We have published Help Update #1 for the RAD Studio 2010 help. You can find out more at the Developer network. The Help Update should be available through the IDE’s automatic update system. If you have that turned off by default, you can invoke it via the Start menu.
Question: Can you ever really have [...]
Hey, I might not be the Delphi Product Manager any more, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t be going out on the road to see customers and show off RAD Studio 2010! I will be making three tour stops as part of the RAD Studio 2010 Road Show. I’ll be doing the Philadelphia, Raleigh, [...]
First the GOTO was disparaged into oblivion. Then the ‘with’ statement came into the cross-hairs. Is the ‘if’ statement next?
Hey, the CodeRage 4 replays are online – lot of good stuff in there, especially about the new things available for RAD Studio 2010. If you are looking at upgrading, the presentations from CodeRage 4 [...]
Oh, by the way, another good way to get your comments deleted is to use profanity. Should have mentioned that before.
The guys over at Gurock Software have a really cool article called “Working with Delphi’s new Exception.StackTrace” showing how you can get more information about stack traces at runtime.
Want to write an iPhone [...]
We are looking for folks to submit their Unicode migration stories to the Unicode Migration Best Practices Cookbook. If you have a tip or two, or a good story to tell, please let us know and help out the Delphi community. Looks like you might win an iPod Touch if you submit something. You’ll also [...]
Okay, some of you are saying that I’m “blocking comments”. So, let me comment on that. First, this is my blog, and I’ll allow or disallow any comments that I want for any reason at all. Sorry. But having said that, the vast majority of comments come through just fine. Some get caught in [...]
Okay, question: How do I end up with people on my Twitter following list that I know I didn’t put there? I get these people in my Twitter stream that I’ve never heard of, and – surprise!!! – they are spamming me. How does that happen? (Updated: Let me be clearer — I end up [...]
Time is running out on the BOGO deal. Act now and get a free product. This offer will end soon!
Have you ever had the overwhelming desire to embed a game into the Delphi IDE? Well, now you can, as Chris Hesik shows you the new Open Tools APIs to do just that. Or maybe something [...]
The invaluable Pierre LeRiche has updated FastMM “FastMM is a lightning fast replacement memory manager for Borland Delphi Win32 applications that scales well in multi-threaded applications, is not prone to memory fragmentation, and supports shared memory without the use of external .DLL files.” Delphi 2010 uses a pared-down version of FastMM because, well, because Pierre [...]
Ann Lynnworth of href.com has put together a nice little web app that will show you the CodeRage 4 schedule for your time zone.
Cary Jensen has a really nice article about LINQ in Delphi Prism
One talk you won’t want to miss at CodeRage 4 is “Debugging Techniques for Delphi” by Mark Edington. (Yes, Mark is [...]
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.
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Hey, RAD Studio 2010 is great – but don’t just take my word for it.
And hey, if you have something great to say about RAD Studio 2010 and want the world to know it, please feel free to email me with your comments. We’d love to have your thoughts included.
Our friends at TMS [...]
Hey, I’m on YouTube!
According to Julian Bucknall, the CTO for our long time partner DevExpress, they will be supporting RAD Studio 2010 in the very near future. One of the reasons that Delphi and C++Builder are such great tools is that third-parties like DevExpress produce such amazing stuff.
Have you signed up for CodeRage 4 [...]
Malcom Groves has more on Attributes in Delphi. Attributes are one of those features – sort of like Generics – that many folks don’t “grok” at first. They look at them and think “It looks cool and everything, but why would I want to do that?” But then they think about it some more and [...]
One minor feature of Delphi 2010 that hasn’t been widely mentioned is the fact that we are including the source code for MIDAS.DLL with the product. This has been a long time request, and we are delivering on it in RAD Studio 2010.
Another thing that didn’t get mentioned much last week during “VCL Preview Week” [...]
Now this is pure genius.
Now here’s a question for you: Does a product even need a “README” anymore? I mean, the classic “README.TXT” was originally supposed to be for “late breaking changes and other information that couldn’t make it into the help”, etc. But in the day and age, shouldn’t that just be an article [...]
How long will your next project take? (Hat tip to Coding Horror)
OTAPI Mavens – be sure to read Chris Hesik’s latest blog post on the updates in RAD Studio 2010.
Read Darren Kosinski on his improvements to the way the Code Editor handles Generics.
Malcolm Groves blogs about some one stuff in the RTL [...]
More looks at some of the IDE productivity:
Chris Hesik – the guy who wrote the stuff – blogs about Thread-specific Breakpoints.
Andreano Lanuuse – talks a bit about background compilation.
David Dean – our superstar C++ QA Engineer – blogs about the new C++ Class Explorer
Darren Kosinski – the guy who wrote it – talks about the [...]
Are you an Intraweb user? If so, make sure that you have all the latest updates.
It’s not too often that I run across a Delphi web site that I haven’t seen before, but I ran across Delphi Area today. They have some cool freeware, some nice Delphi components, and other things. Worth a look. [...]
If you are thinking about what second Embarcadero product you might want to get with your Buy One Get One Free deal, you might consider Change Manager. Change Manager is a powerful database management tool that lets you make changes on the fly to databases, migrate data, update existing schemas, all without a hitch. If [...]
We have released Help Update #3 for RAD Studio 2009. You can get it by checking for updates – either automatically at startup or manually via the Start menu entry – or you can download it from the Registered users page. You can, well, read the ReadMe as well. (What else would you do with [...]
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 [...]
