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Fabrizio Bitti
19 anni di esperienza nel settore dell'ICT. Dopo il diploma di Perito Tecnico Industriale con specializzazione in Informatica, comincia la sua carriera professionale come programmatore per diverse realtà  del calibro di Olivetti, specializzandosi nella programmazione con i linguaggi C++, C e Java e nell'utilizzo degli allora prodotti Borland (oggi Embarcadero). Nel 1996 decide di trasferirsi in Inghilterra dove lavora in IBM UK ltd e DST International, occupandosi di importanti progetti per il London Stock Exchange, sviluppando applicativi per il settore finance e acquisendo skill sia tecnici che funzionali in ambito finanziario. Tornato in Italia, dopo qualche anno di collaborazione con software house italiane, nel 2002 inizia la sua avventura fondando bit Time Software, di cui attualmente ne è C.E.O..

Marco Cantù
Marco Cantù is the author of over a dozen books on Delphi, from the first versions up to the latest one with his Delphi 2010 Handbook. Besides writng. Marco is a consultant and trainer and had given classes on Delphi for many years and around the world. Recently, he's focused on Web 2.0, REST and Cloud-based technologies, using XML, XSTL, JSON and a lot of JavaScript. Marco lives in Italy and has a popular blog at blog.marcocantu.com.

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Delphi REST and Cloud clients

From Google to Amazon, from Microsoft to Yahoo, from Facebook to Twitter, most large web site offer a REST API, and Delphi can easily query all of them. This talks provides an overview of several REST client APIs, showing how to integrate database data and web applications and how to take advantage of Cloud computing. Specific focus will be given also to the specific and native Azure support in the product. Difficulty level: 1

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Migrating Delphi Applications to Unicode

This talk has two sides. it first introduces what Unicode is (a topic most programmers know very little about) and then delve in how Delphi 2009 supports Unicode, by means of UnicodeString type, UTF8String type, TEncoding, and the like. I'll also focus on performance issues (and there are a few) and portability of existing Delphi code. Difficulty level: 2

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Using JavaScript and Delphi REST Servers

This session coveres the development of web applications in Delphi using a JavaScript client layer and a Delphi backend, based on the REST support in DataSnap. I'll jQuery and its DataTables plugin grid, and also specifically focus on the new RESt and JavaScript support features introduce in the last version of Delphi. Difficulty level: 2

Marco Cotroneo
Marco Cotroneo, Software Developer di bit Time Software, ha una pluriennale esperienza nel mondo ICT. Utilizza tendenzialmente prodotti Embarcadero sia per lo sviluppo che per quello che concerne l'ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). In bitTime, si occupa essenzialmente delle sviluppo di applicazione win32, con l'utilizzo di Delphi, e dei corsi base su Delphi. Abbraccia la filosofia object-oriented e le metotlogie agili, promuovendo in particolare l'utilizzo di design pattern e continuos integration.

Primož Gabrijelčič
Primož Gabrijelčič is a long-time Delphi programmer working with Delphi since its inception (and even before, since Turbo Pascal 3 days). Besides his professional programming career, he writes for programming/computer oriented magazines (The Delphi Magazine, Monitor, Blaise Pascal Magazine) and is frequent contributor to the Delphi community. In the past few years his focus stays mainly on parallel programming and high availability server solutions. He's also an avid blogger, publishing his thoughts on Delphi programming at www.thedelphigeek.com.

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Parallel programming made easy

The presentation will discuss the parallel programming in Delphi with the help of the open sourced OmniThreadLibrary. The first part of the presentation will list parallel programming tools available to the Delphi users and the second part will show the use of high-level programming OmniThreadLibrary features (parallel for, futures). The session will conclude with a discussion of DOs and DON'Ts of parallel programming. Difficulty level: 2

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Building multithreaded solutions with OmniThreadLibrary

The presentation will take a deeper look at the parallel programming in Delphi. We will first focus on the parallel programming building blocks (threads, synchronization, communication) and will show positive and negative side of each approach. Then we'll take a look at the parallel programming primitives in the OmniThreadLibrary and how they can help building simple or complicated multithreaded solutions. Difficulty level: 3

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FastMM in depth

The presentation will start with an introduction to memory management in general. The second (larger) part will introduce FastMM memory manager, explain its implementation and gave a detailed overview of its functions with the focus on troubleshooting memory allocation problems. Difficulty level: 3

Luca Giacalone
Pluriennale esperienza in sviluppo di applicazioni web. Esperto di integrazione con SOA tra Delphi e PHP con servizi REST

Cary Jensen
Cary Jensen is President of Jensen Data Systems, Inc., a company that provides computer software training, consulting, mentoring, and development services. He is an award-winning, best-selling co-author of nineteen books and he is a popular speaker at conferences, workshops, and training seminars throughout North America and Europe. Cary has a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from Rice University, specializing in human-computer interaction.

Ray Konopka
Ray Konopka founded Raize Software, Inc. in 1995. Today, he serves as Raize Software's President as well as Chief Architect for the company's award winning CodeSite and Raize Components products. Ray is also the author of the highly acclaimed "Developing Custom Delphi Components" books and has published numerous magazine articles on software development. Ray specializes in user interface design and custom VCL and .NET component development, and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences in North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Effective User Interface Designs

As software developers, we all know the importance of an application's user interface, but all too often the user interface gets the least amount of attention. Most developers would rather work on the behind-the-scenes programming bits. To some extent this is understandable, as many developers equate user interface design with graphics design and the creation of pretty icons and images. The goal of this session is to illustrate that user interface design is not the same as graphics design and more importantly needs the attention of all developers. Throughout this session a set of user interface guidelines will be presented that apply to virtually any type of application: desktop, web, mobile, etc. In addition, specific attention will be given to user interface design traps that developers often encounter, and how to avoid them.

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Advanced RTTI in Delphi

Runtime Type Information (RTTI) has always been a core feature of Delphi. Unfortunately, the RTTI interface is somewhat complex and limited. This has all changed with Delphi 2010. RTTI in Delphi 2010 is significantly more powerful than previous versions, and yet much easier to use as well. This session will describe in detail all of the changes that have been made and demonstrate the new capabilities with several examples including field inspection, method invocation, and custom attributes.

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Developing Custom VCL Component Designers

This session focuses on enhancing the design-time interface of a component by creating custom design editors. Specifically, you will learn the details of creating custom property editors, component editors, and other design-time elements. In addition, through several examples, you will see how these building blocks can be used to dramatically enhance the usability of a component.

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Creating Composite VCL Controls

This session investigates the various techniques involved in creating composite controls including manual creation, component templates, frame components, and sub-components. Along the way, guidelines for the effective use of each technique will be presented along with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Creating a composite control is one of the more popular component building activities. The process involves embedding multiple components into a single container, and although the task does not appear to be complicated, there are many important issues that must be addressed by the component writer when creating a composite control. For example, who should own the embedded components: the owner or the container? How do you surface properties and events of the embedded components? When it is necessary to create a drop area? Can you visually create a composite control? The VCL has supported composite controls since its inception, but over the years, there have been several features added to the VCL to make building composite controls easier-some were successful; others were not. This session investigates the various techniques involved in creating composite controls including manual creation, component templates, frame components, and sub-components. Along the way, guidelines for the effective use of each technique will be presented along with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Debora Mizzoni
Debora Mizzoni dopo una laurea in Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni è entrata nel mondo dell'IT. Lavora da sempre in progetti host e client-server. Attualmente si occupa di consulenza web, presentazione di prodotti Embarcadero e corsi di formazione su Delphi4PHP. Ha partecipato in qualità  di speaker in manifestazioni come il Delphi day ed altre conferenze organizzate da bit Time Software.

Paolo Rossi

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Applicazioni Web 2.0 con Delphi ed ExtJS

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Sencha Touch: The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework

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Database NoSQL

José León Serna
José León founded qadram software S.L. in 2003, a company focused on custom software development and specialized in open source customizations. In 2007, qadram software S.L. partnered with CodeGear to jointly develop and market Delphi for PHP, based on an existing product called qstudio. Today, he alternates the role of CEO with the role of Chief Architect for Delphi for PHP.

Salvatore Sparacino
Salvatore Sparacino è senior software developer in bitTime software, ha una pluriennale esperienza nell'IT con una profonda conoscenza delle applicazioni client/server in ambiente delphi.

Daniele Teti
Daniele Teti è R&D Director & Educational di bit Time Software, rappresentanza italiana di Embarcadero Technologies.Ha una pluriennale esperienza nel mondo ICT. Collabora con diversi progetti Open Source per la comunità  di sviluppatori Delphi e PHP.E' stato speaker a molte delle conferenze italiane che parlano di Delphi, PHP e dei prodotti Embarcadero. E' inoltre un convinto sostenitore della progettazione tramite design pattern e del TDD. Scrive frequentemente articoli pubblicati on-line e su diverse riviste Italiane. Nella sua attività educativa (attraverso i corsi di formazione erogati da bit Time) assegna largo spazio all'esposizione dei concetti relativi ai design pattern e alle SOA.