ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year

By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon,

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CodeRage free online conference for Delphi and RAD Studio starts next week

By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero’s CodeRage virtual conference starts next week from October 17 2011, and is worth a look if you have any interest in Delphi or the new RAD Studio XE2.

There are sessions on 64-bit Delphi, the new cross-platform FireMonkey framwork, the new LiveBindings data binding system, Prism (Delphi for .NET), and extras including a

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PhoneGap likely to move to Apache Software Foundation

By tim, on September 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Nitobi’s Brian LeRoux, who works on PhoneGap, has announced the start of a process to move the project to the Apache Software Foundation:

We have initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The process is straightforward beginning w/ a submission of a proposal to the ASF that describes the

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Delphi and RAD Studio XE2 gets its first update as Embarcadero confesses copyright issue

By tim, on September 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero has posted its first update for Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2. Whether this shows commendable responsiveness, or that that the original release was buggy and premature, is a matter for debate.

Either way, the list of fixed bugs is extensive. There is also a copyright issue, since Embarcadero says – note use of

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Delphi for Windows, Mac and iOS: screenshots and video of cross-platform development

By tim, on August 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcardero is drip-feeding information about its forthcoming RAD Studio XE2 in an annoying manner; nevertheless the product does look interesting and promises cross-platform native code apps for Windows 64-bit, Windows 32-bit, Mac OS X and Apple iOS. I have grabbed some screens from a video recently posted by Embarcadero’s Andreano Lanusse; the video is

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What’s coming in Delphi RAD Studio XE2: more details of 64-bit and Mac announced, introducing FireMonkey

By tim, on August 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero’s David Intersimone has posted more details of what is coming in the new version of Delphi and RAD Studio XE2, to tie in with an international publicity tour.

One intriguing comment is a reference to FireMonkey:

with FireMonkey, the GPU-powered next-generation application platform, you’ll be able to create visually stunning HD and

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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 will have cross-platform compilation

By tim, on July 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A Google search for RAD Studio XE2, presumably the successor to RAD Studio XE which includes Delphi, Delphi Prism (for .NET), C++ Builder and RAD PHP, throws up the following page:

The actual links need a login for a closed beta unfortunately.

Hmm, what caught my eye is the entry for cross-platform

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Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I noticed the following remark from Embarcadero’s David Intersimone regarding Delphi, its application builder based on Pascal.

We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). This year you will also be

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Another Windows app store – but this time it is virtual. Embarcadero’s AppWave promises instant installs

By tim, on March 25th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero has announced the AppWave Store, a forthcoming app store for Windows which uses application virtualization to avoid the hassles and risks of the usual Windows install process.

The idea is that purchasing apps for Windows will be as simple as installing an app on a mobile using the Apple app store or

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Using SQLite 3 with Unicode in Delphi

By tim, on February 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve updated my SQLite3 Delphi wrapper for Unicode in Delphi 2009 and higher. Previous versions of the wrapper ducked the issue by using Ansi strings throughout.

I actually used Embarcadero Delphi XE for the development, but I would expect it to work in Delphi 2009 and higher, since it was in that version

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