Workshop with Ian Barker at Hotel Hesselet, April 29 - 30, 2025

Ian Barker:

Delphi 12 - "The Next Generation"

April 29 and 30, 2025
Hotel Hesselet, Christianslundsvej 119, 5800 Nyborg

About Ian Barker

Ian is the Chief Developer Advocate at Embarcadero. With this role he is used to traveling the world for seminars, conferences and now even for Workshops in Denmark.

Ian produces tons of Webinars for Embarcadero and has a strong passion for not only creating great software but also for sharing his knowledge. Ian has never before attended the DAPUG workshop, but is looking very much forward to it.

Being Embarcadero staff he has promised to answer as many questions he can about the company and about the product. Please note that you can choose to ask the questions you have using the registration form, making it possible for Ian to be prepared for your questions.

When you check the agenda you will notice that this workshop will cover a wider scope of topics than you will normally see, with a strong focus on how to leverage your skills and integrate several technologies in your development using your existing skills within Delphi programming.

We hope to see you at the workshop.

You find the registration form here.

Please note that you must register on Sunday March 16, 2025 at latest.

If you want to participate in the workshop, but did not register in time, please send an email including contact info to dapug@veco.dk. There is a good chance that we can find a solution.

Workshop participation requires that you or your company is a paying member of DAPUG. The annual membership fee of DKK 800 covers all registrants for that company. If you are not representing a company you will need to have a personal membership of DAPUG, which is also an annual fee of DKK 800

Workshop registration fee is DKK 6000 per participant. This includes both workshop days, including all meals and accommodation.

Offer: Pay no later than the 22nd of April, and you can deduct DKK 500 per participant, bringing the total to DKK 5500.

Workshop Agenda

Tuesday (Day 1)

08:00 - Arrival and setup

09:30 - Welcome to Ian Barker

09:45 - This is what I do.

We sit down for a discussion on what | really do all day and the things that actually go on for the Developer Advocate. Why did | change some fundamental things we used to do, and what are my plans for 2025.

A confidential briefing (a special presentation for attendees). Includes: AMA ­ ask me anything. An open Q & A about RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder, Idera, and Embarcadero. If you submit your questions in advance it helps me reach out to others in the company if I do not know the answer; but I am happy for you to ask me unprepared things too!

10:45 - Break

11:00 - User interface masterclass
How to get it right no matter the platform and some techniques and tricks to add a little extra polish to your existing apps. Including how to properly handle styles in your own components and code, alignment, and HiDPI scaling

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - MySQL
Connecting to it using FireDAC and a look at the pros and cons of other alternatives too such as UniDAC and MyDAC. Covering the recent changes in MySQL 8.4 and the challenges it raises such as the enforced "caching sha2 password" which will break every app written for a prior version.

14:00 - Break

14:10 - What can you do with Amazon AWS?

An in­depth look at the cloud services offered by Amazon including DynamoDB, Rekognition, simple notification service, S3, and several others. We'll find out what they do, how much they cost (and how to minimize that) and then go through some demo apps to show how we can make use of them ourselves.

15:00 - Coffee break

15:15 - Day one Wrap Up

16:00 - A word from Nohau

18:30 - Drinks before dinner in Tranquebar

19:00 - Dinner

Wednesday (Day 2)

07:00 - Breakfast and CHECK OUT (please check out from your room before 09:00)

09:00 - WebStencils workshop
Making Delphi do server­side web the right way

10:00 - Break

10:10 - Clientside web options

We take a look at TMS WEB Core in depth ­ creating web client apps using Delphi code along with the pros and cons of competing technologies 

11:00 - Coffee break

11:15 - Talking to the real world
We take some hardware devices ­and off the shelf OEM biometric time clock, some cool loT devices, some cloud­hosted devices and sensors ­and write some code live to talk to them and make something useful.

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Al in the IDE, Al in your apps
We try out some of the Al features of RAD Studio 12 and see what we like and do not like about it: spoiler alert ­- I have some strong opinions on the subject! We'll also discuss my thoughts on Al in the IDE and how Embarcadero arrived at some of the decisions we made. Then we will look at some of the ways to integrate Al in your own apps and come up with and implement some real use cases and actual working code.

14:00 - Coffee break

14:15 - What's new, what's interesting
Let's take a look at some great open source and commercial projects and see what we can do with them.

15:00 - Break

15:10 - Final wrapup

16:00 - Evaluation and Goodby