This is my short report of the Delphi Tage 2009 that took place last Saturday in Hamburg, Germany. First of all, I really enjoyed this visit to northern Germany, an area I had not been to for over 20 years. I visited Lubeck (because my flight arrived at the local, very-tiny airport), spent two and a half days in Hamburg (very nice city!), and visited Celle (nice but way too touristic, for my taste) on the way to Hannover for my flight back home.
Tourism aside, the event was quite interesting, although I have to say I attended very few sessions as most were in German... and my knowledge of the language is too limited to follow a technical session. The most peculiar element of the event was its unusual location, as the conference was help on board of a ship. Here you can see (in images by Martin Strohal taken from www.delphi-treff.de), the ship, the main hall from the third florr balcony, and myself and other speakers during the final session:
The conference kick off was by David I, who repeated his "Status of Embarcadero and of Delphi" talk, that he gave also in Piacenza two days before, and is still taking around Europe (Russia at first, Italy, Germany, today UK, tomorrow Brussel, if I got it in the right order). Later it was a set of very nice technical sessions on 3 parallel tracks, enough to keep the 150 or so attendees busy. The sessions I saw were of very good quality, in depth, and full of information.
More images from this Flikr set (seems the author is Daniel Wischnewski) include a view form the speakers podium, David I, and a few pictures of of myself,
For my REST clients session, I had a minor problem: There was no wi-fi on the ship. Luckily, I was able to make my cellphone SIM work with a data card I had... and could demo the programs live. I also covered my REST server architecture shortly. Hoep to have more published examples on both areas... for now refer to my Delphi REST clients collection.
By the way, the largest set of pictures is on the Delphi-Praxis site at this link. Overall, it was a very nice event, nice company (even if I skip some of the social events because I arrived late on the Friday and was with my wife later on). Thanks for the user group who organized this event and to CodeGear Germany who invited me. Hope to get back next year!