In 2011, Embarcadero announced that Delphi (Rad Studio) sales had increased 15% each year for the three consecutive years since they acquired CodeGear.
Embarcadero’s Delphi Reaps Three Consecutive Years of Double Digit Growth since Acquisition from Borland
The following year, they announced an additional 54% growth over the previous year:
Embarcadero Technologies Grows Delphi and C++ by 54% in 2011
Yesterday Embarcadero announced that sales to date represent a 34% increase over 2012:
Demand for iOS Support Drives Year-Over-Year Growth in Sales for RAD Studio Development Tools
It's almost enough to make one question the whole "Delphi is dying!" meme.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
RAD Studio XE4 World Tour - Canadian Dates
In case you've missed it, Embarcadero's Rad Studio XE4's launch tour will be in Montreal and Toronto on June 5th and 6th.
Montreal, QC
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 @ 6:00-8:00PM
Hôtel Europa
Register for Montreal
Toronto, ON
Thursday, June 6, 2013 @ 6:00-8:00PM
Northern District Library
Register for Toronto
Welcome to this RAD Studio event focusing on iOS development.
RAD Studio is the multi-device, true native app development platform for everyone who needs to develop apps for desktops, tablets and smartphones, and get them to market fast. You will see how you can manage one codebase, one team, and one schedule without sacrificing performance. True native apps give you faster applications with more control, tighter security and a better user experience.
This presentation is organized by Embarcadero and will focus on:
Montreal, QC
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 @ 6:00-8:00PM
Hôtel Europa
Register for Montreal
Toronto, ON
Thursday, June 6, 2013 @ 6:00-8:00PM
Northern District Library
Register for Toronto
Welcome to this RAD Studio event focusing on iOS development.
RAD Studio is the multi-device, true native app development platform for everyone who needs to develop apps for desktops, tablets and smartphones, and get them to market fast. You will see how you can manage one codebase, one team, and one schedule without sacrificing performance. True native apps give you faster applications with more control, tighter security and a better user experience.
This presentation is organized by Embarcadero and will focus on:
- Multi-device, true native application development from a single codebase for iOS, Windows and Mac.
- Reduce complexity and cost with just one of everything for your app development: one dev team, one codebase, one budget, one schedule.
- Be fast to market with extendable and reusable visual component building blocks for faster and highly maintainable development.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Delphi XE2 - A few of my favourite things...
If you follow Delphi at all, then you will have noticed lots of recent activity around the upcoming release of Delphi (Rad Studio) XE2. And with big ticket items like native 64 bit, Mac and iOS support, FireMonkey, VCL themes, data binding (VCL and FireMonkey), etc, there is a lot to be excited about. I find myself looking for opportunities to use some of these new features.
However, and with Embarcadero's permission, I'd like to point out a couple of features that don't necessarily get as much press, but are immediately useful to me.
ODBC support in dbExpress
I've been a fan of dbExpress since it was introduced, but the biggest drawback has always been that you need a driver for the specific database you want to use. Otherwise, you're out of luck. XE2 (finally) helps fill in the gaps by adding ODBC support for dbExpress.
HTTPS in stand alone DataSnap servers
DataSnap (formerly Midas) has been around since Delphi 3, but (IMHO) really became useful when it was overhauled in Delphi 2009 and later with features such as being decoupled from COM, adding filters for encryption and compression, REST support, etc. If pressed, you could argue that DataSnap supported SSL, but this was only when used through IIS, which is a bit of a cop out (again, IMHO). In XE2, you can build stand alone DataSnap servers that support HTTPS.
If you want to learn more, Embarcadero is currently on a World Tour (initially 70 stops in 30 countries, and more stops are being added), Delphi Live starts September 12th and CodeRage 6 starts October 17.
The Toronto stop for the World Tour is Wednesday, August 31 at the North York Regional Library. Note that it starts at 6:00 PM instead of 7:00 PM, like the user group meetings. If you will be attending, please register online so they can plan accordingly.
However, and with Embarcadero's permission, I'd like to point out a couple of features that don't necessarily get as much press, but are immediately useful to me.
ODBC support in dbExpress
I've been a fan of dbExpress since it was introduced, but the biggest drawback has always been that you need a driver for the specific database you want to use. Otherwise, you're out of luck. XE2 (finally) helps fill in the gaps by adding ODBC support for dbExpress.
HTTPS in stand alone DataSnap servers
DataSnap (formerly Midas) has been around since Delphi 3, but (IMHO) really became useful when it was overhauled in Delphi 2009 and later with features such as being decoupled from COM, adding filters for encryption and compression, REST support, etc. If pressed, you could argue that DataSnap supported SSL, but this was only when used through IIS, which is a bit of a cop out (again, IMHO). In XE2, you can build stand alone DataSnap servers that support HTTPS.
If you want to learn more, Embarcadero is currently on a World Tour (initially 70 stops in 30 countries, and more stops are being added), Delphi Live starts September 12th and CodeRage 6 starts October 17.
The Toronto stop for the World Tour is Wednesday, August 31 at the North York Regional Library. Note that it starts at 6:00 PM instead of 7:00 PM, like the user group meetings. If you will be attending, please register online so they can plan accordingly.
Monday, September 21, 2009
RAD Studio 2010 in Toronto Wednesday, Sept 23rd
TDUG: The Delphi 2010 Tour with Anders Ohlsson is coming to Toronto Wed.Sep. 23.
All attendees will be entered in a drawing for a free copy of RAD Studio 2010 Professional.*
Learn from the experts, hear from your peers and talk to our
evangelists in person. See how Delphi 2010 and RAD Studio 2010 can
take you to a new level of productivity with touch/gesture
application development, Firebird support, RTTI in the Delphi language, Windows 7 support and much more.
* Must attend the event, and be present to win.
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 23
7:00 to 10:PM
Location: Northern District Library
40 Orchard View Blvd.
NOTE THE CHANGE IN VENUE FROM OUR USUAL LOCATION
Toronto, ON, M4R 1B9
416-393-7610
Room 224BC
Directions: Closest major intersection: Yonge St. and Eglinton
and Eglinton Ave. Located 1 block north of
Eglinton Ave. on west side of Yonge St.
Public Transit: Eglinton subway station, walk 1 block north on
on Yonge Yonge St.
Parking: Paid - Limited parking in metered spaces under
library building,
- Side street parking,
- Several paid parking lots nearby.
Admission Free
Registration: http://update.codegear.com/forms/AMCA0909RAD2010TourToronto
All attendees will be entered in a drawing for a free copy of RAD Studio 2010 Professional.*
Learn from the experts, hear from your peers and talk to our
evangelists in person. See how Delphi 2010 and RAD Studio 2010 can
take you to a new level of productivity with touch/gesture
application development, Firebird support, RTTI in the Delphi language, Windows 7 support and much more.
* Must attend the event, and be present to win.
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 23
7:00 to 10:PM
Location: Northern District Library
40 Orchard View Blvd.
NOTE THE CHANGE IN VENUE FROM OUR USUAL LOCATION
Toronto, ON, M4R 1B9
416-393-7610
Room 224BC
Directions: Closest major intersection: Yonge St. and Eglinton
and Eglinton Ave. Located 1 block north of
Eglinton Ave. on west side of Yonge St.
Public Transit: Eglinton subway station, walk 1 block north on
on Yonge Yonge St.
Parking: Paid - Limited parking in metered spaces under
library building,
- Side street parking,
- Several paid parking lots nearby.
Admission Free
Registration: http://update.codegear.com/
Friday, August 29, 2008
Delphi 2009 - Generics.Collections
CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).
By now, you've probably heard that Delphi 2009 will have generics for Win32. The first thing I always think of is type safe collections that don't require casting. Someone asked what has been added to the RTL to take advantage of the feature. In this first release, the following were added to the RTL in Generics.Collections.pas.
TList
TQueue
TStack
TDictionary
Descendants that optionally manage ownership of objects in the list:
TObjectList
TObjectQueue
TObjectStack
TObjectDictionary
Nick Hodges will be exploring TList in more detail in his "Delphi Language Features" launch webinar on September 3rd.
For And for good measure, Allen Bauer and Barry Kelly have been blogging about less stereotypical uses for generics. Stay tuned for more.
Multicast events using generics
Multicast Events - the cleanup
Tiburon: fun with generics and anonymous methods
By now, you've probably heard that Delphi 2009 will have generics for Win32. The first thing I always think of is type safe collections that don't require casting. Someone asked what has been added to the RTL to take advantage of the feature. In this first release, the following were added to the RTL in Generics.Collections.pas.
TList
TQueue
TStack
TDictionary
Descendants that optionally manage ownership of objects in the list:
TObjectList
TObjectQueue
TObjectStack
TObjectDictionary
Nick Hodges will be exploring TList
For And for good measure, Allen Bauer and Barry Kelly have been blogging about less stereotypical uses for generics. Stay tuned for more.
Multicast events using generics
Multicast Events - the cleanup
Tiburon: fun with generics and anonymous methods
Delphi 2009 - PasswordChar
CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).
If you've seen some of the Delphi 2009 demos, you might wonder why they're showing off PasswordChar in TEdit. After all, the feature has been available since Delphi 1.
You'll miss it if you aren't looking closely, but what they're showing is a minor fix in Delphi's Windows theme support. If the password character is an asterisk (*), Delphi 2009 now correctly displays black circles. As Nick Hodges pointed out, it's a small improvement, but certainly one more step in the right direction.
If you've seen some of the Delphi 2009 demos, you might wonder why they're showing off PasswordChar in TEdit. After all, the feature has been available since Delphi 1.
You'll miss it if you aren't looking closely, but what they're showing is a minor fix in Delphi's Windows theme support. If the password character is an asterisk (*), Delphi 2009 now correctly displays black circles. As Nick Hodges pointed out, it's a small improvement, but certainly one more step in the right direction.
Delphi 2009 - TextHint in TComboBox
CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).
Delphi 2009 adds TextHint support to edit controls, a nice feature that lets you show a grayed out text watermark. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Delphi 2009 extends this support to TComboBox on XP, normally only supported on Vista. Under the covers, they send the Windows message CB_SETCUEBANNER to the ComboBox on Vista and EM_SETCUEBANNER to the ComboBox's edit control on XP.
I've seen a few of these "minor" tweaks in this release, which suggests that CodeGear is spending some time on cleanup and improvement of smaller details and not just big ticket features.
Delphi 2009 adds TextHint support to edit controls, a nice feature that lets you show a grayed out text watermark. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Delphi 2009 extends this support to TComboBox on XP, normally only supported on Vista. Under the covers, they send the Windows message CB_SETCUEBANNER to the ComboBox on Vista and EM_SETCUEBANNER to the ComboBox's edit control on XP.
I've seen a few of these "minor" tweaks in this release, which suggests that CodeGear is spending some time on cleanup and improvement of smaller details and not just big ticket features.
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