Upcoming Events

The fundamental secrets of good UI design

Presenter(s): Ian Barker, Embarcadero Developer Advocate

Everyone knows a badly-designed user interface when they see one. They're ugly, hard to use, and they can make a good app feel bad. Join Developer Advocate Ian Barker as he takes us through the principles of good UI design in a session packed full of useful tips and tricks.

How to work with any database and do it properly

Presenter(s): Ian Barker, Embarcadero Developer Advocate

Sooner or later you will need to access data, either in a database or in the cloud. Join Developer Advocate Ian Barker in this BUMPER session where he takes us through connecting to the most popular databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQL Lite, Interbase, XData, RAD Server, and that's not all!

Dev Lounge Season 4 - Episode 1 (Spanish)

Join us for the Fourth Season of our Embarcadero Dev Lounge, where we will have a pleasant conversation with Embarcadero experts, MVPs, clients and other guests. Every month a new episode covering the main news from the world of Embarcadero, interviews, success stories and, of course, code!| In this episode we will talk about what's new in version 12.1 of RAD Studio, C++ Builder and Delphi.

A Tuesday book club!

Presenter(s): Ian Barker, Embarcadero Developer Advocate

Join Developer Advocate Ian Barker for a special book club where we go through the hundreds of books available for RAD Studio. Ian will be talking to some of the authors of recent books as well as showing you where you can go to get free educational and learning resources for software developers.

Grey Matter & Embarcadero Developer Conference London 2024

Grey Matter and Embarcadero are heading back to the Kia Oval in London for a free two-track event filled with insightful sessions covering a wide range of topics for Delphi and C++ developers. Marco Cantu, Stephen Ball and Antonio Zapater are among the speakers.

Berliner Delphi Stammtisch

The Berlin Delphi Stammtisch meets regularly every second Thursday of the month at 18:00. Just come along.

TDD with Delphi - May 2024

Presenter(s): AlfaSoft Team

This 2-day training offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to evolutionary design, clean code and unit testing. TDD for Delphi explores the foundations of TDD, unit testing, automated refactoring and improving the design of legacy code with the help of various patterns, strategies, tools and techniques using Delphi. Price: 700 Euro (+VAT)

Saving and 'remembering' settings and options the right way

Presenter(s): Ian Barker, Embarcadero Developer Advocate

Each operating system has its own best practices when it comes to storing app settings or options and then restoring them the next time the app runs. Join us as Developer Advocate Ian Barker shows us how and where to properly and safely store and restore settings and options on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android - even the web! If you thought Registry or INI files were the only way, think again.

Database Development with FireDAC - May 2024

Presenter(s): AlfaSoft Team

This one-day training course will introduce you to the FireDAC framework for connecting to and working with various databases with Delphi. The FireDAC framework is available in VCL applications as well as Firemonkey applications. Price 390 Euro (+VAT)

Make stuff! We build a sword-fighting robot, our own grocery store checkout, and a LoRA radio

Presenter(s): Ian Barker, Embarcadero Developer Advocate

Part of the fun of coding is being able to make machines and robots DO things. Follow along as Developer Advocate Ian Barker takes us through building our own sword-fighting robot. In this session, Ian also creates his own grocery store checkout and tops off this cool maker-faire-style episode by building and programming a LoRA radio to join the Meshtastic network craziness.