Bonus Pack! Buy Delphi XE3 now and be ready for CodeRage 7!

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Get Delphi XE3 now and be ready for CodeRage 7!

RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap Published

For those of you chomping at the bit for information about our mobile plans for RAD Studio - here is the RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap as published today!

Enjoy!

Embarcadero Affiliate Program - Make Money on Referrals!

Yes, you read that correctly. If you sign up as an Embarcadero Affiliate, use our banners and make sales happen, you will earn money!

What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

Enjoy!

RAD Studio XE3: Laguna Hills, CA and Santa Monica, CA

If you're anywhere near Laguna Hills, CA or Santa Monica, CA, please consider coming to the RAD Studio XE3 Launch events!

The Laguna Hills event is 7pm-9pm on September 4th, and the Santa Monica event is 7pm-9pm on September 6th.

Please pre-register here for Orange County (Laguna Hills)

Please pre-register here for Los Angeles (Santa Monica)

See you there! :)

The Embarcadero MVP Program

You may have heard of this program under the working name of "Embarcadero Evangelist Program". The official name will be "The Embarcadero MVP Program". It's a program tailored to recognizing our awesome advocates in our great community.

An official landing page with links to everyone's pages etc, as well as official logos, and other materials are in the works, but I wanted to take this opportunity to preview the program if you will, just like we're starting off the XE3 World Tour as preview events.

It brings me great pleasure to announce this program, and to give you the list of the current MVPs. Some of them have already blogged and/or tweeted. More people are in the queue for sure, and I'm hereby asking anyone that wants to, to send me name and contact information for anyone that you believe should be an MVP. An MVP is someone who is a well known advocate in the community, and does great stuff for everyone's benefit.

Without further ado, here is the current list of MVPs ordered by country:

AUSTRALIA:

Glenn Stephens
Lachlan Gemmell

BELGIUM:

Filip Lagrou

BRAZIL:

Adriano Santos
Alan Glei
Caique Rodrigues
Carlos Agnes
Daniel Wildt
Guinther Pauli
Luciano Pimenta
Marcelo Nogueira
Marcelo Varela
Marcos Antonio Moreira
Marcos Gomes
Newton Michel de Oliveira
Pedro Bento
Ricardo Boaro
Rodrigo Carreiro
Samuel David
Victory Fernandes

CZECH REPUBLIC:

Radek Cervinka

DENMARK:

Jens Fudge

FRANCE:

Didier Cabale
Felix Colibri

GERMANY:

Daniel Magin
Daniel Wolf
Uwe Raabe

GUATEMALA:

Juan Castillo

ITALY:

Marco Cantu

MEXICO:

Eliseo Gonzalez
Marco Santin

NETHERLANDS:

Bob Swart
Danny Wind

NEW ZEALAND:

Alister Christie

PERU:

Jose Castillo

RUSSIA:

Alexander Alexeev
Alexander Bozhko
Andrey Terekhov
Vladislav Bajenov

SLOVENIA:

Primoz Gabrijelcic

SPAIN:

Germán Estévez Ruiz
Luis Alfonso Rey
Salvador Jover

SWEDEN:

Magnus Flysjö

UNITED KINGDOM:

Brian Long

UNITED STATES:

Alan Fletcher
Cary Jensen
Nick Hodges
Ray Konopka
Robert Love
Olaf Monien

VENEZUELA:

Luis Felipe González Torres

Thanks again to all these great folks, and everyone else for their support. As I said, please remember, this is not an exhaustive list by any means, but I think it's a great start for the program. More names will be added over time, and assets to recognize these great folks will be forthcoming.

Enjoy!

XE3 and Beyond

JT just blogged "XE3 and beyond" where he goes into detail about our upcoming Mobile Tool Chain.

A must read, folks!

Enjoy!

RAD Studio XE3 World Tour - Get a look under the surface

Come see what’s new in RAD Studio XE3 at a free World Tour event near you!

Exciting new versions are coming soon. Be among the first to see what's new in RAD Studio XE3 – including Delphi, C++Builder, Prism, InterBase and the new HTML5 Builder at one of these live launch tour events.

Get ready to develop apps for Windows 8. Learn how to give your existing VCL and FireMonkey apps a new Windows 8 look and functionality. See what's new in FM2, the next generation FireMonkey application platform. And get a first look at the newest member of the RAD Studio family – HTML5 Builder!

Yours truly will be in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Bangalore and Mumbai as follows:

Sydney - August 22, 2012 at 8:30am-12:30pm
Melbourne - August 23, 2012 at 8:30am-12:30pm
Brisbane - August 24, 2012 at 8:30am-12:30pm
Bangalore - August 27, 2012 at 4:00pm-9:00pm
Mumbai - August 29, 2012 at 4:00pm-9:00pm

See you soon!

Free German eBook "Delphi Starter"

Updated for XE2. Available here.

Enjoy!

MathViz for Mac OSX is in the AppStore!

First FireMonkey app in the Mac OSX AppStore.

MathViz for Mac

Enjoy!

FireMonkey eBook coming!

Graeme Chandler has spilled some beans! He's coming out with a FireMonkey eBook at the end of August according to this comment on my blog!

World Class Backgammon! XG Gammon!

Written in none other than Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey for iOS for iPhone/iPad. iTunes link.



Enjoy!

Book: Delphi XE2 Foundations by Chris Rolliston

I've been super busy lately, and just caught up on some newsgroup postings, and found this gem!

Delphi XE2 Foundations

If I were you, I'd buy this book purely based on the 5-star ratings!

Enjoy!

Webinar: VCL to FireMonkey migration

Register for my VCL to FireMonkey migration webinar and get a free copy of Mida Converter!

The webinar takes place three different times on July 25th. See above link for details.

Enjoy!

Replay for "Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2" is up

The replay

In other news, the app update I submitted during this webinar (Anders' Analog Clock) was approved last night and is available in the AppStore now.

Enjoy!

Webinar: Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2

Join me for my webinar "Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2" on Wednesday June 6th at 6am, 11am and 5pm PDT.

PS: MathViz 1.1 for iOS is now free in the AppStore. Enjoy!

Reflection for Mac

Just bought this brilliant piece of software - http://www.reflectionapp.com/

Now I can demo iPhone/iPad apps on the Mac without cables.

It works over AirPlay with no software needed on the iPhone/iPad.

Works with iPhone 4S and iPad 2+.

I've already made sure that Camtasia can screen record the iPad screen on the Mac as well. Looking forward to using this in upcoming webinars!

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HotFix 1 is live!

MSI Installer for HotFix 1

ISO for HotFix 1

This hotfix address a lot of things, including the arm7 issue for iOS.

Enjoy!

MathViz for iOS updated and free for two days!

MathViz 1.1 update has been approved. I added gesture support and a reset button.



Pardon me while I play around and get a feel for how pricing campaigns work... ;)

MathViz 1.1 is free for two days. I believe I exhausted the potential for new customers (without doing any marketing) so the party right now is up to just a couple of pizzas (if I do Papa Murphy's Take'n'Bake)... ;)

Please feel free to download MathViz in the next couple of days while it's free. Please consider reviewing it as well.

BTW, MathViz will be permanently free at some point, and the source code will be freed at some point as well.

Thanks for playing! Enjoy!

Playing sound on iOS? Anyone have a working Delphi XE2 FireMonkey sample?

I wish I had time for everything... I've tried this one a couple of times, but have run into issues with parsing framework this and that... ;)

So, here it is... Anyone got a simple example that plays a single sound effect and/or plays a background track?

From files that you deploy with the app (resources).

Background track from existing music library on device would be a sweet bonus.

I'll make sure you get credit if I use it in upcoming blogs, webinars, etc.

Thanks!