Yeah, this one is a little long.  The last bit is marc and I shooting the breeze for a bit about whatever.

This was also recorded out of order.  It was recorded before episodes 28 and 29.  I lost my original recordings and had to recreate it from marc’s recordings.  We had some lost audio in the call too, but it ended up coming out pretty good.

BTW, CyberEars (the podcast host) upgraded their download servers so we should have faster download speeds.  Let me know if you can tell a difference.  Also I replaced episode 8 that I accidently deleted a while ago.  Sorry about that!

Paweł Głowacki is Embarcadero Technologies Senior Software Consultant and Lead Technical Evangelist for Delphi and RAD Studio for the European region. Previously Paweł spent over 6 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services. As well as working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he also represents Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker.

This episode is part of our DelphiLive! speaker series.  Meet Paweł and all the other speakers and the Delphi R&D team in San Jose at DelphiLive!

Sessions:

• Delphi Wings – Experimental Delphi Primitive to Relational Mapper
  Delphi Wings is an experimental component-based native Delphi Win32 framework that simplifies building database application. With Wings Delphi developers define “entities” using standard simple Delphi types and have their data transparently stored and retrieved from arbitrary relational databases supported by Delphi dbExpress.
• Delphi DataSnap 2009 Deep Dive
  Delphi DataSnap 2009 Deep Dive provides in-depth coverage of Delphi programming with DataSnap 2009 framework. In this tutorial Pawel is going to cover four different types of DataSnap 2009 clients, DataSnap architecture, server objects life cycle management, the details of DataSnap JSON-based on the wire protocol and DataSnap customization options. The tutorial will also include building DataSnap clients in Delphi Prism communicating with Delphi 2009 native DataSnap servers.

Ray Konopka founded Raize Software, Inc. in 1995. Today, he serves as Raize Software’s President as well as Chief Architect for the company’s award winning CodeSite and Raize Components products. Ray is also the author of the highly acclaimed Developing Custom Delphi Components books and has published numerous magazine articles on software development. Ray specializes in user interface design and custom VCL and .NET component development, and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Sessions:

• Half day workshop: Creating Custom VCL Components
• Regular session: Creating Composite VCL Controls
• Regular session: Creating Custom WPF Controls in Delphi Prism

In this podcast we talk about his sessions at DelphiLive! and we get into the details of some of the secrets that make his Raize Components some of the best components out there.

This episode was recorded with Nick Hodges on Thursday, the 17th of April, 2009.  Nick discusses his new role as an R&D manager and some of the other changes going on at CodeGear.  Also discuss the upcoming release of Delphi, the DelphiLive! conference, and some of the suggestions on Delphi.UserVoice.com.

• Nick Hodges is now a Delphi R&D Manager.
• Michael Rozlog takes over his role as Delphi product manager.
• Delphi 2009 Update 3 is literally days away now.
• Be sure to leave your feedback on the Delphi UserVoice page.  There are four forums, so if you don’t see the feature request you are looking for, it may be in a different forum.  Nick said Embarcadero is looking at all their user feedback, including User Voice.  We marked a bunch of the suggestions with updated status.
• Wanna see what is next in Delphi?  Sign up for the Delphi Weaver and Delphi Prism betas.  Nick suggested that pretty much everyone who signs up will get accepted but are some pretty tough questions that you need to answer.
• Another great way to see what is coming up in the world of Delphi is to attend DelphiLive! of course we have a few podcasts about it too.
• You may be surprised how much more you can get for a little more money with Embarcadero’s All Access, which we also have a podcast about it too.  They are working on the Delphi instant-on still though.  It may be a platform for a component iTunes, which would be really cool.
• The Future of the Delphi compiler is still comming.

The episodes with Nick are always great ones, so I hope you enjoy it!  If there are other links I missed please add those in the comments.

The idea is to build a great light weight (lighter than Air) native Twitter client with Delphi 2009.  It will show off some of the cool Delphi 2009 features and will be available as open source via the MPL 1.1 or New BSD licenses.  While it uses some amazing 3rd party licenses, the goal is to make it buildable by everyone with Delphi 2009.

Recent contributions (Thanks guys!)

• Chuck Beasley donated his OAuth library – relicensed from GPL to MPL so it would be compatible.
• Gustavo Carreno donated some code to the Twitter lib too.

Other libraries

• DISQLite3 – A high performance, multi-user, fail-safeSQL-92 database engine with ACID transaction. Using the free version.
• Ararat Synapse – Blocking (synchronous) sockets or with limited non-blocking mode. Open source – BSD License.
• TMS Smooth Controls Pack – Feature-rich sophisticated looking & smoothly animated controls. Free with Delphi 2009.  Full version with source donated to the project by TMS – Thanks!
• Addict Spell Checker – Native Delphi spell checking component suite of controls. Premium commercial components – able to exclude via compiler directives.
• Delphi restLib – REST Library for Delphi derived from lingr-delphi. Worked with D2009, but uses WideString.

The project is hosted at Assembla in an SVN repository.  All 3rd party dependencies will be included when possible.

A few of the features we have in mind:

• Lightweight
• Groups of friends
  • Filter by Groups
  • Highlight by Groups
  • Autogrouping by keyword / hash tag usage
• Filter / Highlight by keywords
• Threading in the stream
  • Expand the thread to see what the tweet is in reply too
• Database that stores all your Tweets to allow easy searching
• Use the latest OAuth authentication (thanks to Chuck!)

The core Twitter API wrapper, and other parts as it makes sense, will target earlier versions of Delphi and FreePascal.  Additionally the project will be loosely coupled and fairly modular to allow peices to be removed or swapped out with minimum effort.

[Music Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton]

Guests:

• Olaf Monien
• Anders Ohlsson
• Frank Stepan

Vital Details:

• Where: San Jose, CA, USA
• When: May 13th – 16th 2009
• Who: All Delphi developers
• Web: www.delphilive.com
• Twitter: DelphiLive2009

This episode is the start of a series of podcasts.  I thought it would be more interesting if there was something more to this podcast then just interviewing people and discussing Delphi news.  So what we have done is started a series of Delphi projects that a small group of volunteers will work on and then discuss how the project goes via the podcast.  Our first projects is a Twitter client written in Delphi.

Leave suggestions for names for the client in the comments.  Allen Bauer is already using the Delphitter name.  I am kind of leaning towards something that combines both Delphi and Twitter, but it needs to not contain the whole word “Twitter,” but you can be creative too.  I’ll set up a poll with all the suggestions so everyone can vote.  I have a name in mind already, but I am not attached to it.

If you are excited about this then please spread the word!

• Greg Keller’s blog MetaFrequency
• DataRage – Database virtual conference
  
• ER/Studio – Database Modeling
  
• Rapid SQL – SQL IDE
• All-Access – All Embarcadero’s Database and Developer tools in one package

I just got an email on the Free 4GB ToolPod. Looks like we finally have portable USB Delphi.

Marco Cantù is on Twitter now, as well as Facebook and LinkedIn.  His latest books include the Delphi 2009 Handbook and Essential Pascal.  You can find more about him on his website, or keep track of him on his blog.  Marco lives in Piacenza, Italy, but frequently travels to consult and train on Delphi development.

Cary Jensen is now on Twitter as well and plans to frequently post about Delphi. He is President of Jensen Data Systems, Inc., a Texas-based company that specializes in Internet and database development training and consulting, and winner of the Delphi Informant Magazine 2003 and 2002 Readers Choice Awards for Best Training.

Marco and Cary are great.  We ended up talking about all sorts of stuff in addition to the Delphi Developer Days.  In fact, we will need to do another podcast to talk some more.

RemObjects Product Line

In this episode I talk to RemObjects’ marc hoffman (Chief Architect) and Mike Orriss (General Project Manager) about their product offerings.  You can follow them in the RemObjects Blog, or marc and Mike are both on Twitter.  You may recognize marc as a fairly regular guest on the podcast, and Mike is actually the keeper of the RemObjects Wiki’s, so you may know him from there.

I was surprised to learn that most all of their products are for both .NET and Delphi native, with some also being available for the Mac (Objective-C).  So if you are looking for some cross platform solutions then they appear to be the guys to talk to.  In fact, their Hydra is specifically for combining Delphi native and .NET into a single solution.

At the end of the podcast marc wanted to come up with some sort of deal for our listeners.  I think the end result is pretty cool, and gives any listener a chance to win their choice of products.  All you need to do is download one of their trials and check it out.  Then write about your experiences in your blog or on your website and leave a comment here linking to it by the end of February.

Then one entry will be selected at random to receive a free copy of whatever they reviewed.  This is a great opportunity to try out their products and possibly get one for free.  You can choose from Data Abstract, the RemObjects SDK, AnyDAC and Hydra.

Your experiences should be honest.  A positive or negative review will not influence your chances of winning.

On a side note I just love all of RemObjects product icons and art work.  I should have asked them who does their art work.  Check out their product wallpapers.  My favorite is the Delphi Prism one that looks like the Pink Floyd album cover.

Update: RemObjects just published their Software ROadmap 2009 v1.