http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges The Blog of the Delphi Product Manager Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:44:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/07/01/39252 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/06/28/39250 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/06/23/39248 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/06/10/39247 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/29/39246 Delphi 2009 Update 3 is out, and you all seem to have successfully downloaded it and are enjoying the new fixes and improvements.  But some of you are reporting that there are some discrepancies between your PAS files and your DCU files. This is happening almost certainly as a ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/29/39245 Okay, I told the team that if we didn’t ship this thing today, I was going to throw myself off the third story balcony.  Fortunately, my teammates like me just enough to want to prevent that from happening, and now Update 3/4 is out.  Update 3 is for the IDE/VCL/general ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/27/39241 Hey, DelphiLive was a real gas.  I had a lot of fun meeting new people, meeting people in person that I’ve known online, and visiting with old friends.  The content was phenomenal – everyone I talked to said the talks were really good.  I loved doing the “What’s Cooking in ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/18/39240 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/13/39239 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, ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/05/05/39238 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. ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/27/39235 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/20/39234 PSPad - editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems The universal freeware editor, useful for people who: work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker create web pages - as a web ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/17/39233 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/16/39232 Now this may very well be the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen done with Delphi:  These folks have put a sensor on their cat door and RFID tags on their cat’s collars that that triggers a Delphi application that sends out a Tweet every time their cats go through ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/15/39231 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/14/39230 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/13/39229 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/11/39228 Rapid Environment Editor “Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes easy to use GUI and replaces small and inconvenient Windows edit box. RapidEE 3.x supports Windows NT, 2000, XP & Vista. If you still use Windows 9x or ME, then use 2.x branch.” And ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/08/39227 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/04/01/39226 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/29/39225 The Australian Delphi User Group is having their Autumn (Spring for us in the Northern Hemisphere :-)  ) Symposium in two cites this year, in Melbourne on Thursday 02 April, and in Sydney on Friday 03 April.  You can find out more at their web site. And the events will ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/23/39221 Hey, here are two links of interest for you Delphi developers and folks doing Delphi programming. A wishlist for the next version of Delphi on StackOverflow Jim McKeeth has set up a Delphi area on UserVoice.  ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/20/39216 Are you an iTunes user on Windows?  Well, Delphi is pretty good at building Shell Extensions, and here is a shell extension to find out a bit more about *.m4a files.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/17/39215 “FindOnClick is a very easy to use, file searching utility for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista” http://www.2brightsparks.com/onclick/foc.htmlShare This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/17/39214 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/17/39213 More information at:  http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/39408Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/11/39212 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/09/39211 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 ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/03/04/39209 If you are a Delphi for PHP user, or are just interested in the product, please take the time to fill out the survey: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/39306Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.embarcadero.com/nickhodges/2009/02/18/39207