Delphi 30 For 30 Webinars 2025
Tuesday, January 14th to Friday, April 25th, 2025
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Hello developers! Yes, it’s Delphi’s 30th anniversary this February, and to say it’s come a long way since 1995 is a massive understatement. So is saying it’s kept up with the times – from working with AI to compiling apps for any platform out there from one elegant codebase, Delphi really is a developer’s dream in a multi-device, multi-platform world where computing is breaking new ground every day.
And to mark this most excellent anniversary, we’re launching a webinar series on all the amazing things Delphi can do today, and all the amazing things you can do with Delphi.
Get ready for no less than 30(!) webinars hosted by your favorite webinar host, Embarcadero Developer Advocate Ian Barker, from January 14th to April 28th, 2025. In this series we’re also going to have a very special 30th Birthday Webinar on February 14th, 2025.
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What’s The Webinar Schedule?
Webinars are scheduled every Tuesday and Friday. Here’s the complete list:
| Tuesday, January 14th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Beyond Chatbots: Gemini AI for Real-World Business Applications – Ian Barker Discover how to easily integrate Google’s newest cutting-edge AI into your apps using the free open-source FB4D library. Google’s Gemini enables natural language processing, allowing you to enhance your apps with the ability to interpret the contents of diverse documents and sources like PDFs, images, and videos to generate comprehensive answers in the form of structured, usable JSON objects. |
| Friday, January 17th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| The Best Embedded Database for Your Mobile Apps is Free – Ian Barker Do you want to have a fully embedded zero config database you can use in your mobile apps which is better than SQLite, can easily scale to full client/server and which you probably have a free license for already? Then join us and find out more! |
| Tuesday, January 21st, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Gadgets, Gizmos, And Cool Connected IoT Stuff You Can Make – Ian Barker Let’s take a look at some of the cool things you can plug into computers and how we can talk to them. |
| Friday, January 24th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| RAD Server – The Super-Stable Easy Middleware You Never Knew You Needed – Ian Barker Join us as we take a close look at RAD Server and see how this easy, super-scalable tool can help modernize your apps and securely centralize the business logic of any organization – and you probably have a license for it already! |
| Tuesday, January 28th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Use TFrameStand in Your Mobile Apps to Make Your Life Easier – Ian Barker TFrameStand is a superb, FREE, open source component which can do magical things for your mobile app’s navigation and UI. Join us as we show how it works and why everyone should be using it in their mobile apps! |
| Friday, January 31st, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Everything You Should Know About How to Use Amazon’s Powerful Rekognition AI Service in Your Apps – Ian Barker We do an in-depth demo writing code to use Amazon’s Rekognition, a service that allows your app to detect and classify objects, scenes, concepts (happy, sad, safe, dangerous) in still and moving images. It can spot celebrities, extract printed and handwritten text in pictures and video, guess the age and gender of a person. It can even warn about nudity. |
| Tuesday, February 4th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| How to Modernize Your Legacy Apps – Ian Barker Is your app stuck on an older version of Delphi or C++? We look at various tools, services, and companies that can help you modernize your app’s UI, move the code to use the latest Delphi or C++Builder or give things a facelift to bring them up to date. |
| Friday, February 7th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| How to Create Installers For Your Apps on Windows, macOS, and Linux – Ian Barker Coding your creation is only part of the process – you need to make it possible so users can safely download and properly install your app corretly. We discuss various ways to do this and look at some of the great free and commercial tools which help make it a breeze to get right |
| Tuesday, February 11th, 2025, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Scaling for HiDPI – How to Make Your Apps Work Properly at Any Screen Resolution – Ian Barker Screen sizes and pixle depths on today’s hardware can make it a challenge for even the most adept coders to get right. Join us as we discuss some best practices and techniques to make your UI behave properly and look great. |
| Friday, February 14th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Delphi is 30 This Year! – Ian Barker and Guests Join Ian and some VERY special guests for out truly epic 30th anniversary event as we look back over the rich history of our favorite programming language, go gooey-eyed over great moments, marvel at how far we’ve come, and try to guess what the world of coding will be like in another 30 years. |
| Tuesday, February 18th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Spring4D And Why You Should be Using it – Ian Barker Spring4D is one of the most versatile and powerful open source libraries available for Delphi programmers. Join us as we take you through what Spring4D is, why we say it’s so good, and how it even plays a part in the development of RAD Studio itself! |
| Friday, February 21st, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Delivering Your Apps in Docker Containers – Ian Barker Docker is one of those technologies which you really do NEED to know about, Join us as we show you what it is, how it works, and why it’s one of the fastest growing projects in the world. |
| Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Five Ways to Create PDFs in Your Apps – Ian Barker The advent of the ubiquitous internet means that very few people print anything on paper and almost everything is delivered electronically as a PDF. We show you five different ways to create PDFs and take your through the pros and cons of various free and commerical libraries. |
| Friday, February 28th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| How to Send Email via GMail and Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite) – Ian Barker The rising flood of spam email has meant that apps like Google’s GMAIL and GSuite have introduced new security requirements which your apps need to understand and use. We show you how to do prevent your emails being blocked and how to comply with the new rules. |
| Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| How to Create Web Apps The EASY Way – Ian Barker Delphi does web! WebStencils is the perfect way to get your Delphi apps creating real, lightweight, modern active web pages with very easy minimal code – and it is 100% free! |
| Friday, March 7th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 6pm UTC |
| Best Practices and Top Tips When Developing Mobile Apps – Ian Barker Join us as we go through the key points you need to know to create mobile apps that work well, comply with Google and Apple’s app store rules and can access the full range of hardware and services on your user’s devices. |
| Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Why You Should Drop SQLite and Use Interbase Today – Ian Barker Did you know Interbase works on pretty much EVERYTHING? It can be embedded for use on mobile, scale up to true client/server, is so fault tolerant it’s used in crashproof flight-recorder blackboxes, and enables full “data encryption at rest” demanded by data protection regulations. |
| Friday, March 14th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| mORMot – What is it And Why is it so Awesome? – Ian Barker mORMot is a powerful and flexible tool for developers looking to build robust and scalable applications that implement best-in-class comprehensive cross-platform ORM, ODM. SOA and MVC. Join us to find out what all that means and see why mORMot is so universally loved by developers. |
| Tuesday, March 18th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Help! My App is Being Detected as a Computer Virus! – Ian Barker What to do to prevent your apps being (falsely) detected as a computer virus or trojan and how to prevent them being infected for real! |
| Friday, March 21st, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| OAUTH2 – What is it And How Can You Use it in Your Apps? – Ian Barker OAUTH2 should be the word of the past year since it has become the de facto method to implement secure authorization and access. We show you what OAUTH2 can do and how to use it in your own apps. |
| Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Databases, Databases. Databases! – Ian Barker Join us as we show you how to connect to SQLite, Interbase, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, the ‘NoSQLMongoDB’, and even cloud-hosted databases with middleware like Amazon DynamoDB, XData,, Azure DBs, and lots more. |
| Friday, March 28th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Who Uses Delphi? We Take a Look at a Whole Bunch of Live Projects – Ian Barker The trouble with Delphi is it’s “silently successful”. It’s so good at running for years without any problems that people don’t know they are using it. We pick a whole bunch of superb active and modern projects which use rock-solid Delphi at their core. |
| Tuesday, April 1st, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| How to Create an Unhackable AI-Driven Security Cam App – Ian Barker Do you want to monitor a workplace or even your home in a way that can’t be stopped by thieves and hackers? Join us as we create an app which can spot unwelcome guests and automatically notify you or the authorities! |
| Friday, April 4th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| How to Enable And Add iOS And Android Notifications to Your App – Ian Barker Android and iOS devices both have wonderful support for notifications but they way they are implemented varies widely between the two, Join us as we cover the steps you need to take to enable mobile notifications for your own apps. |
| Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| How to Create an Automated Do you want to automatically track the time spent on each application on a computer? Perhaps you need to bill for your time, or maybe you want to make sure someone is working on some homework assignment instead of blasting dragons. |
| Friday, April 11th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| How to Create The Backend Infrastructure For a Social Media Network – Ian Barker We already showed you how to create a user interface – now let’s create the actual ‘back end’ infrastructure, cloud business logic, and data handling to make our social media app complete. |
| Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Here’s How to Enable Desktop Notifications on Windows And macOS – Ian Barker Desktop notifications are a very different beast to those of mobile apps. Even between the two leading desktop technologies things work very differently too. So join us as we cover how to make desktop notifications work properly. |
| Friday, April 18th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Detecting Dark Mode, Light Mode, And Accent Colors The 2025 Way – Ian Barker A few years back we showed you how to detect dark mode and switch your app’s UI automatically. Now in this webinar we update that with code to detect the change on the fly and how to detect and implement dark and light mode on mobile too. |
| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| How to Write Apps For Smart Watches, Roku Devices, And Meta Quest VR Headsets – Ian Barker Did you know that many of the smart devices on the market can run Delphi apps? Join us as we show some of the weird and wonderful devices you can target using RAD Studio. |
| Friday, April 25th, 2025, 12:00pm CST / 5pm UTC |
| Conferences, Groups, And Community – Where to go And Where to be Seen This Year – Ian Barker This year is going to be a very BUSY year for Delphi and C++Builder devs with a bumper crop of conferences and community events to go to. We take your through the top places to visit this year and also show you some of the rich collection of user groups you can join too. |
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