Archive for March, 2007

Jim’s Delphi for PHP QuickTour

http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/articles.aspx?=ComponentDevelopmentinDelphiForPHP Jim Tierney has posted a very nice Delphi for PHP “quick tour” as a guest on Steve Trefethen’s blog (we’re going to get Jim his own blog someday, we promise). Jim starts by writing a very simple “vanilla” PHP survey app w/o any VCL. He then shows how to wrap it into a […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 30th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

We need your C++ feedback!

If you haven’t taken then 2007 C++Builder developer survey, now is a great time. We are working on future versions of C++Builder (if you’re new to C++Builder, think RAD C++ or a C++ version of Delphi). Your feedback can have a direct impact on features and directions. The 2007 survey is now available in many […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 21st, 2007 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

Delphi 2007 Floating Designer Mode

I’ve received a handful of customer inquiries asking if Delphi 2007 supports the classic “Floating Designer” mode. I’m happy to be able to say Yes it does! Here is a shot of Delphi 2007 running on Vista in the classic “floaty” mode: To run the IDE in this mode, just set Menu: […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 19th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 27 Comments »

Jim Tierney on Delphi 2007 VCL Alignment and Spacing

Jim is a guest blogger on Steve Trefethen’s blog today, and since it’s a really nice article and Steve’s blog doesn’t aggregate onto blogs.codegear.com, I thought I’d just pass it along : http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/AligningSizingAndSpacingCommandsInTheDelphi2007VCLDesigner.aspx
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Posted by Michael Swindell on March 19th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Delphi 2007 ESD is available thru local partners and resellers!

ESD (Electronic Software Delivery) has clearly become a popular way to buy Delphi 2007. Now that Delphi 2007 is shipping and officially available worldwide, I want to make sure that customers are aware that ESD is not exclusive to the various eShops around the world - that you can purchase ESD thru your local CodeGear partner or […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 19th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 15 Comments »

Delphi 2007 Install Roll Call: Who will be first?

It used to be Step 868) release Delphi to manufacturing and then Step 869) wait about ten days to two weeks before customers started receiving Delphi boxes in the mail… not anymore! With the ESD option, Delphi developers are going to be able to be installing as soon as the eCommerce systems and resellers are […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 24 Comments »

2:30am and creatures are stirring

it’s 2:30am and we’re all here in Scotts Valley (and in UK and Sydney Aus) testing final Spacely (Delphi 2007 for Win32) gold master candidates. It’s been a loooong week and an even longer night, but we are now testing the final web install candidates. Getting very close now. Update: 3:53am, we’re still at it. Lots of […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 8 Comments »

XP and Vista Aero… Seamless? Yes!

Steve Trefethen has posted a couple of nice blogs on how Delphi 2007 for Win32 incorporates Windows Vista Aero UI and Desktop support into the VCL and still seamlessly supports Windows XP and 2000 with the exact same executables. This is turning out to be a growing problem for a lot of developers (MFC or […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 14th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Hallvard’s Delphi 2007 for Win32 Confessions

If you’re into Delphi and you don’t know Hallvard Vassbotn, you should. Hallvard’s a long time Delphi programmer, writer, book editor, hacker, and blogger. Anyhow Hallvard knows Delphi like few outside the walls of the Scotts Valley campus. Lately he’s written a few comprehensive, and fairly technically detailed, reviews on the areas of Delphi 2007 that interest him - […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 14th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Instant Delphi 2007 Download!

I blogged yesterday about one of my favorite new features of Delphi 2007 for Win32; Delphi’s new installation architecture. One of the really cool things about the new installer technology is that it enables us to do “instant” eCommerce downloads for Delphi new user or upgrade purchases. In the olden days you could purchase Delphi electronically […]

Posted by Michael Swindell on March 13th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 37 Comments »

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