Marco Tech Blog

October, 2012

Blog posts archive for the given month, sorted by date. See the link for entire blog archive above.


Official Embarcadero MVP List

Embarcadero has officially posted the list of its MVP "Most Values Professionals" on a new MVP page of their web site. -- Read blog post.

Delphi XE3: Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types

One of the few new language features in Delphi XE3 is the ability to add "methods" to native language types. But this is not a small change for the language! -- Read blog post.

Delphi Razor Extensions

Last week I committed a few extensions to Delphi Razor, the open source server side HTML scripting engine tied to Delphi and part of my overall Delphi Relax framework. -- Read blog post.

Me and Windows 8 (and Start8)

After a month of using Windows 8 on my primary computer, here are a few considerations. In summary, great desktop, still puzzled by Metro. Which is why I like Start8. -- Read blog post.

Small Hidden New Features in Delphi XE3 RTL

I've done some research for a Delphi XE3 workshop I'm holding at my office tomorrow (in Italian). Beside the relevant new feature, I found some minor but interesting ones. -- Read blog post.

Conferences: ITDevCon 2012

The next week will see me speaking at a Delphi conference in Italy, but next months I'll be at other Delphi conferences (CodeRage on the Web and BE-Delphi in Belgium) I'll blog about ASAP. -- Read blog post.

Conferences: CodeRage 7

Next month will see the 7th edition of the online conference organized by Embarcadero, which this year doubles with a Delphi specific event and a C++ specific one. -- Read blog post.

Conferences: Be-Delphi Developer Event

I've be invited to speak at the second Delphi Developer Event organized by Be-Delphi on November 22nd in Edegem near Antwerp (Belgium). -- Read blog post.

ITDevCon 2012 Pictures

Here is a very short summary (mostly through pictures) of the ITDevCon conference last week in Verona, Italy. -- Read blog post.