About the Author

Marco Breveglieri is an Italian software and web developer. He started programming when he was 14 and got his first home personal computer, a beloved Commodore 16. There were not a lot of games to play with, so he started writing some simple programs using BASIC language. These included a bare calculator, a fake harmless OS, a text-based adventure game, and a music cassette database. Marco spent a lot of time in front of a white and black screen creating software routines, many of which might have seemed useless to everyone but him.

Going forward—and getting serious—years later he attended secondary school focusing on computer science, continuing that learning path and taking his first steps from BASIC to Pascal and C++. He earned his diploma and left school saying, “I am so sick, I don’t want to see another line of Pascal code!” Then he met Delphi, and he loved it. Cosmic irony.

In 1999, Marco started working for a software company using Delphi and its Object Pascal language to create HMI/SCADA industrial desktop applications for the Windows platform, expanding its knowledge to the emerging world of Web applications.

In 2003, he joined his former schoolmates Alessandro and Luca to start ABLS Team, an IT company that offers software development services for a wide range of systems, from desktop platforms to Web technologies. Their services include mobile devices, programming training courses, consultancy, and tutoring.

Today Marco continues to work on the ABLS Team, using Delphi to create desktop applications for Windows and Mac OS and mobile applications for Android and iOS. He also uses Visual Studio to build websites and applications leveraging the Microsoft Web stack based on the .NET Framework. He often takes part in technical conferences and holds training courses about programming with all these tools, especially Delphi, C# and the Web standards HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.

Last but not least, in his spare time Marco hosts an Italian podcast about Delphi programming called Delphi Podcast, and teaches programming to kids at his local CoderDojo.