Tiburon News, Information, and Sneak Peeks
08 Aug
Lots of information starting to roll in on Tiburon.
- Marco Cantu has a series of videos on what he’s been doing with Tiburon — 1, 2, 3, 4
- We’ve started publishing a series of short "sneak peaks" on what is coming up in Tiburon. First Delphi one is "What’s New in the VCL in Delphi and C++Builder 2009". Be sure to sign up to be notified about new ones.
- Julian Bucknall has some comments. A summary might be "Fast install, compiled EZDSL without a hitch".
- Get Ready for Delphi 2009 and Unicode from Jan Goyvaerts. He also talks about the new UTF8String.
- Craig Stuntz is talking about Generics and Anonymous Methods.
Would like to have my hands on Tiburon NOW
August 8th, 2008 at 8:55 amYeah, me too :), I wanna Delphi 2009 Personal!
August 8th, 2008 at 10:01 am…a Turbo Edition would be fine as well
August 8th, 2008 at 10:21 amMight be nice to have a notice here that the newsgroups are down since yesterday
August 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am@dag,
yes, that’s quite annoying. I would even put this on top of CodeGear website as latest news or sthg similar.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:54 amYup, definitely think there should be a very prominent announcement on the codegear site about the newsgroups being down.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:43 amGreat … so it isn’t just me - that both can’t connect to the NGs and finds it annoying that there’s nowhere to find the NG status. Maybe a Red/Green traffic signal [or some other indicator] here:
August 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pmhttp://support.codegear.com/newsgroups/directory
would do.
Looks like they are back, but the server is now forums.codegear.com, so if you were pointed at forums.borland.com or newsgroups.borland.com that requires a newsreader configuration change.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pmAnd we are still waiting… for unicode, for generics, for crossplatform. And now is 2008! That’s why almost all developers gone for other development tools. Ok, maybe that was bad inprise, borland decisions, maybe. But now it’s the same, we don’t know when tiburon will be available. We are waiting, waiting and waiting. And more and more people says delphi is dead, dead, dead. I think better is to make much more buggy updates, than wait unknown time for realease (witch will be buggy too). I think delphi is for developers who want good native (and crossplatform) compiler and ide. Why .net? I don’t think delphi will be better then c# for .net anyway. Those people who likes delphi is native code, database etc. developers. And that was always delphi strong point. Until version 6-7. And i hate when more and more people says to me that delphi is dead, bullshit etc. But this is true. I’m experienced programmer, made a lot ring0 code, translated many headers from c++ (full vnc, dokan etc) and still everyday i hear talks about why c, c++, c# is much better than delphi… Most awfull thing is that they are right. For example when i need to write apache module i can use freepascal. Why not delphi? And why i can use delphi to write some bullshit, like slow .net app? (i can use much better tools for this like c#, ahhh maybe you want to compete with micro$oft free tools). This is true mistery for me. I was all the time delphi fan. But now i’m on crossroad… and making decission wait unknown time for tiburon or go to some c++. And i fear that even for very large project second decission will be faster and better choise than first.
Sorry for my english.
Old delphi fan.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pmlast –
I can’t tell you when Tiburon will be available.
I can say that in the past, a product’s release has come pretty soon after we started publicly talking about the products.
Nick
August 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm