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November 27, 2007

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

Today I'm having three presentations at CodeRage II. The last is still running while I'm blogging...

As mentioned yesterday, today I'm having three presentations at the CodeRage II virtual conference.

I gave (heard the pre-recorded talk and answered to questions, to be more precise) my Dynamic Applications with Packages talk and my Delphi and Vista Talk. There was an average of 200 people logged on InterWise. Not bad. The source code is available at (very small downloads):

The last presentation on Web development with REST techniques in Delphi Win32 is still running while I'm blogging... Source code will be on (this is much bigger because it includes some large DLLs for XML processing):

http://www.marcocantu.com/code/coderage/RestFrame_Code.zip

My plan is to create an open source project around this demo, more about the idea in this blog in a few days. For CodeRage participants there is a special offer to buy a discounted edition (a few dollars off, this week only) of my Delphi 2007 book. Follow the link to my site from the virtual exhibit hall to find the proper link.

At the end of the second Q&A session my mike was left open, and my dog barked loudly, so everyone could hear it... so I posted even a picture of the first dog to speak at a developers conference <g>. Here comes Lillo:

posted by marcocantu @ 8:25PM | 6 Comments [0 Pending]

6 Comments

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

 Hi Marco,
I attended your Dynamic Packages and REST talks (and 
look forward to your DSL talk tomorrow).  Thank you 
for some great talks.  One quick question, a major 
advantage of SOAP web services is the WSDL, which 
allows you to query what functions are available 
from the web service (a web version of RTTI in a 
sense :) ).  From your talk, there doesn't seem to 
be an equivalent with REST.  What is the emerging 
standard for figuring out what is available on a 
site/service?  Is there one?

Thanks,
Tom

Comment by Tom Grubb [http://www.RiverSoftAVG.com] on November 27, 21:07

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

 I started to listen, but the audio was so bad I
couldn't take it anymore. :(

Comment by Mike Dixon [http://www.fishous.com] on November 27, 21:35

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

thank you for your vista talk & source.  it was very
informative & i learned a number of important things!

thank you for the code rage deal on your book; i look
forward to reading it when it arrives!

thank you!
mp

PS:  do a "loud speaking" sound check before getting
serious about recording because when you spoke
louder/closer to the mic, there was some distortion.

Comment by Mike on November 27, 21:43

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

Tom,
  there is currently no WSDL equivalent for REST. You
generally have to read the docs and figure out how the
URL is interpreted. There are talks to create one, though.

Mike (first),
  sorry about that. Source quality was not great, and
Interwise helped making it even worse.

Mike (second),
  nice to know you ordered the book, Camtasia has a
sound check but when I read one of those stock phrases
I'm more more monotone than when giving a talk. Also,
I realized the problems and bought a new mike, which
helped with my later talks.

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on November 27, 23:38

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

Marco

It was good to hear a talk from you (I miss the UK-BUG
conferences!), especially the vista one, as it helped
me clarify some of the points I've discovered making
our apps Vista compatible with Delphi 2007, and you
actually explained what the 'Enable runtime themes'
box does, something which CG seem to have neglected to
do anywhere that I could find (even in the latest docs
update it is still a simple one liner -"Specifies that
the application you are developing is to use runtime
themes as for Windows Vista.").

Anyway, despite the occasional sound issue on your
sessions, it was great and thanks for the source to
look at, and the book deal which I think I'll go get...

Regards
Jeremy

Comment by Jeremy Knowles [http://www.stocktake-solutions.com] on November 28, 12:07

CodeRage II, My Day 2 Talks

Marco,

About Dynamic Packages:

In one of the last real borcon I asked you about how 
to implement an application extension mechanism and 
your answer was basically to do like just like 
deplhi32.exe and make it a COM server exposing the 
menu, toolbar, etc.

My question is which option is better COM or BPL?

One obvious downside of BPL is that you (or third 
part developers) cannot develop add-ons to your 
application in other programming environment other 
then Code Gear’s. I understand the advantage of 
getting hide of the DLL registration stuff but is 
there anything more that you would like to add as 
advantage or disadvantage?

Thank you very much. You presentation was great like 
always. Bravo!

Ivan

Comment by Ivan [http://www.clarklabs.org] on November 28, 16:02

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