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Marco Cantù
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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki
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Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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Modeling data

The uToDoTypes unit is where we can add data types that are shared between the UI and the data access module. To achieve a proper level of separation between the UI and the data access logic, we should define the interface for communication between the two tiers of the application. The data module will implement it and the main form of the application should use this interface as the only way to communicate with the data module. In this way, we have true plugin architecture. The UI can be developed independently, and we can provide different implementations of data access logic without affecting the rest of the application. Our data-driven app could be using different types of embedded databases and different data access frameworks, or maybe later we would want to switch to storing our data in a plain file or cloud storage.

The ToDoList app will be dealing with todo items, so it makes perfect sense to declare in the common types unit a type that will represent a single...

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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
Read more about Paweł Głowacki