A few weeks ago, I sent emails to friends, family members, co-workers, and educators asking them what they wanted more of. I asked what they need more of, craved more of, would like to have more of, to hope for more of, and what they dream for more of. I did not set any specific context for their replies. Some chose to focus on personal wants. Others listed the "want more" in their professional career.
For the month of July I am going to blog about some of "more" thoughts and lists I received from everyone. Each day there will be a different "more". Feel free to post comments with your "more(s)" too.
July 1, 2011 - Want more food
"Please, sir, I want some more." These are words that Oliver spoke to Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Oliver was asking for more food. One of you told me you wanted more cupcakes. A few respondents said they wanted to go out to dinner more often. Many of you said you dreamed of the day when there would be more more starvation in our world. I hope for that too - sooner rather than later.
In our programming world, our source code, our thoughts, our designs, and our architectures are our food. We have a cornucopia of ways to design and build our software. Let’s use the the power of software to help end world hunger.
There are several great web sites and web applications that help everyone donate money, time, and clicks to end starvation. My favorite NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon along with AARP, and the AARP Foundation are working together to help end senior citizen hunger in America at http://drivetoendhunger.org. Another great web application is on the Hunger Site where you can click a button each day and the sponsors will give a cup of food.
If programming was the food of life - then we have so many great programming languages to fill our plates. It’s great that some of the software we build can help put an end to hunger.
What do you want more of?
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I had to think on this a little.
Speaking for myself, I can’t think of a lot of things that I want or need more of. personally and professionally, I’m a pretty happy guy. Life is good.
As for food (and I like my food), the most enjoyment I get from a meal is sharing it with with friends and family. Whether it’s the Post Conference Steak House Hunt ™ at Morton’s or questionable street food at 2:00 AM; It’s always better with good company.
There are things I want for other people (some of which might spark a fierce debate on ideology). I think it would be hard to argue against helping to prevent hunger and the problems associated with it. Great suggestion.
I love street food - especially in New York. The night market in Taipei is awesome as well.
I want more …. no, i only want to continue make my programs in delphi and not migrate to other tools and bla, bla bla ………. I need a tool (delphi) for programing in web, in iphones, in android in linux … but i want only one. Yes, i know, it is not easy.
Vincente - stay in touch with us. We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). Our roadmap on EDN (and in our RAD Studio XE launch slides last Fall) also lists client and server development for Macintosh, Linux, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7.
I also had to think about it. Currently I’m living in a country where food is taken granted. Only about 70 years ago the situation was completely different. Today we think that we have huge problems like e.g. our currency but compared to other people in other countries it is nothing.
Just to get back to the technical stuff, I heard for the first time that Delphi will be able to build for iOS this year.
Provide what is planned working things will turn out fine. Working tools mean happy ‘looting’ and lots of carrots in Bunnyville … IOs would be welcome … but it is not a must.
Bunny
Serious? If it come along with a 64Bit compiler/VCL - it’s pretty nice news…
And since no news had come from the buyout of KSDev, say, are you Embarcadero cooking something cool out of it?
So ask the blog engine guys to make your (David Intersimone) posts in a very different color/formatting/appearance modification that anyone can tell without reading that’s you.
Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror blog and StackOverflow co-founder fame) do this for years in his CodingHorror blog. It can’t that difficult.
I want c style language in Delphi. Programmer spent lot time on modification of source code. All these begin/end/then words made D/language clumsy and redundant. I knew this gonna start a war on syntax of which one is better, symbols or words in language? Well, if it is a war, that means we got two different groups on different sides. Why doesn’t Delphi offer options cover two sides?
Roman - I am just back from vacation. I wanted to follow up on your comment (question?) about when different technologies might be delivered. The roadmap and our RAD Studio Vision slides have many different technologies and platforms listed. These are our goals. As always, products and their features will ship when they are ready. Stay tuned to EDN and Embarcadero’s web site for additional details about our products and their capabilties.
Thats a interesting news David . Hoping to see Delphi Everywhere
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