The combination of Sybase database technologies such as IQ and SAP’s market leading business intelligence tools provides a powerful solution for analysing the contents of large data warehouses. 

Embarcadero has released RAD Studio XE4, its suite of development tools for Window, Web and for the first time, Apple iOS. iOS support first appeared in an earlier release, but in preview, and the current effort works using a new LLVM-based ARM compiler so is somewhat unlike the preview. Individual products such as Delphi XE4

...continue reading RAD Studio XE4 with Delphi for iOS is here. Who will use it?

Delphi developers should note changes in the Delphi language coming as a result of the move towards the LLVM compiler for mobile support. Embarcadero has released a paper describing these in detail. The just-released RAD Studio XE4 includes the ARM compiler for iOS, with an Android compiler to follow later this year.

It seems to

...continue reading Changes in the Delphi language for ARM and mobile support

Bing Maps Events

The following events have been organized by the Bing Maps team.

 

Bing Maps Windows Store Apps Developer Event

Date: May 10, 2013 @ 9:30am – 12:30pm

Location: Microsoft Cardinal Place, Auditorium, 100 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL

Bing Maps would like to invite you to our Windows Store Apps Developer Event. We have some great speakers lined up who will be showcasing some of the latest Apps developed using Microsoft technology whilst detailing the end to end technical build process.

Register: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032547101&Culture=en-GB&community=0

 

The Power of Bing Maps & CRM

Date: May 10, 2013 @ 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Location: Microsoft Cardinal Place, Auditorium, 100 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL

Microsoft Bing Maps would like to invite you to our CRM & Mapping event. The objective of this event is to showcase how mapping can add value, driving greater insights from...

Embarcadero is removing Prism from the next version of RAD Studio, XE4, expected later this month.

Prism is actually a third-party product, based on RemObjects Oxygene. Prism and Oxygene let you code in Delphi and compile to .NET or Mono.

Marc Hoffman from RemObjects explains the change here:

Starting with the upcoming release of

...continue reading No more Delphi for .NET: Prism removed from RAD Studio XE4

Today at its Software Conference in Paris Intel presented its HTML5 development tools.

There are several components, starting with the XDK, a cross-platform development kit based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript designed to be packaged as mobile apps using Cordova, the open source variant of PhoneGap.

There is an intriguing comment here:

The XDK

...continue reading Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development

One of the more interesting features of HTML5 is the canvas elements. The canvas provides us with a feature rich, low level 2D rendering panel and is supported by all the major web browsers.

In this blog post, we are going to create a Bing Maps module that wraps the standard pushpin class to create a new HTML5 Canvas pushpin class. There are a lot of cool and interesting things we can do with the canvas that would require a lot more work using traditional HTML and JavaScript. By using this module, tasks such as rotating a pushpin or programmatically changing the color can be easily achieved. In this post I will use the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control, but all of the code can be easily reused with the Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps JavaScript control as well.

Creating the Canvas Pushpin module

In Bing Maps, pushpins have the ability to render custom HTML content. We can take advantage of this by passing in an HTML5 as the custom HTML5 content into the pushpin options. Since we cannot access...

I am attending the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas (between 5 and 6,000 attendees I was told), where Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Windows Server & System Center, gave the opening keynote this morning. #

There was not a lot of news as such, but a few things struck me as notable.

...continue reading Microsoft takes aim at VMware, talks cloud and mobile device management at MMS 2013

Yesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:

Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down

...continue reading Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?

We are excited to announce that Bing Maps is the default mapping service in Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2014 software. For those not familiar with AutoCAD, AutoCAD is Autodesk’s flagship software product and is the world’s most widely used 3D CAD (computer-aided design) software. Chances are that you use a product or have been in a building, public area or other development that was designed with AutoCAD. AutoCAD and AutoCAD vertical products such as AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Civil 3D, are used in a wide range of industries and by architects, designers and engineers.

How is Bing Maps used in AutoCAD 2014 and the AutoCAD vertical products? AutoCAD now has a built-in Geolocation feature and allows users to create and enhance their designs with Bing Maps geocoding and map data. Bing Maps inside AutoCAD 2014 brings in location context and results in more accurate and richer designs. The key geolocation workflows in AutoCAD 2014 supported with Bing Maps include:

Locate your AutoCAD design in the real-world...