This week I was busy with the Delphi XE launch events in Italy, in Rome and Milan. Here are a few tidbits and links to reports and pictures.
The first event was in Rome, with the presence of David I. I had the opportunity to have a long chat with David in the morning, while I guided him in a few nice places of Rome (on the hills of Quirinale and Campidoglio, two of the famous 7 hills Rome was founded on). There is not much of the conversation I can report, but I can tell I'm quite impress with the projects and ideas surrounding the future of Delphi.
The event in Rome has a slight problem: a power outage at the hotel at the very last minutes forced us to move to a different location. But overall it was very nice, as you can see (and read if you can read Italian) in this press report by online magazine programmazione.it. (The side picture is taken from the article).
After David introduction on the status of Delphi today and tomorrow, I covered the Delphi XE IDE (mostly subversion), Daniele Teti some of the new features of the RTL (threading and regular expressions) and tools for Agile development. After the coffee break we presented cloud computing support, Datasnap, and while I showed some JavaScript clients Daniele had one for Android.
Train back home in the night in time to get to back, and midday train to Milan the next day (yesterday). In Milan we made a similar presentation (more timely, and with no hotel problems). Overall I guess we had about 120 attendees, which is an OK number for Italy.
You can read more about the two events also in the Daniele Teti's blog (in English) and see more pictures on Picasa.