The agenda and course topics for this year's Delphi
Developer Days with Nick Hodges and me, Cary Jensen, has been released, and we
think that you will be pleased with the selection of topics. Over the course of
this two-day event we will have a combination of talks, some of which are
jointly presented by Nick and me, as well as talks where we break out into
separate rooms to cover a variety of topics.
For our joint sessions we are covering threading and thread
synchronization, the parallel programming library, code de-coupling, dependency
injection, and a debugging deep dive. We are also going to discuss best
practices in professional development, a thought-provoking look at the
principles and philosophies crucial to success in the art of software
development. And finally, no Delphi Developer Days tour would be complete
without the Tip, Tricks, and Techniques session, were Nick and I share some of
our favorite tricks-of-the-trade.
I
am really excited about presenting these joint sessions with Nick. Over the
past couple of years Nick and I have co-presented talks at several Delphi
conferences, and each time it was not only fun for us, but also provided our
audiences with a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Nick and I are
passionate about the topics we picked for our joint sessions, and the
opportunity to present them jointly gives us the chance to really explore the
issues, and provide a contrast of opinions and solutions.
Topics for our separate talks including unit testing,
FireDAC, advanced Delphi language features, patterns in Delphi, building
Windows services, and using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). As in the past,
these joint sessions are concurrent, meaning that you'll have to choose between
two simultaneous topics. But you'll miss nothing, as Nick and I are publishing
the material for each session in the Delphi Developer Days course book. This
course book, which in the past has been well over three hundred pages long, is
only available to attendees of Delphi Developer Days.
Along the way we'll also have a keynote address from
Embarcadero, question and answer sessions, and the opportunity to network with
fellow Delphi developers. For a detailed agenda and descriptions of each of the
topics, please visit http://www.DelphiDeveloperDays.com/descriptions.html.
We are very fortunate to have Nick join us for Delphi
Developer Days this year. Over the past several years Nick has published two
books on Delphi, Coding in Delphi and More Coding in Delphi. He
is getting ready to publish his next book, Dependency Injection in Delphi,
and you don't want to miss this chance to hear one of the leading Delphi
experts share his views and insights. I hope to see you at Delphi Developer
Days 2016 in Chicago, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, or Baltimore.