Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

The just announced DelphiLive! conference in San Jose will have two tutorial/workshop days.  I will offer a full day workshop on IntraWeb/VCL for the Web.

To register, you need to sign up for one of the “tutorial days” at DelphiLive! Registration The exact date (Wed or Sat) will be announced soon. (You may leave a note with your preference below)

VCL for the Web / IntraWeb Workshop

This Power Workshop starts with providing an overview of the available Web development tools for Delphi/C++ Builder. During the introduction the different approaches of WebSnap / WebBroker (Win32), ASP.NET (.NET) and IntraWeb will be explained. The differences between page- and application-oriented Web development will be discussed to finally introduce the Application Mode of IntraWeb.

The goal of this session is to learn the base skills to develop a complex Web application. Both strategies, starting from scratch or porting an existing Windows desktop application, will be taught.

Agenda

Part I

• The first Application
• Available components
• Deployment / Server Installation

Part II

• Session Handling
• Multi-Threading
• Multiple Form Applications

Part III

• RIA – Rich Internet Applications
• Ajax – Asynchrones Web
• JavaScript
• Dojo

Part IV

• Data Access
• Templates and Visual Form Inheritance
• (Reporting, Scaleability, Security)

Requirements

Basic skills in Delphi or C++ Builder are required. Examples are shown in primarily in Delphi, but depending on the attendee structure C++ samples can also be shown. Please bring your laptop. Delphi 5 or better should be pre-installed. IntraWeb can be installed with the help of the trainer.

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A couple of IntraWeb users asked me recently how to play sounds (wav, mp3 etc) on IntraWeb forms. There is a TIWMpeg component which can be used for that. Read the rest of this entry »

Implementing Asynchronous events with IntraWeb is plain and easy. Just hook some Pascal (or C++) code to any of the OnAsync Event handlers and you are done. The Advanced Ajax Events demo shows how to call Async events from your custom JavaScript routines and how to implement an asynchronous Key event handler. Read the rest of this entry »

There will be 3 full day workshops on 3.-5. December in Munich, Germany. Topics covered: Rave Reports, Delphi for Vista, IntraWeb / VCL for the web. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Maps is a huge map database / GIS. They have digitized map data and satelite images of the whole world in an amazing quality. I got several support questions how to access the Google API from IntraWeb, so I thougt it was a good idea to provide a demo that shows how to display Google maps in IntraWeb applications. Source is attached. Read the rest of this entry »

A new beta version of IntraWeb 9.0 has been released. This beta is available to the public. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting this year, the selection of the available sessions at the anual DevCo developer’s conference is no longer done by a hidden committee, but you can vote for the sessions you would like to see. Read the rest of this entry »