Delphi version 1.0 was launched at the Software Development Conference on February 14, 1995. The several thousand developers gave the team a standing ovation during the launch. This year we are celebrating 17 years of continuous innovation for the Delphi language, run-time library, Visual Component Library (VCL), database connectivity, application architectures, IDE, tool [...]
"Ain’t no mountain high enough. Ain’t no valley low enough. Ain’t no river wide enough. To keep me from getting to you." The lyrics, from the song written by Ashford and Simpson, keep telling me that there is nothing that can stop advance of computer software, developer tools, and operating platforms.
"Climb Every Mountain", the song in [...]
Today is July 14, 2011. It’s Bastille Day in France. This morning I got up at 3:30am to watch Stage 12 of the 2011 Tour de France. Stage 12 was the first stage to enter the mountains of the Pyrenees which are on the border of France and Spain. The stage 12 winner was Samuel Sanchez from [...]
Quintus Arrius, in the movie Ben Hur, implores the rowers to give him "Battle speed!… Attack speed!… Ramming speed!" On October 15, 1997, the rocket powered car, ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, set a world land speed record of 763 mph. ThrustSSC is the first car to break the sound barrier on land. The qote, "I feel [...]
Today, we put up the first preview video (also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJi9WsnHKiw) for the upcoming release of RAD Studio XE, Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE and RadPHP XE. This is just the start of a worldwide journey that we will be taking with you. You will see additional videos, blog posts, articles, [...]
The wonderful team at the C++Builder Developer’s Journal have produced a free, open issue focusing on some new features in C++Builder 2010. The electronic version is available for download (on EDN’s CodeCentral) at http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/27769 (3mb zip containing a PDF file).
The special issue (C++Builder Developer’s Journal volume 14 number 5) contains:
Bob Swart opens the issue [...]
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