Due to the rather short notice of the date, which gave some other potential speakers a bit of a hard time and because we have received quite a few emails from the community, we have decided to shift the dates to August 23-26. The location will still be San Jose, this time the Crowne Plaza in downtown.

Hopefully this date works for more people.

The Crowne Plaza looks really nice, although I am not sure where the new Embarcadero office is located in relation to it.

It is however right next to the Tech Museum, which we have had conference evening events at in the past.

Still no update on the Delphi Live! website, and I don’t know if there is an extension on the Call for Papers or not.

Let Marco Cantù show you how to get the most from RAD Studio 2010 with Representational State Transfer (REST) – a new architecture for Web services that is having a significant impact on the industry. Join Marco as he delves into the technologies involved in REST from the Delphi perspective.

Topics covered in this webinar will include:

• The Concepts Behind Representational State Transfer
• REST technologies and Delphi
• Creating Delphi REST clients that interface with RSS feeds, maps, and Twitter
• Data-Oriented REST Servers

We are looking forward to another great gathering for Delphi developers from all over the world and to meeting you again in that area where Delphi history has been written – and we want to celebrate with you, of course, Delphi’s 15th birthday!

Please accept our invitation to submit session proposal for this great community event. Here is some basic information as well as the Call for Papers!

>> Conference Dates:
Main Conference: May 18 / 19
Pre Conference Tutorial: May 17
Post Conference Tutorial: May 20

UPDATE: New dates announced.

>> Conference Location: San Jose

>> Tracks

• Architecture / Design
• OOP
• Database
• IDE, Tools & Components
• Core Development
• Basics / Fundamentals
• Native Delphi
• Delphi Prism
• Delphi & .NET
• Delphi & Web
• Delphi & PHP

>> Call for Papers:
Please submit your proposals by February 24, 2010 at
http://delphilive.com/input

If you already have a log in to this website, you can use it. If not, registration only takes you a few seconds.

>> Sessions:
Sessions are 75 minutes. It’s possible to divide a session in an introduction and a sequel.

>> Target Groups:

• Software developers
• Software architects
• Project managers
• Consultants
• IT managers
• Trainers

>> Misc:

1. Accommodation will be covered based on the contribution of each speaker to the conference.
2. You have free access to all sessions and tutorials.
3. It is mandatory for each speaker to give at least 2 talks.

We are looking forward to meeting you in San Jose!

I’ll keep the public folder link available until I post the final version of the episode.

For all of those who subscribed to DropBox via the link in the last post, it didn’t give me your email address, so I cannot add you to the public drop box.  If you want to have access to the Public Delphi DropBox going forward, then you need to leave a comment here using your email address.

Dropbox offers 2 GB free, but up to 100 GB for premium subscribers.  As a bonus, if you sign up via a referral, then you both get an additional 250 MB free.

So if you are interested in something like that, let me know, and sign-up for Dropbox.  If you do sign up via the link in this post, then we both get an additional250 MB of storage for free (more if you upgrade to a premium account).

I have some fun and exciting stuff planned to share out, and I would love to see what everyone else would be interested in sharing.  Of course we want to make sure if it isn’t your own creation you have permission to share it.

So either sign up via one of the links here, or if you have already signed up then let me know you want to be part of the network.

If you want to know some more cool thinks you can do with Dropbox, check out 15 Dropbox Hacks from Maximum PC.

The call is out for Unicode migration stories. If you have encountered a Unicode-related challenge migrating your existing applications to Delphi 2009 or later, other Delphi developers have the opportunity to learn from your success.

Author and Delphi developer Cary Jensen is looking for real-world stories about Unicode migration for inclusion in a white paper on migrating Delphi applications to Unicode. With your input, this white paper should serve as a valuable resource for the entire Delphi community.

What Cary needs are brief descriptions of the challenge or challenges that you encountered, along with your solutions. He will mention your name in the white paper if he includes your story (unless you want to remain anonymous).

Cary is a great guy, and he does so much for all of us, so why don’t you send him a nice birthday present of a Unicode migration story.  You don’t need to gift wrap it, or even put candles on it.  If you are feeling festive when you are done, then you can eat a slice of cake (or whatever you do to celebrate) in his honor.

While today, November 5th is his Birthday, he is accepting gifts through November 27th, but the sooner the better!

John kicked off the poll process by nominating Zarko Gajic of Delphi.About.Com and Peter Below of TeamB. Then the community nominated a number of others, including myself. Just being nominated among such other great Delphi legends is quite an honor.

In the end around 500 developers voted and I received 11% of the votes, ending up with 4th place, making me a Nominee. The other winners are:

• Daniel R. Wolf of Delphi PRAXiS with the Gold award,
• Zarko Gajic with the Silver award
• Peter Below with the Bronze award.

Other nominees include

• Primoz Gabrijelcic
• Gary Darby
• Alister Christie
• Andreas Hausladen
• Neil Moffat

Also Primoz Gabrijelcic won the nobility prize for encouraging other to vote for Peter Below.

Be sure to check out the interviews with a number of the winners, including me.

Hadi Hariri is Technical Lead at iMeta Technologies, an ISV specialized in developing complete IT solutions. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.  You can catch him on his blog or on Twitter.

We caught up with Hadi at the start of day 2 of SDC 2009.

This is the first actual release.  Previously you had to download it from SVN.  It still appears to be a little lite on the documentation though, but it is exciting to see this project progressing forward.

I encourage you all to get out and vote in the poll.  It closes this Saturday the 24th of October.