D2009 released… then some holidays

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you must have noticed…. right after the official release of Delphi 2009 there has not been a single post by me. Reason for that is that I am on holiday.

Actually, I am writing this post sitting on the balcony of a hotel in Lagao, Portugal with a bottle of local red wine to my right hand side, my iPod left of me, charging as it has been playing constantly today, while I was enjoying the sun and local beach …

I would like to point out that I am back to “business” on Monday doing a workshop on Object-Oriented Programming Basics in Delphi. If people want, I will point out some new things that are available since Delphi 2009. This will be a workshop as part of the Delphi Code Camp which is done by the Entwickler Akademie in Germany. Daniel R. Wolf from Delphipraxis.net (http://www.delphipraxis.net) will be doing the very same workshop with me together. If you are in the Frankfurt-area in Germany on Monday and have not known about the workshop, be sure to hop to http://entwickler-akademie.de/ as there are workshops all next week. It can never hurt to ask if there are seats available.

During my stay here, I was also involved in planning the sessions for EKON 12 as I am a member of the advisory board. Many well-known bloggers from the Delphi community will be doing sessions about Delphi 2009 in particular. Furthermore, we have a couple of first-time speakers at EKON. Daniel R. Wolf will be one of them, talking about two very interesting topics. One is Regular Expressions for Delphi Programmers, the second is called “Pathfinding Algorithms in Delphi”.  Barry Kelly, the CodeGear compiler engineer, will also be there in person and talk about details in the Delphi compiler. You surely cannot miss out on that! We will also have Jason Southwell from the USA over to do a couple of sessions. Jason is a number one expert with regard to Web Applications especially with regard to IntraWeb or VCL for the Web as it is called these days…

We also have the “regular bunch” of experts. Here is some of their session content:

• Olaf Monien will talk about the VCL for the Web and Webservices in general
• Daniel Magin aka “Mr. Interbase” is giving detailed information about building Interbase Databases and Applications. Daniel will be presenting other content as well, of course, but his long-time experience with Interbase made me use the alias.
• Daniel Wischnewski
• Marco Cantù
• Bernd Ua will deal with OOP basics in Delphi and other sessions
• Joeren Pluimers
• Hadi Hariri, who will offer a workshop for advanced IntraWeb users
• Thomas Pfister will show up reporting options for Delphi developers

I also emailed with DavidI today and he told me he will be there as well to do the keynotes in person.

You are still only thinking about coming to EKON 12? I think it is one event this year that you cannot miss. I am definitely eager to meet up with all my friends in the Delphi community in person again. Please have a look at www.entwicklerkonferenz.de for the exact dates, complete session schedule and all other things you need to know about the conference.

So, this is enough for the time being. I will email some photos soon …

Oh, if you can read German, be sure to read the introductary article about Delphi 2009 from Daniel Magin, Thomas Pfister, Olaf Monien and me at entwickler.com . It contains some useful information if you consider upgrading to Delphi 2009.