Remote Object Persistence with Parse and Kinvey

New BaaS components introduced in RAD Studio XE6 now make it easily to use remote data storage services offered by Kinvey and Parse along with Push notifications, File Storage and user authentication.

This can greatly reduce the infrastructure that you need to code, develop and manage with your application which speeds up time to market for including these features and can drastically reduce cost.

In the typical RAD, Object Orientated style there are a set of new interfaces behind the scenes that are implemented by new provider components that hook into the core components that work across providers, allowing you to code this effort once and work with it over Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

In this short introduction video you will see how to work with the remote data store as an object persistence layer, learn about the new TBackendObjectList that contains the objects along with TBackendEntityValue to give you unique ID’s for each object without having to code that yourself, which is very cool indeed!

The video uses demo code that is in code central, submission 29846. NOTE: You will need to have a Kinvey or Parse account to use the demo, but a suitable accounts is quick and free to setup.

OpenSSL and InterBase = all is OK!

I am sure many of you have seen in the news this week the well publicised vulnerability in OpenSSL that has been named Heartbleed. https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt and http://heartbleed.com/

InterBase is not affected by this issue. InterBase encryption uses OpenSSL versions that are NOT affected by this vulnerability.

For more information on InterBase please visit http://www.embarcadero.com/products/InterBase

InterBase XE3 update 4 released

We are proud to announce InterBase XE3 Update 4 is now available for download for registered users: http://cc.embarcadero.com/reg/interbase

New platform on XE3!

Along with the regular speed improvements, bug fixes etc, this release also brings the InterBase Linux engine up to XE3 from the previous InterBase XE edition.

Full details of what is contained in the update are available in the readme. http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/IBXE3Update4/Readme.html

InterBase XE3 versions

If you are developing business applications, InterBase gives a real edge around data security and best practice in data protection across all supported platforms, including mobile.

InterBase XE3 Update 4 – editions includes

Server Edition Desktop Edition ToGo and IBLite (embeddable)
  • Windows (32bit & 64bit)
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Windows (32bit & 64bit)
  • Mac OS X
  • iOS Simulator and Device
  • Android

There is an Update/Patch installer for existing installations of InterBase XE3 Server/Desktop/Developer Edition on Windows. Trial editions will be updated soon.

Embedding InterBase

The quick guide for ToGo has also been updated and is available here http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/IBXE3Update4/ToGoQuickStart/Introduction.htm or if you prefer video’s check out InterBase Labs

Why InterBase?

If you want to know more about why customers are upgrading to the latest versions of InterBase and using InterBase in their current applications please read this Mobilising Enterprise Data – free white paper and also visit the InterBase pages

RAD lectures at Jyväskylä University, Finland

Last week I was on the road again, this time visiting Finland for customer meetings but mainly to lecture and help with student lab time at Jyväskylä University. This trip was part of our commitment towards education and arranged by the local partner for Delphi and C++ Builder in Finland, Moonsoft@MoonsoftOy

Jyväskylä is about 4 hours drive from Helsinki and so I’m told the heart of a technical area where a lot of Nokia is based, so it was kind of fun to show off the Nokia X with Delphi App running that I picked up in Barcelona.

The lecture was hosted both in the university and streamed live and was the follow on to a number of sessions run earlier in the year by Juha Piispa from Moonsoft. After the lecture in the morning I had the pleasure of lunch with the dean before looking at some really old hardware, including what I was told was Finland’s first super computer and a massive IBM hard drive from before I was even born! Kind of geeky cool; before heading to the labs, where we had not 1 but 4 labs booked out (around 50 PCs) with students working together through a number of tutorials on http://docwiki.embarcadero.com learning about Visual LiveBindings, FireDAC and also the base language capabilities before running the output to both Windows preview and Android emulators / devices.

Unfortunately, I was so focused on what I was doing I forgot to take a load of pictures!