http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges The Blog of the Delphi Product Manager Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:22:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US I’m a big Joel Spolsky fan, but I wasn’t too impressed when I read that he went out of his way to steal Pascal’s with statement and add it to VBA for Excel, well….. Cary Jensen is doing a series of Webinars on Migrating ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/18/39372 David I is doing another webinar:  RAD/AJAX-based Web Application Development using RAD Studio 2010.  He is giving it three different times on Thursday, March 18, 2010, so no matter where you are in the world, you should be able to tune in. Anders ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/17/39371 First of all, thanks for the help improving the CreateRandomDate function.  I confess that I didn’t spend enough time thinking on it, and I’ll also confess that you guys are way smarter than I am.  ;-)  I’ll post the “updated” version for your perusal in a separate post.  ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/16/39370 Okay, so I’m a Development Manager. My job is to see to the health, welfare, productivity, effectiveness, and proper tasking of a big chunk of the RAD Studio development team. I share these duties with the excellent and capable Mike Devery.  I mainly manage the guys that work on the ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/10/39369 If you are a registered user of Delphi 2010, you can now download a digital copy of Marco Cantu’s new book, Delphi 2010 Handbook. (From Marco’s Site: “The book covers all the new features of Delphi 2010 for Win32, from Extended RTTI to new IDE features, from ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/09/39368 I was talking with a customer yesterday.  It was a pretty typical conversation – they have a big investment in Delphi, with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.  They had built a major application for a major business using DataSnap and dbGo (formerly ADOExpress).  They had started to build ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/05/39367 The Haitian Relief Auction is wrapping up, and there are still some good deals to be had.  My favorite out there right now is the “Your name (and picture) in the RAD Studio Easter Egg”.  The bidding has gone above $100, so the winning bidder will have ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/04/39366 Help Update 2 for RAD Studio 2010 is now available.  Marco has released his new book:  Delphi 2010 Handbook The RemObjects guys are constantly on the move.  Their latest is a .Net scripting called RemObjects Script for .Net.  It’s ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/03/01/39364 Haiti Auction Update:  The Haitian relief action continues.  Anders told me this morning that we are up over $19,000 raised so far.  As of this writing, you can get Danny Thorpe’s old security badge for a $57 bid.  Danny has also autographed a bunch of items as ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/22/39363 I’ve always said that by a country mile, the most under-appreciated, under-utilized, and under-exploited feature of the IDE is the Live Templates engine.  If you haven’t explored Live Templates, you really should.  The Delphi Wiki has a pretty nice write up on them, as well as a page ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/18/39362 Hey, Delphi at the Olympics! Cool that Marco spotted that. Sunday was the 15th Anniversary of the launch of Delphi.  As I’ve probably said way too many times – I was there at the launch at the Moscone Center that fateful evening in 1995.  It really ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/16/39360 The Haiti Auction continues apace.  Thanks so much to all of you who have purchased items and helped to raise a lot of cash for the people of Haiti.   Many of the items have been sold, but there are still many items out there to be bid ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/12/39359 Hey, feel free to weigh in on Delphi as your favorite language over at StackOverflow. Hat tip to Moritz Beutel for his answer. The Haitian Relief Auctions are going like gangbusters.  We even made the Santa Cruz Sentinel!  (Way to go, Anders! And hey, ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/06/39357 The bidding is starting to pick up on our Haitian Relief auctions.  Thanks very much to everyone who is generously bidding. I have now officially gone crazily out of control in adding XMLDoc comments to the TSmiley code. Seriously.   Help Insight will now provide ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/03/39356 Okay – the Haitian Auctions are live! Three pages of historical goodness and fun, all for a good cause – with more to come, I believe. Note, that even though the auctions state: “90% of the final sale price will support Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (Small deduction may apply. Learn more)” all the ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/02/01/39353 Anders Ohlsson has posted a couple of “sneak peak” auctions to make sure that our system is working.  http://shop.ebay.com/andersohlsson/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25 Bid early and bid often!  Look for more opportunities next week.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/30/39352 As some of you may know, we are moving our offices to a new location here in Scotts Valley.  This beautiful, big building we are currently in (and that was built and owned by Borland for many years) isn’t matching up to our needs anymore, and we are moving to ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/27/39350 Well, there certainly is a lot of folks using serial ports out there.  ;-) Allen Bauer goes on quite a tirade about stack frames and stack alignment. We originally set 31 December 2009 as the last day you could ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/25/39349 Check out Channel E – a central location for Embarcardero’s online stuff: video, blogs, twitter, etc. Interested in finding out more about Delphi Prism?  Long time Delphi developer Brian Long has written a White Paper which discusses using Delphi Prism and  Mono.  You ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/14/39348 Okay, the response to TSmiley has been amazing.  At least ten of you have downloaded it.  Unbelievable.  I’ve even made a few updates to it.  And I’ve checked those updates into the Subversion server on SourceForge.  I’ll try to keep up with the ZIP file download, but seriously, you really ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/11/39347 Whoops – found this post with a few items hanging around from before the Christmas break – some of this stuff may be a little older…… Chris Hesik has posted an informal update to Delphi 2007 that will enable the debugger to work ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/07/39346 If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been “teased” about TSmiley, I could finance my own startup.  TSmiley, for those of you that don’t know or haven’t heard, is maybe the very first third-party VCL component ever.  I built it for the first time way back ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2010/01/06/39345 Jud Cole and SOCK Software have been long time Technical Partners of Borland, CodeGear and now Embarcadero, and they have recently released version 2.6 of their flagship product CodeHealer that includes full compatibility with RAD Studio 2010. In case you haven't heard of it, CodeHealer is a powerful ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/21/39340 When we told Microsoft about Delphi Prism, they were really excited at what we were doing with the VS Shell.  So excited, in fact, that they did a complete Case Study on it.  And I even get a nice quote on the side. :-) ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/17/39339 Okay, the Update to the Update is out. You can download it from the Registered Users page or you can let the IDE do the update for you by checking for updates.  To find out more, you can read the README.  I know you all always read the README, right? ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/14/39338 I spent some time working on the “Enhancements Since Delphi 7” page on the Delphi wiki.  Feel free to pitch in.  I’m sure that I missed a lot of stuff, as I did it kind of late of a Friday afternoon.  I’ll try to get back and ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/14/39337 Some of you were having trouble running the Delphi 2009 debugger under Windows 7.  We’ve posted a hotfix for that.  Chris Hesik has some details. From the EmbarcaderoTech twitter account: Are you a LinkedIn user?  Embarcadero Technologies has an awesome new group for customers ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/08/39336 The deals just keep on rolling around here.  There’s free stuff everywhere!  Tim Del Chiaro, our intrepid and dedicated RAD Studio Product Marketing Manager, details how we are once again, with a RAD Studio, Delphi, or C++Builder purchase, giving out the latest version of TMS Software’s Smooth ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/12/03/39334 Phew – okay, been a while.  I was “on the road” last week.  Thanks to all the great folks that showed up in Philadelphia, Raleigh, and Minneapolis for my road show.  I hope I was able to convey the great stuff in the latest version of RAD ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/11/25/39333 This week we were in the early stages of rolling out what was to be “RAD Studio Update 2” with a large number of bug fixes.  We put the update out on the web and the registered users page, and posted an article on the Embarcadero Developer Network. ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/11/13/39332