To get here, was a long journey and lot of stuff happened. I remember in 1995 when I was developing an ERP with Paradox for Windows and a friend of my gave a CD and he said “Learn this product, it will change the software development world”, and I’m glad I did what he asked for :).

The following links tells a little bit about Delphi history.

• Borland History: Will The Real Frank Borland Please Stand Up?
• Memorabilia: The Adventures of TurboMan
• Borland History: Why the name “Delphi?”
• Historical Document: Delphi Product Definition 3rd Draft – May 13, 1993
• Historical Document: Visual Component Library First Draft – May 24, 1993
• Historical Documents: Delphi 1 launch demos source code, launch script, and marketing video
• Delphi 2 – Battle of the Visual Masters
• Delphi 2 – Building Web enabled apps with Delphi 2.0
• Delphi 2 – A Comparison of Client/Server Development Tools; PowerBuilder vs. Delphi
• Discovering Delphi – Why choose Delphi 2 over Visual Basic 4/5?
• ebook – Secrets of Delphi 2 – Exposing Undocumented Features of Delphi – Download here
• ebook – Peter Norton’s Guide to Delphi 2 [1996] – Download here
• Borland Delphi 7 VCL Object Hierarchy/Poster/Chart – download here

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Thank you everyone who attended our events around the world, developers are very excited and impressed with all of the new features in this release, like: 64-bit, VCL Styles, DataSnap Connectors, Web apps optimized for mobile devices with RadPHP, LiveBinding, FireMonkey and the ability do develop desktop applications for Windows, Mac and iOS, etc.

View My stops during Rad Studio XE2 World Tour in a larger map

My schedule for this weekend:

• Tuesday (13/Sep) – Bogota, Colombia – registration and more info here
• Thursday (15/Sep) – Denver, USA – registration and more info here

There are more 42 stops for the RAD Studio XE2 World Tour, check the list of cities/countries and register today for the city near you.

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This release represents a new era for Delphi and C++Builder developers, there are lot of new stuffs on this release and we will show all of them during the RAD Studio XE Tour, in the mean time I would like to highlight some of them:

[ilink style=”tick”]New Delphi for 64-bit Windows and full VCL/RTL support[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]Full monitoring and controlling of DataSnap connections[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]LiveBinding, the new mechanism for binding any type of data[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]dbExpress ODBC driver[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]Cloud API support for Amazon S3[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]VCL Styles to modernize the look and feel of VCL applications[/ilink]
[ilink style=”tick”]FireMonkey the new platform for NATIVE software development[/ilink]

FireMonkey is a big step forward, it opens a whole new market for Delphi and C++Builder developers, allowing to offer their current applications on Mac, develop new products and at the end deploy their applications through App Store reaching millions of end users. The power of FireMonkey will distinguish your applications from any other.

Much more to come, stay tuned to this blog, other Embarcadero blogs and our Embarcadero website throughout this month for more information.

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Delphi Rocks here in Brazil!!!

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Hello Delphi Community,

This week I’m in Denver and Salt Lake City to present the new RAD Studio XE, will be great to meet the community around both areas, you are welcome!!!

• Denver, CO – today (September 21st – 5:00am – 7:00pm ) – registration here
• Salt Lake City, UT (September 22nd – 6:00pm – 8:00pm ) – registration here

 As well the RAD Studio XE Tour will happen in other US cities this week.

Here some of the topics we are presenting during the RAD Studio XE Tour:

• What’s new in Delphi/C++Builder IDE, RTL and VCL
• The new RadPHP IDE that enable developers to create Facebook and Web 2.0 applications
• Performance Profile, advanced log and build automation
• iPhone/iPad and cross-platform .NET development with Delphi Prism XE
• The new features in DataSnap
• Cloud Computing support
• Agile development with RAD Studio
• And more…

Hope to see you there.

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This event was the first after our traditional old BorCon (Borland Conference).Because of the acquisition last year and many other things going on, we weren’t able to put on a big show like BorCon — but this year was different. Delphi Conferences started in many different countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica), and a lot of people showed up. The event in Brazil was no different, as it included 26 presentations, 4 simultaneous tracks and over 500 Delphi developers in attendance. Everybody was really excited about Delphi 2010.

DavidI and I (Andreano Lanusse) just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to the Brazilian community for your support, passion, and loyalty. You have continued to make Delphi stronger and stronger over the years.

All of the slides and samples are available in CodeCentral, of course in portuguese :), but google is your friend.

Here some pictures of the event of the year 2009 – Delphi Conference Brazil:

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I hear so many words like “Delphi 2010 is great!!!”, “I’m definitely moving to Delphi 2010”, “DataSnap is great”, “Touch and Gesture Rocks”, and also the Firebird users are VERY HAPPY!!!!

Those words sound like music, the entire team is grateful.

Here some pictures of the event in Mexico D.F.

No distraction, everybody watching the demos.

Coffe-break, everybody hungry and running, only 10 minutes break, too much features to present.

Members of the DelphiAccess.com, the Spanish Delphi forum.
I’m so proud of this group, they have great ideas and are helping the community every day.

Well, now is time to back to US and prepare the online presentation for the Spanish countries in Latin America, also prepare the Delphi 2010 training for Brazil, yep September 15th the Brazilian Delphi community will have a full day training in Delphi 2010, the event is FREE!!!

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Also, I had a very special guest at the event, Thom Gerdes member of the Delphi R&D and responsible for the Direct2D implementation and also worked on the Touch and Gesture development. Thom’s presentation was excellent and the audience was fascinated with the power of touch and gesture on Delphi and C++Builder.

During 4 hours we present all of the new features and every was very excited.

Now I’m in D.F. the capital of Mexico for the tomorrow’s event, we are looking forward many developers at the event.

Thank you for all developers in Guadalajara. was great to talk with all of you face to face..

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September 1st we we land in Guadalajara and September 3rd in Mexico D.F. Also I’m planning to meet the owner of DelphiAccess community, of course we will talk abou Delphi.

For more information click here

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