Comments for Nick Hodges

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by Kent Morwath

Kent Morwath — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:39:28 +0000

BOGO sounds very much alike bogus…. I wouldn’t use that work in marketing

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by gotoh

gotoh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:54:31 +0000

@Mike: Yes, I qualify for a C++Builder upgrade. But I don’t have an old C++Builder license to upgrade from!

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by Mason Wheeler

Mason Wheeler — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:19:41 +0000

@Bas: That would be nice, but it would really surprise me if D2010 was released before August 24.

In fact, that might answer Pani’s question. August 25, Delphi 2010 gets released!

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:32:49 +0000

Delphi Pro Upgrade qualifies for D4PHP new user, and you should also qualify for C++Builder Pro Upgrade because you own a Delphi Pro license.

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by gotoh

gotoh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:21:29 +0000

Just had a look.

If purchase an upgrade from D2007 Pro -> D2009 Pro, I can get free:

* C++ Builder upgrade (I don’t have an older C++ Builder)

* Delphi for PHP upgrade (I don’t have D4PHP)

* JBuilder upgrade (Don’t have JBuilder)

* Interbase/3rd Rail - I don’t need.

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by gotoh

gotoh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:04:26 +0000

In retailing, the expression is BOGOF. Buy One, Get One Free.

Hope it works here in Europe, too. The recent special offer for RAD didn’t exist from my German supplier, instead they wanted to bundle a bunch of libraries I didn’t need.

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by Bas

Bas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:40:12 +0000

Does this mean if I buy Delphi 2009, I get Delphi 2010 for free?

BOGO, I like that offer!

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by Pani

Pani — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:13:56 +0000

So what happens after August 24?

Comment on Word of the Day: BOGO by visli

visli — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:37:00 +0000

My Delphi was purchased in 2008, can I participate in?

Comment on Ten Things That Really Bug Me by Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:40:38 +0000

Wow, I think you should be nominated for the Stephen T. Colbert’s Alpha Dog of the Week award for even posting this list. You have the balls to post a list like this after we’ve suffered through about everything on the list in the crappy IDE that you hock to us! "Internal Error: ILLK12345" ring a bell?

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Warren

Warren — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:28:41 +0000

CNET is a land-of-marketroids and you can buy your #1 download spot. Give us $200 and we’ll create a category for you to be #1 in. The reputable vendors of shareware stay away from CNET these days. This iobit guy uses trialpay and all kinds of other sleazy things on his website, and claims that his software "does everything" and yet it’s never been reviewed in any PC software magazine. How fishy is that?

Warren

Comment on Tiburon Screenshot by Ramon

Ramon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:05:04 +0000

Jan Derk said:

"Fourth thought: Did you guys code the ribbon yourself or license it from TMS or DevExpress."

Nick Hodges said:

"4. This is our own code."

=> Can’t be proud of it, this control and the way to manage the actions and the items are not simple… (Compared to all the other controls)

…and thanks for the help : I love the explanations like "AddAction : method which add an action"

(sorry for the faults, I’m not English..)

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Nick Hodges

Nick Hodges — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:10:30 +0000

Typo fixed — thanks.

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Andreas Hausladen

Andreas Hausladen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:21 +0000

No it should be: "… team, is hard at work…".

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Vic

Vic — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:30:10 +0000

QUOTE: "found a small typo: "team i shard"."

…shouldn’t it be:
"…team, I sharded, at work as always…"

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Kent Morwath

Kent Morwath — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:35:37 +0000

Wasn’t publishing benchmarks forbidden by the license?

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:54:30 +0000

Nick,

found a small typo: "team i shard".

Michael

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #114 by Rif

Rif — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:27:30 +0000

Advanced System Care may be the most downloaded, but for system cleanup I prefer Glary Utilities.

And to keep it Delphi related - yes Glary Utilities is also a Delphi app.

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #113 by andy

andy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:15 +0000

This is the last day of the special offer for Rad studio, since I live in macau(near hongkong) and try to buy it from the beginning of this month, first, I try to buy in codegear website, but they don’t accept order from outside of us, and than, i try to buy in other e-store, but they also don’t accept order from macau (or the price is higher), and than, I try to buy in codegear on-line stores in asia, but they haven’t a option for ship to macau, and than, I try to contact china re-sellers which listed in codegear website, but it only show me the email (I don’t accept to tell the credit card no to a email) and address, no web address listed, finally, I have to put my credit card back to my wallet and forget about this…
I know many programmer in asia is using delphi, but how can we buy it ? Actually, Nick, i want to get help from you

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #113 by Ken Knopfli

Ken Knopfli — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:48:13 +0000

It’s good to read in "Native code makes a comeback" how Wayne Williams fully understands xplat issues. This comes as a great relief to me, this is rare on the CEO level.

Well, all I can say now is, I’m curious to see what CodeGear comes up with.

Comment on The Programming Book Business by sohbet

sohbet — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:51:21 +0000

I’m happy to see the team grow. If you guys ever open up a Whistler office let me know, I’m so in

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #112 by Pratt

Pratt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:15:56 +0000

Off-topic but if news about Codegear delaying 64bit Delphi in favor of multiplatform is true then Codegear has not learned anything from previous mistake with Kylix.

64 bit version of Delphi is much more important than Mac and/or Linux version, neither of them are commercially big enough markets to attract developers and Linux users are used to free software anyway and won’t buy anything.

Windows 2008 Server R2 will be 64bit only, 32bit is supported only via WOW64 and is optional.

I guess there won’t be any 64bit Windows version of InterBase since Codegear announced support for Firebird but that does not mean we wont need 64bit Delphi.

Most new Windows 7 installations will probably be 64bit so I really hope Codegear will deliver 64 bit Delphi before end of October.

Comment on Finally! Update 3/4 is here! by Juergen Blaesing

Juergen Blaesing — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:51:55 +0000

Is there any way to find the update’s number in the source like RTLVersion such as 20.3. Many changes are necessary to sail round bugs like GetRegStringValue. Since Update 3 it’s work. Who knows the source it?

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #112 by Ken Knopfli

Ken Knopfli — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:56:54 +0000

Zarko’s site is fantastic.

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #112 by Francisco Ruiz

Francisco Ruiz — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:13:13 +0000

This is a ‘me too’. One month after purchasing my SA of Delphi, I have seen the free RAD Studio upgrade.

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #112 by David Howes

David Howes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Any chance us loyal early adopters will be getting a free upgrade to RAD studio?

Comment on Nick’s Asia Trip: Australia by Get A Trip

Get A Trip — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:53:55 +0000

Hey Nick, remarkable weblog. We are digging the colors. Lots of very cool information here. Haven’t been down under yet but would love to go!

Comment on A New Role for Nick by Warren Postma

Warren Postma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:52:25 +0000

Thank you for a job well done so far, and may you continue to have good success in your new position!

Warren

Comment on What happened to the TPNGImage project? by Vladimir

Vladimir — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:28:00 +0000

OMG, CodeGear. I am so pissed off at what you did.

I used this code a LOT. This component and the way it integrated with the Graphics VCL classes was the only reason I still used Delphi (I’ve long switched to other languages for other tasks). I even submitted a patch for it once, my name is in the changelog. But as if it wan’t enough to kill off any further open-source development of this component, you also killed off the entire project! What kind of hypocrisy is this - you claim that we can still use old versions of our component, yet everywhere on the Internet (SourceForge, CodePlex) I see that you’ve forced people to remove those old versions - because you want people to BUY it in new versions of your ever-degrading software!

Ugh. I curse the day I decided Delphi would be a good programming language to learn for a beginner…

Comment on Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #111 by Mason Wheeler

Mason Wheeler — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:08:20 +0000

Ah, TClientDataset. A perfect example of why Delphi components need source. Hopefully it’ll be available in the next version…