What is the #1 most ownloaded System utility at CNet? Advanced SystemCare Free. Why do I tell you this? Because it is built with Delphi, that’s why!
Now here is a headline you love to see: “The future of Delphi looks brighter than ever before.”
CodeProject is a pretty cool site with a lot of good stuff [...]
Be sure to take advantage of a great offer: Upgrade to Delphi or C++Builder 2009 and get a free upgrade to RAD Studio. That’s a tough deal to pass up.
As I’ve raved before, I love StackOverflow. I think it’s a great site for getting answers, and it’s marvellously designed and thought out and avoids many [...]
Some good advice on moving to Delphi 2009. Money quote: “If you want to estimate the amount of work involved to convert a project, note that it is not significant, how many lines of code you have”
Zarko Gajic is a great Delphi community member. He runs the eminently useful delphi.about.com website which is a [...]
The good folks at the Blaise Pascal magazine have published a new special issue that covers all of the Embarcadero products, CodeGear and DatabaseGear products alike. And the cool part is that you can download a PDF of it for free! Pretty cool. It even includes and interview with yours truly, making it even more [...]
Follow folks at DelphiLive on Twitter — #delphilive. We’ve all been getting ready this week – keynotes, product addresses, roadmaps, technical talks, etc. Guys like Barry Kelly, Jim Tierney, Leonel Tognioli, and others have been giving practice briefings, etc. With only a few exceptions, the whole Delphi and C++Builder team will be at the Meet [...]
Delphi Hero of the Week: Roman Kassebaum. Roman has basically single-handedly been updating the TurboPower projects on SourceForge. Roman just popped up out of nowhere (as far as I can tell, anyway….) and started reporting that he had updated a number of the projects for Delphi 2009, including Orpheus, LockBox, Abbrevia, and more. Great work [...]
As if you needed another reason, but attendees of Delphi Live will be able to take advantage of a 20% discount or more on RAD Studio products.
If you are on Twitter, you can now join the Delphi Twibe.
When was the last time any of you selected “File|New|Other|Delphi Projects|MDI Application?
Congratulations to the three new [...]
The new Delphi Product Manager is…… <drum roll>…… Mike Rozlog! Mike is a very capable guy, loves Delphi, and is really good on the business side of things. I’m really happy that Delphi is in his capable and skilled hands. Please be sure to give Mike a warm welcome to the new job.
I just [...]
Issam Ali has a new Delphi plugin — AppManifest Application Manifest for Delphi2009/2007
The number of questions with the “delphi” tag just went past 1100 at stackoverflow.com. If you aren’t keeping an eye on stackoverflow.com, you are missing out on a really cool site. Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have done an excellent job of [...]
I attended the Software Industry Conference last year – it was really fun and very valuable. There were a lot of Delphi developers there, since Delphi is a great choice for ISV and Micro ISV application development. David I went two years ago. This years conference is already on the calendar, and I’d recommend it. [...]
If you missed DataRage, you can watch the replays online. For all you Delphi and C++Builder guys, this is a great opportunity to see how the DatabaseGear side of the house can really power up your Delphi apps.
There is now a Help update 2 for Delphi 2009. The readme can be found on the [...]
Still a few spots left for the Delphi Developer Days in Washington at the end of March.
The Schedule of Events for the DelphiLive conference is now online. Looks like a great lineup! My personal view is that if you aren’t there, you are going to wish that you were.
Delphi and Delphi Prism R&D Engineer [...]
We are very pleased to announce that for a limited time, Delphi 2009 includes a special version of TMS Software’s Smooth controls. If you buy before March 31, you can get a complete set of these very nice controls for free! So upgrade to Delphi 2009, C++Builder 2009, or RAD Studio 2009 today.
And of [...]
The list of speakers and agenda is up for DelphiLive!. Looks like a star-studded cast of folks giving presentations, including a number of the R&D Engineers from here at Embarcadero. (The guy doing the Delphi Product Address looks particularly handsome.) I can’t think of a reason why a Delphi developer wouldn’t want to be there. [...]
Woohoo! I made it to 100! The first one was all the way back in June of 2006, right after I got here. Looks like I was a bit more chatty back then.
Learn about Class Contracts in Delphi Prism. Class Contracts are one of those cool Delphi Prism features not found on some [...]
Bob Walsh of MicroISV fame had me as a guest on his podcast, which is now available for your listening pleasure. Thanks, Bob!
DelphiDabbler.com has a pretty cool library of code snippets for Delphi.
Are you all aware that 3rdRail is now only $99?
Major Kudos are due to Jim McKeeth, whose [...]
Hey, look who are the stars of Dot Net Rocks this week! Me and marc!
Want to get started with Prism? The Delphi Prism Primer is a good place to do that. Mega-kudos to Christian Stelzmann for writing this and to Mike Orriss for organizing it on the Wiki.
Embarcadero Plus CodeGear Equals RAD Tools [...]
Marco Cantu and Cary Jensen are planning a series of Delphi Developer Days in the US. Should be great events, as both of these guys are experienced developers and presenters. Each event will be two intense days of training. Register in the next two days and get a pretty good discount.
Delphi 2009 now has [...]
Some folks have been asking questions about what the requirements are for posting comments on our blog server. John Kaster put together a nice article on it. Key point: All of our emails are opt-in. We don’t send you emails unless you specifically ask for them.
From 16 December through the 15th of January, the [...]
The Delphi Prism Reviewers Guide is now available.
Also available: A Tour of Delphi 2009 - the latest in our White Paper series.
I’m getting a lot of great feedback about CodeRage III — seems like it was a big success. David I, Anders Ohlsson, Andreano Lanusse, Christine Ellis, and all the presenters [...]
The Delphi Prism Command Line Edition download is now live at http://cc.codegear.com/Free.aspx?id=26256. It’s free as in beer.
And be sure to get your RAD Studio 2009 Trial if you haven’t already had a look.
Cross Platform Delphi is Back.
Don’t miss our new white paper called "Using New Delphi Coding Styles and Architectures: A [...]
CodeRage III is going like gangbusters. Have you signed up yet? It’s not too late — it will be going on all day. And to answer the inevitable question: Yes, all the sessions will be posted online for later viewing.
The latest issue of Blaise Pascal Magazine — Issue #4 — is now available. If [...]
Marco Cantu has written for us a nice white paper on Unicode and Delphi 2009. It is actually part of his forthcoming book Delphi 2009 Handbook. That book will be published on Lulu.com, and a PDF version will be available to registered users of RAD Studio 2009.
Cool new IDE Expert for those of you [...]
Great answer from Bruce McGee. By the way, I love StackOverflow — very, very cool. And remember, you can view just only the stuff with the "delphi’ tag if you want. I note that our very own Barry Kelly has quite a bit of StackOverflow Reputation and frequently answers questions. Nice.
Fun timewaster: Assembler — [...]
Up to #90 already. Anyone got any ideas for a special event for when I hit RTotPS #100?
Next week at PDC, I’ll be doing my best to keep up on Twitter. So if you want to start following me, you can. We’ll see how it goes — hopefully, I won’t be so busy that [...]
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 [...]
CodeRage is back!
I assume that most of you read this blog because you are interested in Delphi Programming. And thus I am doing my part to make sure that Delphi programming gets the recognition it deserves — maybe even "Language of the Year".
I’ve published my phone number before, but because of the migration [...]
The Delphi 2009 Reviewers Guide is now online.
If you are having trouble accessing the newsgroups, do make sure you are pointing your newsreader to forums.codegear.com
A lot of you Delphi guys use Interbase, and the Interbase 2009 team has released Hotfix 1.
I mentioned this last time around, but there is a growing and [...]
And some people were saying that anonymous methods weren’t useful.
Joe Stagner of Microsoft really likes Delphi for PHP. He says "[Delphi for PHP] 2.0 is the REAL DEAL and I LOVE IT !"
Want to help spread the word about Delphi and C++Builder 2009? Here are some cool graphics and banner ads you can use [...]
The tenth spot and four green up arrows — that has to be good, right?
Holger has a good update on what is going on with EKON 12.
Dr. Bob is on top of all the great articles, blogs, examples, etc., out there on Delphi 2009. And he also has a Delphi 2009 version of [...]
