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TurboPower Poll Results

07 Oct

Here’s a chart showing the results of the poll I took on what TurboPower projects are of interest to you. (You can certainly still take the poll if you want, but the trends are pretty clear by now…)
Seems that a lot more of you than I would have guessed are using AsyncPro.  I was also [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #129

18 Sep

Nice writeup about Delphi 2010 in Dr. Dobbs.  Money quote:  “And even with all the views activated, the IDE response remained lightning fast throughout my hours of testing it for this review.” (Thanks to Marco for the tweet pointing me to this article….)
Alex Ciobanu works in our Iasi, Romania office as a document writer, and [...]

Cool Stuff with Delphi #28

12 Sep

PowerArchiver 2010
“PowerArchiver 2010 offers hundreds of features, yet remains easy to use, small and fast. Novice users will find a familiar interface complete with tutorial and detailed help, while more experienced users can take advantage of full Explorer integration, multiple encryption methods and advanced compression algorithms.”
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What are your favorite GExperts features?

11 Sep

If you are a GExperts user, I’m interested in knowing what your five favorite features of that outstanding Delphi Add-in are.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=adxkD_2bIluwT5FgQf8bwSag_3d_3d
It’s a nice, short (two question) survey. Please take the minute or two to fill it out if you care to.
Thanks very much.
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Aspect Oriented Programming with Delphi Prism

09 Sep

I’ve created a short, eleven minute video showing the basics of Aspect Oriented Programming with Delphi Prism.  AOP is a really cool, powerful, and easy to use language feature of Delphi Prism.
You can read more about AOP  and how it works on Wikipedia.  You can read more about the specifics of Aspect Oriented Programming [...]

QC-based Features in RAD Studio 2010

25 Aug

There have been a bunch of sneak peaks and blog posts and a lot of attention paid to some of the “flagship” features in Delphi 2010 like Gestures, DataSnap, Firebird connectivity, IDE Insight, the Code Formatter, and more.  Cool stuff, to be sure (and you can find out more about all of these cool things [...]

CodeRage 4 – September 8 – 11, 2009

13 Aug

Christine Ellis just posted this on our newsgroups:
Hosted on the Embarcadero Developer Network, CodeRage is four full days of 100% online technical sessions focused on software development and data management issues which you can attend from wherever you like to log in.  It’s bringing you top industry speakers, technologists, and industry practitioners to present on [...]

RAD Studio 2010 — IDE Features: "Old School" Tool Palette

06 Aug

Okay, I’m a big fan of the new tool palette – and I’ve said so pretty often.  I find the new one very, very powerful and very, very easy to use, and I find it somewhat mysterious that some folks don’t prefer it.  But many of you have disagreed, so now, back by popular demand, [...]

Cool Stuff with Delphi #28

16 Jul

Discover for Delphi
Nice code coverage and analysis tool for Delphi projects, and of course it is built with Delphi.
Discover is an analysis tool that allows you to measure how thoroughly your programs have been tested.
Discover shows interactively and directly in the source code which basic-blocks (code sequences that always execute sequentially) have been executed at [...]

Word of the Day: BOGO

01 Jul

The new word around here is BOGO – or Buy On, Get One.  Free that is.  Right now, if you buy any Embarcadero product, you can get a different Embarcadero product of equal or lesser value for free.  That’s right – Free. As in no additional money.  As in register your purchased product, get the [...]

A New Role for Nick

14 Apr

There have been some changes around here and as a result, I have a new job within Embarcadero.  I am now an R&D Manager on the RAD Studio team, working more closely with the development team to ensure that we deliver a feature rich, stable, high-quality product.  I’ll be writing feature specifications, managing the development [...]

Ten Things That Really Bug Me

13 Apr

I was cleaning up my hard drive and I found lying around in an old HTML file.  The date on the file was from April of 2006, before I came to CodeGear.  I can’t remember if I ever put this up on a blog somewhere, but I thought it was a pretty good rant, so [...]

Your Thoughts on Third-parties

09 Jan

Attention Delphi Third-party Fanboys!
Our intrepid Delphi Product Marketing Manager, Tim Del Chiaro, has put together some surveys about third-party support for our products, what the best ones are, who you like, etc.
Delphi - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GBvpD4z7nfeovw53WM5_2bYw_3d_3d
C++Builder - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UAw1LpTD5xe6u3BeEg1qsA_3d_3d
Delphi Prism - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=u0MuvK9Qikvc97_2bzA4W1QA_3d_3d
So jump on over and let us know what you think.
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Green Programming

07 Jan

Hey, I thought my answer was pretty good!
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Off Topic: Pandora, RIAA, and Buying Music

10 Nov

I’m a huge fan of Pandora.  If you haven’t discovered it yet, Pandora is a music streaming service that has a terrific knack for playing music that you like.  You can create stations simply be telling them one of your favorite artists, and then they start playing music from that artist, and then music similar [...]

A Picture

26 Oct

 
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Delphi 2009 Wordle

21 Aug

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Newsgroups, forums, NNTP, and the Web.

09 Aug

As many of you have noticed, our newsgroups have gone down pretty hard.  We get them back up, they stay up for a while, and then they crash again.  The machine and the software is showing it’s age.
Fortunately, John Kaster and his team had already been in the process of a completely new solution for [...]

Built with Delphi for PHP

28 Jul

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My email address

24 Jul

In about a week, my old email address — nick.hodges@borland.com — will no longer work.  So if that is the address you have for me, please use nick.hodges@codegear.com instead.  Eventually I’ll have an Embarcadero email address, but the codegear.com address should continue to work for a long time to come.
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The Programming Book Business

02 May

I’ve blogged about this before — the programming book industry continues to fascinate me. Jeff Atwood comments this week on it, talking about how "The Internet has rendered programming books obsolete."  Lately, there has been a resurgence of Delphi books, lead by Marco Cantu and others, but these guys are not using traditional book publishing [...]

Help Update #3 is out

28 Apr

If you have your IDE set to check for updates, you should know by now that Help Update #3 is out — and this should be a good update.  There should be loads of new content in the VCL section, and improvements throughout.
If you don’t have the IDE set to automatically check for updates, then [...]

Cool Stuff with Delphi #19

03 Apr

FL Studio
 
"FL Studio is the most complete virtual studio currently available. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi) or midi instrument you feed it."
I’m told that they get 5,000,000 downloads a year — pretty slick.
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Elite Suite for Intraweb and VCL for the Web is now Open source

09 Mar

Gleaned this from the newsgroups:
We have an important announcement for customers of our Intraweb components and for the greater Delphi/Intraweb community:
Effective immediately, Arcana Technologies (www.arcanatech.com) has terminated sales of the Elite Suite for Intraweb and VCL for the Web and released [...]

Toronto Delphi Users Group — March 3

29 Feb

TDUG  meeting Monday, March 3
(www.tdug.com)
A continuation of the Jan 23 presentation on the significant additions to Delphi since Delphi 7
Topics (Among others) 1. Demonstrate more refactoring 2. Demonstrate how to customize help insight 3. Use class helpers to [...]

The Delphi Survey in Russian

26 Feb

The Delphi Survey is now available in Russian!
The main article about the survey is here.
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Delphi Job Opportunity in New York

22 Feb

Here is a Delphi job opening in New York City:
This position is for a prestigious financial services firm in NYC - it can be either long-term consulting or full-time. 
Experienced Delphi developer who has worked in creating Windows based applications rich in user interface and server side applications that process data for middle office operations. [...]

Survey Update

12 Feb

The Delphi Survey is now available in German.
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2008 Delphi Survey Update

06 Feb

Thanks to all of you who have completed the Delphi Survey.  We really appreciate it.
I’ve updated the article to include links to some translated versions of the survey.  We now have:
Japanese Version
Portuguese Version
Spanish Version
Traditional Chinese Version
Simplified Chinese Version
Korean Version
Turkish Version
These are, of course, in addition to the English Version.
Some notes on the survey:
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CodeGear in Russia

01 Feb

This is a nice piece of news:  CodeGear products will be used by over a million Russian students.
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