Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #89
22 Oct
- Hey, I have a new goal: to get Delphi added to refactormycode.com. So I emailed the guy who runs the site, and he kindly responded with this:
I’m glad you like my site. Delphi is not currently supported by the tool I use for syntax highlighting (http://ultraviolet.rubyforge.org/). Only the syntax listed on http://refactormycode.com/help/code as supported atm.
If you can create a syntax for Delphi I might add it.
But I usually add language that is already used on the site but does not have a tab (language) yet. But I haven’t seen anyone requesting or using Delphi on the site.
So it sounds like some one out there that knows Ruby will need to write a syntax highlighter for Delphi and add it to that project. Anyone up for the job? And feel free to request that Delphi gets added to the site. 
- David I will be in Frankfurt next week for EKON 12. So will Barry Kelly and Danny Magin. I’ve been the past three or four years, and always have a great time. However, this year I’m not going because I’ll be at PDC that week. Keep your eyes open for some interesting announcements from us during the conference.
- Speaking of PDC, I hear rumors of a Delphi flash mob at PDC — that sounds like a great idea to me. Let me know the details!
- From Jeff Duntemann: Amazing pictures of the sun.
What would a "Delphi flash mob" do exactly at PDC?
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 amKevin,
Get together, talk about Delphi and the new Delphi for .Net solutions?
Nick
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 amCount me in on that Delphi for .Net discussion.
The UltraViolet page has a link to supported language syntaxes, including Pascal. That could be a good a good starting point.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 amThe PDC flashmob is just the idea of all the Delphi developers meeting up at the Opens Spaces area to discuss Delphi.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 amFor a second I had this fleeting image of a crowd of mostly nekkid Delphi Developers in TurboMan capes running around and frantically searching for a Dr.Deadline to meet… Thank God a second only last that long…
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 amThe way this goes, Delphi developers will invade the traditional RPG games arena with a CodeGear RPG System (with books, dices, and all-that-RPG-stuff)…
And, of course, the CodeGear store would sell a Narrator Pack with an Narrator support app to do map and char attributes management, calculations and blablabla…
(I heard of one app of that kind for D&D years ago, never got my hands on it)…
And the Lars nightmare will be realized: conventions with live-action RPG matches, fully cosplayed, of course…
I swear: I am not drunk…. LOL
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:09 pmCount me in.
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 pmWho is Ruby, and why will I need to know her to write a syntax highlighter for Delphi?
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 pmGetting from Frankfurt to the EuroDevCon/EKON conference location in Mainz is about half an hour in off-peak traffic
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 amMore well known speakers will be presenting: http://it-republik.de/eurodevcon/speaker/
It’ll be fun to be there again, as EuroDevCon/EKON conference is well organized, has a good line-up of speakers, good food and a nice ‘after hours’ program.
An added benefit is that at the same venue and time, the Ajax in Action and International PHP conference will take place.
Always good to take a peek at what fellow colleagues are doing!
Ah, Nick, it would help if CodeGear release an (exaustive and 100% complete) Object Pascal BNF Grammar. With absolutely *all* the possible combinations accepted by Delphi compiler.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:36 amLooks to me like the Pascal grammar already in ultraviolet supports FP, which will be good enough for displaying Delphi as HTML.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:49 amIt uses a grammar for defining highlighters that originates from a text editor on the Mac. See the UV page for more info.
Should be easy to take an existing grammar for FP (FreePascal) that I read above it has and work on it. BTW, I vote for the BNF too (there are XML formats for it)
November 11th, 2008 at 7:36 am