Głowacki - Expert Delphi robust and fast cross-platform application development

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First published: June 2017

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I have known and worked with Pawel Glowacki for more than 16 years. Pawel is one of the world-wide Delphi community leading experts. In this book, Expert Delphi, Pawel takes you on a learning journey that started in the early 1980s with Compas Pascal, Poly Pascal, and Turbo Pascal. For more than 20 years, Delphi has continued to evolve to meet the needs of developers around the world. During most of this time, Pawel has been a key team member and advocate for the continuous innovation of the compilers, frameworks, runtime library, integrated development environment, and tool chain, allowing developers to easily build applications across desktop, server, mobile, internet, and cloud platforms.

With FireMonkey (FMX), developers can build on top of a modern multiplatform framework based on a rich history of objects, components, and libraries and that has included Turbo Vision, Object Windows, and the VCL. Leveraging these frameworks, libraries, and tools allows developers to create applications for a wide range of architectures, databases, and distributed computing environments.

In his presentations and examples, Pawel shows you how easy it is to create a wide range of applications using SQL/NoSQL databases, XML, and JSON. Pawel also helps developers create multitier applications using the latest technologies, including REST.

As a member of and a leading advocate for the large, global Delphi community and ecosystem, Pawel is uniquely qualified to show you how to become a mobile developer superhero, become a hyper-productive software engineer, and build one source code application that can be compiled to all major mobile platforms and form factors. Pawel also shows you how to build stunning 2D and 3D multidevice graphical user interfaces with the FireMonkey library, providing an outstanding user experience for your application's users.

With Expert Delphi, you'll learn the best practices for writing high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code with Delphi's Object Pascal language and component architecture. After you complete Pawel 's book, you'll understand how to take full advantage of mobile operating systems, frameworks, and hardware capabilities, including working with sensors and the Internet of Things.

Beyond developing apps for desktops and smartphones, you'll learn how to quickly and easily integrate with cloud services and data using REST APIs and JSON. You'll also learn how to architect and deploy powerful mobile backend services.

In Expert Delphi, Pawel encapsulates the knowledge gained through years as a world-class Delphi engineer, an entertaining presenter, a community leader, and a passionate advocate. With his words, step-by-step instructions, screenshots, source code snippets, examples, and links to additional sources of information, you will learn how to continuously enhance your skills and apps.

Become a developer superhero and build stunning cross-platform apps with Delphi.

David Intersimone "David I"

Vice President of Developer Communities, Evans Data Corp. and Embarcadero Community MVP.

Santa Cruz, California, USA

Pawel Glowacki is Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, he spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. In addition to working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represents Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker.

Dave Nottage is an independent software consultant who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

Developing software with Delphi since 1995 when Delphi 1 was first released, he has been a valued member of Embarcadero's TeamB since 2001, and an Embarcadero MVP since 2014.

Dave is considered an expert in Delphi and has shared his expertise as a speaker at Delphi developer conferences, including BorCon, Delphi Live, and ADUG Symposia. He is an active member on Embarcadero forums and Stack Overflow, and his popular blog articles, which can be found at Delphi Worlds, provide solutions for common Delphi problems. His blog is followed by many developers across the globe and is considered a go-to source.

Having worked on projects for major global enterprises, corporations, and governments, he is now working on his own commercial product, a set of code libraries that aids developers in cross-platform development.

In his spare time, Dave enjoys playing bass guitar in a band, art exhibitions, puzzles that challenge the mind, and traveling the world.

Dave can be contacted at

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