events The best place to find out about events and webinars Embarcadero are running is via the events page of the website. You can also get email notifications, which you can manage notifications ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/02/15/events/ This example shows how to make a FireMonkey 3D filing card system for editing data on Fish Facts. (As seen on Delphi's 17th Birthday webinar) Follow this link for the code for BizFlow http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/28751 For the video replay of BizFlow click here. http://youtu.be/TbIgGRWGA-I [caption id="attachment_115" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Biz Flow - FireMonkey 3D ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/stephenball/2012/02/14/biz-flow-3d-fish-facts-editor-for-firemonkey/