Register for the XE3 World Tour Webinar
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] For those who can’t make it to an actual World Tour venue, the registration form is now up for 3 (three) sessions of a webinar alternative on September 10th.
“XE3” is Official, “New” HTML Builder but “No iOS Support” .. ?
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with postings referencing the official RAD Studio World Tour announcement starting to hit the wires, and it contains something of potential interest. I have also seen claims starting to appear that XE3 will not have any iOS support at all.
What’s New in XE3 …
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Somebody appears to have got their hands on a draft version of a “What’s New” document for Delphi and C++ Builder XE3. Get it while it’s hot – it’s likely to get taken down with extreme prejudice quite soon.
The Problem with Embarcadero
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] I recently got into an email exchange with David Intersimone of Embarcadero, during which a number of questions came up. The answers I gave to those questions I think are worth sharing, as they also reflect where I think Embarcadero are going, and have been going, wrong.
No Metro in Windows 8 !!
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] That’s right. When Windows 8 ships there will be NO METRO in the box!
Thinking Creatively with QueryInterface()
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] I soon hope to be releasing “Smoketest”, a testing framework that I have developed over the past few years. It has actually been in production use for most of that time (albeit by my own good self) but also continues to develop and evolve. On the occasions when I have mentioned it, people have asked me to publish it, but I have been reluctant to do so up to now for a number of reasons, not least that it needs a bit of polishing to make it suitable for public scrutiny.
RAD Studio (XE3 Launch?) Event Announced in NZ
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Just a few moments ago I received an invitation to register for what I presume to be the launch event of RAD Studio XE3. 28th August is the date for your diary!
FireMonkey to Support Native Controls
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] In the comments to my previous post, David Intersimone mentioned that Embarcadero are working on enabling support for platform native UI controls within FireMonkey!
A Pain In The Butt
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] This post is one of those classic double-entendres for which us Brits are (in)famous, involving as it does both an actual Pain In The Butt and a euphemistic one.
CFStringRef and TCFString(s)
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] In the comments on yesterdays initial post in a series following the experiences of porting an Objective-C sample to XE2, a number of people have asked why I didn’t use the TCFString record type in System.Mac.CFUtils to get the CFStringRef references that I required. The reason is embarrassingly simple.