Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #124
05 Sep
- A bunch of guys here on the R&D team are hard at work putting together their CodeRage 4 presentations. Most of the talks will concentrate on the new things you can do with RAD Studio 2010, including new IDE and VCL features. If you haven’t registered yet, I’d strongly recommend that you do so.
- The RAD Studio 2010 Reviewers Guide is up.
- The Delphi tag over at StackOverflow has now blown right through 2000 questions. And while you are there, see if you can’t see an Embarcadero ad or two.
- Dennis Gurock and his guys over at Gurock Software have released a version of SmartInspect that his ready for RAD Studio 2010.
- Kim Madsen at Components4Developers seems to like Delphi 2010: “D2010 is just so much faster than the last several Delphi releases, that its an absolute joy to use.”
Embarcadero ads on Stack Overflow? GREAT! Looks like Embarcadero gets a grip on the marketing efforts
September 5th, 2009 at 1:20 pmCongrats on making Delphi 2010 release a big hit!
I hope you’ll be able to release Delphi 2011 around the same time next year. In that regard, please note:
1. NASM 2.07 switched to Simplified BSD License (no longer GPL)
2. LLVM/Clang (backed by Apple) seems likely to replace GCC in FreeBSD and is improving rapidly
They both have a very permissive license, so I hope CodeGear can leverage them to make Delphi or C++Builder 64-bit sooner.
I’ve had some success in running Delphi "server" programs in Linux using WINE. So I’m much more anxious about 64-bit schedule. I need to produce 64-bit DLL’s ASAP because 32-bit DLL’s don’t work the same way when loaded by 64-bit MSVC programs.
Good luck on bringing 64-bit to Delphi 2011. And please leverage "permissive" licensed open source projects to save time whenever possible.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:24 pmI agree with Rich.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pmBy the way it seems the adverts are visible only if you are browsing Delphi related questions, are you targeting only existing customers for updating their older Delphi or what? Make some for .NET tags
Oh almost forgot, I like the adverts
Not seeing ads.
But also as Pani said, you definitely must put ads for other tags. Some examples:
- vb.net
- windows
- database
- windows-vista
etc.
Go to http://www.stackoverflow.com/ and have a look at the tags in bold in the right part of the site and choose from there what makes sense.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:04 pmIf you’re paying for ads on stackoverflow, I think you should have icons on all embarcadero- or Delphi-related tags, like Adobe has on Flash/Flex/Actionscript.
Check out the tags on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash for example.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:38 am