A friend recently started two open source projects I consider very interesting for the Delphi community. IconFontsImageList and SVGIconImageList projects, by Carlo Barazzetta (Ethea), are available on GitHub.com. They enable Delphi developers to make a huge step into modernization of their applications (VCL, even when using older Delphi versions and FMX) or their UI, including […]
Prossimo evento L’iniziativa Delphi Live – Italia, una serie di eventi online ma dal vivo e non pre-registrati, è giunta al suo dodicesimo appuntamento, in programma per Mercoledì 27 Maggio 2020, ore 15:00. Lo speaker di turno sarà Antonello Carlomagno che presenterà una sessione su un prodotto che ha raggiunto una buona popolarità negli ultimi […]
Introduction TLDR: I wanted to make something useful at home with some IoT and electronic stuffs 😉 I am Italian and I live in Lombardy region. Me and my family have been in lockdown for several weeks because of the COVID-19 emergency. Even if the restrictions are now more loose and many activities are slowly […]
Italian version here Online (yet live) events During the Coronavirus isolation restrictions, together with Antonello Carlomagno and Carlo Barazzetta, I started an online initiative (live, not recorded videos) to keep the Italian Delphi community in touch and have some fun together. We are talking about a serie of live online events where a presenter (or […]
English version here Eventi live online In questi tempi difficili per via dell’emergenza Coronavirus, insieme ad Antonello Carlomagno e Carlo Barazzetta, ho pensato di avviare un’iniziativa online (ma dal vivo e non registrata) per tenere in contatto la comunità Delphi italiana durante l’isolamento imposto alla popolazione. Sostanzialmente si tratta di eventi live online dove un […]
I’ve been speaking at EKON23 in Düsseldorf, this week. It is one of the most attended and most interesting conference about Delphi, at world level. It has been a pleasure to meet a nice number (>100) of developers and my sessions had a good feedback so I am happy about how it went. My sessions […]
My blog has been a bit silent recently as I am busy with many projects within my customers in Italy. However in the next couple of months I’ll be speaking at three different events around the Europe: Germany, Italy and Poland. Here you can find some links and a short description of the topics I’ll […]
Starting with Android 7.1 (API Level 25, supported out of the box by Delphi 10.3 Rio version) there is a new functionality supported by the OS (specifically by the OS app launcher and most of alternative launchers as well): app shortcuts. You can find all details about this Android capability at this location of the […]
Today, during my session at ITDevCon 9, I have been hit by the typical “demo effect” and my example about TListView customization and LiveBinding’s CustomFormat functionality refused to work. Obviously after a good coffee (we are in Italy, right?) and 5 minutes to rebuild my example from scratch, everything works. Who knows what happened. So […]
The Delphi Community Edition Bootcamp on EmbarcaderoAcademy.com started on September 3rd and will last 8 weeks. It is a great initiative with many outstanding authors giving free lessons over the Delphi product to celebrate the new Community Edition. The first week, focused on the language, was given by the best possible author: Marco Cantù, Embarcadero […]