You’re invited! Dev Days of Summer is a two-week celebration of coding, with free online webinars on the hottest software development topics under the summer sun!
Dev Days of Summer is perfect for both newbies and seasoned pros, and has fantastic learning opportunities for everyone.
Which means that from August 12-16 and 19-23, you’ll have the opportunity to either get started on a coding adventure, or take your coding game to new levels.
Dev Days of Summer will put you in the center of the latest trends in app and software development, presented by masters of the coding craft.
What You Can Expect From Dev Days of Summer
• Daily Webinars: Deep dives into the latest trends and coding technologies.
• Expert Presentations: Hear from top developers about their journeys, projects, and the latest trends in the industry.
• Skill-sharing Tutorials: Practical sessions to enhance your coding skills and mastery over many of our tools.
• Community Activities: Fun and interactive challenges, coding jams, and more! Try the activities for yourself.
See you in Dev Days of Summer
Best regards,
The Dev Days of Summer Team
Looking for submissions from people - you’re all invited to produce a webinar if you feel inclined.
Nexus are doing at least one - I’d really like to have more content from others.
It’s a chance to showcase your stuff, products, books, videos, etc in front of 1000s of people. We’re looking for content on a broad range of topics. Videos would be (preferably) prerecorded with a short live Q & A / chat. We’re aiming for ~10,000 registrations. Live we might get a few hundred participating but the replays usually get around 7 - 10k views. The replays will automatically appear in the IDE Welcome page too.
I am hosting both weeks so it would be me you’re chatting with - and we’re using Re:Stream which gives a “TV like” experience with cool things like lower 1/3s, QR codes that can drive traffic directly to your website or content and picture in picture type stuff.
It’s great fun and most participants find it very useful and gives a MASSIVE bump in visits to their site etc.
We are streaming live to YouTube (multiple channels), Meta (Facebook) Live, Instagram Live, Twitch, X (Twitter) Live and various other sources.
If you want to have a session, just email me and we can work out what you’re comfortable with and the topic etc - ian.barker@embarcadero.com
@ianbarker what length is each session / section ?
I am looking for sessions which are ~60 - 90 minutes long. Each with ~15 minutes live Q & A or discussion. Preferably pre-recorded.
So 45 minutes + 15 minutes Q & A, and 1 hour 15 minutes with 15 minutes Q & A. Live Q & A is optional - if we have questions and the speaker is not available, I will handle the audience or have someone with me to chat about it.
If someone wants to do longer or shorter, let me know by email and we can work it out. I’m looking for content rather than chunks that fit a set of rules. 
Week 1
August 12th (CST) watch here
Empowering your apps with AWS - Richard Hatherall
Writing an NT Service: A (Basic) Guide - Tim Coates
Introduction to FireDAC: Fundamentals of Data Access - Jim McKeeth
August 13th (CST) watch here
Why you should leave Delphi 7, once and for all - Dion Mai
August 14th (CST) watch here
Product demo and showcase of Delphi app - Font Creator - Erwin Denissen
GenAI Apps in Delphi! - Dion Mai
From VCL to WEB: a giant leap for software developers, a small step for Delphi developers - Bruno Fierens
August 15th (CST) watch here
Sempare Template Engine - Conrad Vermeulen
Mastering RTTI: From Basics to Advanced Techniques - Gustavo Barreto
August 16th (CST) watch here
Firestore Cloud Database - Christoph Schneider
Make games in Delphi (2024 edition) - Patrick Premartin
Boosting Development in Delphi with GitHub Actions and ChatGPT! - Yuri Bertoldi
Add logging to your application in 5 minutes - Juan Castillo
Week 2
August 19th (CST)
Simplifying Cloud with Delphi - Daniel Fernandes
August 20th (CST)
Handling Exceptions in Delphi - Maico Dal Ri
It’s broken! Now what? - Debugging in RAD Studio - Alan Fletcher
August 21th (CST)
Coding games using Castle Game Engine and Delphi - Michalis Kamburelis
Advanced usage of jachLog: Performance, filtering, multithreading support and more - Juan A. Castillo
August 22th (CST)
A smart backpack controlled from a mobile application with FGX Native - Yaroslav Brovin
EasyDBMigrator - Ali Dehban
August 23th (CST)
Functional programming - Dr Kevin R. Bond
OpenAPIWizard - Ali Dehban
Note that our schedule is a little messed up on the website.
We are starting at 10am US Central time each day - and most sessions are around an hour long.
I am going to try and get the schedule on the website fixed asap (in between hosting and presenting).
Embarcadero have been releasing the individualised presentations at a furious rate!
Delphi Dev Days - Day 1
Writing an NT Service: A (Basic) Guide to … - Tim Coates
Empowering your apps with AWS - Richard Hatherall
Introduction to FireDAC: Fundamentals of Data Access - Jim McKeeth
Delphi Dev Days - Day 2
Integration testing HTTP clients with WebMocks - Richard Hatherall
Using Clang with Windows. The out of the box Clang - Roger Swann
Why you should leave Delphi 7, once and for all - Dion Mai
FireDAC: Secret Weapons - Jim McKeeth
Delphi Dev Days - Day 3
Product demo and showcase of Delphi app: Font Creator - Erwin Denissen
GenAI Apps in Delphi! - Dion Mai
Program the Rainbow: Working with Colors - Jim McKeeth
From VCL to WEB - Bruno Fierens
Delphi Dev Days - Day 4
Sempare Template Engine - Conrad Vermeulen
Mastering RTTI: From Basics to Advanced Techniques - Gustavo Barreto
Using SVG Images in Delphi - Patrick Premartin
Delphi Dev Days - Day 5
Firestore Cloud Database - Christoph Schneider
Make games in Delphi (2024 edition) - Patrick Premartin
Boosting Development in Delphi with GitHub Actions and ChatGPT! - Yuri Bertoldi Dev Days of Summer
Add logging to your application in 5 minutes - Juan Castillo
Delphi Dev Days - Day 6
Simplifying the Cloud With Delphi - Daniel Fernandes link
Ian Barker - Several sessions - FMX & Skia
Jason Chapman - Community Chat link
Delphi Dev Days - Day 7
Handling Exceptions in Delphi - Maico Dal Ri link
Ian Barker - Github & version control
Introduction to Firedac - Jim McKeeth link
Implementing ‘Try Finally’ Codeblocks in C++ - Miguel Angel Moreno link
Delphi Dev Days - Day 8
Coding Games Using Castle Game Engine & Delphi - Michalis Kamburelis link
jachLog Library Deep Dive - Juan Antonio Castillo link
RAII for Delphi - Miguel Angel Moreno link
Delphi Dev Days - Day 9
Introduction to HTMX - Antonio Zapater link
FGX Native - Brovin Yaroslav link
5 Essential Steps to Modernise Your Analytics App - Daniel Shaw-Dennis
EasyDBMigrator - Ali Dehban link
Ian Barker - Delphi resources online
Maximising Customer Value with Embedded Analytics - Edgar Kautzner link
Delphi Dev Days - Day 10
About UltraEdit: The Swiss Army Knife of Text Editors
Functional Programming - Dr Kevin R Bond
Coroutines, What the Hell Are They? - Paul McGee
OpenAPIWizard - Ali Dehban
Delphi Tips & Tricks - Marco Geuze
We even have at least one Australian taking part (we already recorded his session with me barely awake at 4am!)
I’ll also be doing some sessions with Code Partners too. 
It’s named wrong though… Winter finished here months ago, we are in Summer now!
Sorry, we go on Planet Hoth timezones.
Also, I live in Dallas, so it’s wrong for me too since Winter is scheduled for 12th to 14th February just prior to the second annual tornado season.
@ianbarker with a TForm Class Helper for preserving form locations across monitors … (at 44:44)
@ianbarker , do you know if a Report.Prepare is something you could run in a background task ? (If you had some complicated or very long report)
You can also download it from here: GitHub - checkdigits/quick_reports_example: Slides and example SQLite database from the "The much-loved QuickReport is back – let’s take a look at it" webinar - look for quick_reports_example/locationmemory.pas at main · checkdigits/quick_reports_example · GitHub
Yes, it has a multi-threaded property too, so it understands the concept of threads.