Yesterday and the day before, I was been the presenter for the RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo Live Preview in Rome and Milan. There were a lot of interested people. As we all know, the Linux support was really awaited for the last 15 years or so (since the kylix time frame) all this interesting was awaited.

\ Since some days ago, Delphi Redis Client, the official redis client for Delphi, is available through GetIt. You can get the library with just a click, now there aren’t reasons to be afraid by Redis utilization :-) More info and the (very simple) installation instruction at the dedicated page.

As you probably know, monday and tuesday we held 2 ITDevCon Community Workshop. On monday we had “Tutto su DelphiMVCFramework” (All about DelphiMVCFramework) a very intensive workshop which introduce al the major features about DelphiMVCFraemework: DelphiMVCFramework architecture Understanting Routing Controllers Routes and parameters Renders Action filters Accessing data Be amazed by the Mapper’s features Sessions JSON Web Token support (JWT) Middleware The built-in Authentication & Authorization framework Serving static files Server Side Views (a.

Just a quick note to leave documentation for other Delphi and C++Builder developers around here. After installing the RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Update 2 my RAD Studio installation was broken. The installation reach the end but when I start RAD Studio I get a lot of messages of “Package raise exception XXX do you want to load the next time?

In about 2 weeks ITDevCon 2016 will start! The agenda is final since one week already, with most of the speeches already defined months ago. You can check the agenda here: http://www.itdevcon.it/en/agenda We have 15 speakers from all over the world, from Brazil to Slovenia, from Germany to Italy; lot of contents, lot of topics.

Delphi Cookbook 2nd Edition was published by PacktPub at the end of June 2016. I’m very happy to see that in just 30 days, it has become a bestseller in its category. So far, the book has sold 13 copies each day, which is a good figure for a tech book (it should increase in the following months because the book will be available in more stores).

Starting from today my Delphi Cookbook 2nd edition is available to buy. The first edition got a lot of interest and appreciation comments. Delphi Cookbook is a best sellers for PacktPub (my editor) in its category, the editor decided to ask me a 2nd edition. So here it is!

[UPDATE: ]{style=“color: #ff0000;”} [ITDevCon2016 will be held next Oct 6th, 7th in Rome (Italy). ]{style=“color: #ff0000;”} [The post has been updated as well.]{style=“color: #ff0000;”} Dear potential ITDevCon speaker, As every year (but 2015), I’m building the agenda for next ITDevCon that will be held next October 6th, 7th in Rome (Italy), in a new location, the bit Time group headquarter!

This week, in one of the most important government palaces in Italy (I cannot say which one), I did a consultancy about mobile development. The internal dev team is currently using Xamarin and they have a blocking problem with it. In the team there is a friend of mine which called me some days ago to know if I know how to solve their problem using Delphi.

On Mar,22nd 2016 I’ll talk about refactoring during a programmed skill sprint with the title: Refactoring legacy code to design patterns. After a short theoretical introduction, there will be a live demo showing the power of refactoring and the power of the refactoring engine built in into the RAD Studio IDE.