The Delphi Hour Archive on the Delphi Wiki
It seems like it is a good day for nice emails. Ignacio Kimero sent me an email with a link to the Archive of the Delphi Hour on the Delphi Wiki. Very nice link to get in the mail, because I was going to have to gather all that information up myself, and now I don’t have to because Ignacio was kind enough to do it for all of us. Thanks, Ignacio.
And let me put in another plug for the Delphi Wiki. This is turning in to a really valuable community resource. Contributing to the Delphi Wiki is a great way to give back to the Delphi Community. If you never have contributed to a Wiki, I encourage you to start. It’s not a difficult markup language to learn. I’ve contributed to the Delphi Wiki and to Wikipedia itself. I find myself constantly going to look things up on Wikipedia, and it is astounding to consider that 100% of this incredible resource is user contributed. I get the same feeling when I go to the Delphi Wiki. If you took just a few minutes to contribute something — some source code, your favorite Delphi Tip, or your favorite LiveTemplate — then we’ll all be better off.
It is so cool that the Delphi Wiki is taking shape. Now there is a central resource location for all things Delphi even the instructional videos of 3DBuzz and Nick’s Camtasia series.
I would like to suggest that the CodeGear Docs team focus more of their efforts on enhancing the site rather than building proprietary documentation.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:21 pmDelphi Wiki FTW
Hopefully, the Doc team will eventually post the help in a wiki-compatible license (mainly GFDL, CC) so everyone can maintain it, keep it updated for every version and expand it way beyond what any documentation team can do. It’s a colossal job to do, too much for a small team, but post initial versions and the community will do the rest.
It would be the best that could happen to any delphi programmer, beginner or expert.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmHi Nick,
I think that having the Delphi Hours in MP3 format will be more helpfull and will have more impact … So please consider this.
As a general approach I thing that will be better to have all the "live" events available as regular playable and downloadable formats (MP3 & AVI)…
I suggest to consider a Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider to lower your load for media file hosting ….
August 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pmIs there a Wiki IDE that I design a page just like I use Delphi to design a form, then wiki markup code is generated for me automatically so I can paste it into a wiki site?
If there is such a nice tool, I believe I will do more wiki thing in the future. Right now, I find it hard to remember all the markup tags.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:37 pmNick,
August 7th, 2007 at 1:24 amI have to agree with the above post, you need to make this podcast available to everybody in the standard ways. I can’t listen to it on my Mac, and I can’t get iTunes to automatically download it to listen at my leisure, so I never listen, and I love Delphi.
OK after trying a few times to listen to a Delphi hour program through Interwise, I throw the towel. This Interwise thingy is a serious POS.
The Java version did not work at all. Then the other application pops an error message on install. You know the informative kind "An error occurred". To make things better the error message dialog hided behind the installation window. I had to right click the taskbar icon select move and use the cursor keys to get it to show. Nevertheless it said the installation succeeded. Next it downloads the complete program. Why would they not stream it? Anyway there was another red blinking error message that said only part of the episode could be downloaded. And sure the first 30 minutes where gone.
This quality experience was enough to let you guys know that unfortunately I won’t be able to listen to the Delphi hour until I can do so by just downloading a mp3.
Jan Derk
August 7th, 2007 at 2:59 am@Mark
the basics are not hard at all:
=Heading= (also with == === and ====, getting smaller)
”italic”
”’bold”’
[external]
[[internal]]
{{template}}
Also remember that the important part is the content, someone else can always fix/improve the markup.
Great guide to MediaWiki (used in the delphi wiki)
August 7th, 2007 at 6:12 amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
***ALWAYS*** Leverage the community. The VCL has importance number 1 in the success of Delphi, the community is number 1.5 .
August 7th, 2007 at 8:19 amThat will mean giving up some control, but that will be an enhancement to the product’s value. There’s no ROI calculation, it’s a faith thing….
Suits don’t "get" faith. Faith cannot buy coffee (or guns.. or butter..), but faith is what built the business value of Delphi back in the old Borland days, and it’s faith that will build CodeGear Delphi.
I see signs that CG "gets" that.
Stay the course. Seed the faith. Watch it grow.
I like the idea of a WIKI for Delphi. I would love to contribute all sorts of little code tibits, but it seems a lot of the categories are locked. <ponder>
August 7th, 2007 at 9:59 pmthanks for the great news!
August 13th, 2007 at 5:05 pm