Workshop in Denmark On September 13th and 14th I had the pleasure to be the speaker at DAPUG workshop in Denmark. Topics included my open source libraries MARS (REST library) and FMXER (FMX visual framework). I’ve been happy to had a chance to share some time with other developers from different countries (including Denmark, Finland […]
Since legal invoicing became mandatory for every company in Italy (2019) many Italian people had to start handling XML files containing invoice data. Many viewers are already available to browse invoice files yet still the activity may become very time-consuming and far from trivial for the regular user. In particular, some people (accountants or managers) […]
I’ve just pushed a few commits to MARS (https://github.com/andrea-magni/MARS) repository and there is a new feature in the library now. Nowadays, for a number of different reasons, you may find yourself trying to keep your endpoint’s URLs as short as possible. It is quite usual to see urls like https://youtu.be/[id], a shorter version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[id]. […]
The day has come: my book is now available on PacktPub (link) and Amazon (link US, link IT) websites. It has been pre-order only till today, since a couple of … years! 😉 It has been a long journey since I signed the contract with the editor to write this book. It was late 2017, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last month (Nov 20th-21st) I’ve joined the Be-Delphi event in the beautiful location of Genval, Belgium. It was my first participation to this event, started in 2011 and at his fifth edition. The program also included a geek night session the evening before the actual conference. Attendance was very good (full house) with a 50+ […]
This year CodeRage, the Embarcadero OnLine conference, has a new format and sessions (brief and focused) are available in series. This week topic is “FireMonkey Multi-Device Design series” hosted by Sarina DuPont, Embarcadero Director of Product Management. You can find all details and registration links at this page. I’ve submitted a session introducing FMXER (20 […]
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 […]