Tiburon News, Information, and Sneak Peeks

Lots of information starting to roll in on Tiburon.

• Marco Cantu has a series of videos on what he’s been doing with Tiburon — 1, 2, 3, 4
• We’ve started publishing a series of short "sneak peaks" on what is coming up in Tiburon. First Delphi one is "What’s New in the VCL in Delphi and C++Builder 2009". Be sure to sign up to be notified about new ones.
• Julian Bucknall has some comments.  A summary might be "Fast install, compiled EZDSL without a hitch".
• Get Ready for Delphi 2009 and Unicode from Jan Goyvaerts. He also talks about the new UTF8String.
• Craig Stuntz is talking about Generics and Anonymous Methods.

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posted @ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:29:58 +0000 by Nick Hodges

Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 preview webinars, Wednesday August 13

I will be presenting two webinars next Wednesday, August 13, giving an demonstration of What’s New in the upcoming Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009.  In each of the webinars I will showcase what is new in the language, library, components, and IDE.

You will find additional information in the developer network calendar and the following articles.  Each webinar will last approximately 1 hour (depending on Q&A). You can pre-register for each webinar using the link in each article.

• Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:00 AM - Live Webinar: What’s new in Delphi 2009
• Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:00 PM - Live Webinar: What’s new in C++Builder 2009

I hope you will join me next week.  It’s going to be fun!

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posted @ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:58:44 +0000 by David Intersimone

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posted @ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:08:07 +0000 by David Intersimone

The Gravatar Olympics

As you may be aware, CodeCentral now has support for Gravatar avatars. In honour of the pending Summer Olympics, I think it would be fitting to have a little competition. In this event (feel free to draw your own parallels with an actual Olympic event, because I’m too lazy to do so ;-)), the winning team will be the one with the most Gravatars associated with it. Teams will be split according to the first letter of the CodeCentral author’s last name. At the time of posting this, Team M is winning with a total of 4 avatars, closely followed by Team K, who has 3.

As this article explains, associating a Gravatar with your Developer Network account is easy. Simply sign up for a Gravatar account, using the e-mail address associated with your Developer Network profile.

The competition will run from now, until the Olympic Closing Ceremony on 24th August, so on your marks… get set… go!

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posted @ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:29:33 +0000 by David Clegg

Sneak a peek at Tiburon

The first two videos in the Sneak Peek series are up and live on the Developer Network.

What’s New in the VCL?

C++0x support!

Enjoy!

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posted @ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:48:39 +0000 by Anders Ohlsson

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #74

• Doh!  Fixed it to be #74
• Tiburon is so feature rich that Marco needs a whole book to describe them all.
• I just opened up my old Websnap components project in Tiburon and compiled it.  It compiled just fine, and spun out about a dozen warnings. All had to do with sets of characters.  I used the new CharInSet routine, and had it all cleaned up in about five minutes. 
• Then, I took some code that I thought might be tougher — some HTML parsing code that was originally written in the Delphi 3 time frame.   That took, oh, another five minutes to get up and running perfectly — and it uses strings, PChars, and pointers rather extensively.  I simply changed the PChars to PAnsiChars in the sections of code that needed it.  I left the Char and string declarations the same where it didn’t matter,  and it all worked.  If I want to make it accept UTF-16 characters, it would be a bit more work, but to get it working like before — that is, accepting only ANSI characters — was pretty much trivial.
• And you’ll be happy to know that TSmiley compiled without change and works perfectly in Tiburon.

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posted @ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:38:25 +0000 by Nick Hodges

Tiburon Preview - this Friday, August 1st - 11am PDT

Join us this Friday, August 1st at 11am Pacific Daylight Time for a first look at Tiburon, the next Delphi and C++ Builder release.

The presentation will last for one hour and will cover what is new in Tiburon including language enhancements, new VCL components, database and DataSnap, and new IDE capabilities.  This webinar is for Delphi and C++ developers.  It will be presented in english and will last for one hour.

 To pre-register for this event go to

https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/advancedsw_ccc/Registration.aspx?pageName=cv0btr3dhzvvhl83

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posted @ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:29:55 +0000 by David Intersimone

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #73

• Delphi’s Anonymous Methods gets a nice mention in programming.reddit.com.  Feel free to bump that article up!  And don’t hesitate to read the interesting comments from our compiler engineer, Barry Kelly. (And by the way, the picture on Barry’s Blog needs updating — he’s far more hirsute now.  )
• Want to be Embarcadero’s WebMaster?
• Check out TStringBuilder.  The RTL also includes classes called TCharacter and TEncoding.  More on that to come.
• Nice review of Delphi for PHP.

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posted @ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:05:48 +0000 by Nick Hodges

Tiburon Preview online en español - Viernes, 1º de agosto

Comunidad Delphi,

Viernes, 1º de agosto, a las 9am (tiempo de California – PDT), presentaremos algunas de las novedades de Tiburon, la próxima versión de Delphi  y  C++ Builder.

Para verificar el horario correspondiente a su país, accese a la liga: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

El evento será en línea y gratuito, con duración aproximada de 30 minutos.

Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de conocer algunas de las novedades de  la próxima versión de Delphi y C++ Builder:

• Nuevos componentes de la VCL
• Nuevos recursos en el lenguaje
• Nuevo DataSnap
• Y mucho más.

Se pueden registrar  a través del sitio: http://latam.codegear.com/es/tiburonpreview

Durante la presentación  se harán algunas pruebas para evaluar  la capacidad y calidad de audio y video  de la  solución para eventos en línea – Live Meeting. Contamos con el apoyo de toda la comunidad Delphi.

La presentación será en español y contará con  la presencia de nuestro ilustre Evangelista Chef DavidI.

No  te lo  pierdas  !!!!

Nos vemos en el evento

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posted @ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:05:03 +0000 by Andreano Lanusse

Borland eMail Adressen bald tot…

… alle Embarcadero/CodeGear Mitarbeiter in Deutschland werden ab nächster Woche nicht mehr unter der althergedienten eMail Adresse Vorname.Nachname@Borland.com oder auch VNachname@Borland.com erreichbar sein!

Bitte benutzen Sie nur noch Vorname.Nachname@Codegear.com

Ihr

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posted @ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:52:51 +0000 by Matthias Eissing