Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #44
30 Nov
- Here’s a nice case study from Euclid Technologies. They used Delphi 2007 to beat their competition to Vista. You can’t do that with any other development tool.
- Let me give you a tip: If you post a comment on my blog here with some generic comment like "Very good site. Thank you!!!" or "Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts.." or "I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting" I can pretty much guarantee that your comment is going to be deleted. Especially if your name is "Replica Rolex Watch" or "Online Pharmacy" or "Cingular Wireless". (Yes, I spend an obscene amount of time dealing with spam on this blog.)
- I had a good time on the little impromptu Q&A session on CodeRage II this week. Thanks for all the good questions.
- You gotta believe that this Dilbert was put up on more than one developer’s door over the last few days.
- CodeRage was fun — if you missed sessions or you want to review stuff that you did see, we’ve got an archive going.
- Pawel Glowacki has a nice article on some of the things that you D7 developers are missing out on.
based on the case study, it seems like successful companies will jump from D7 to D2007 (native only of course) and totally skips delphi.net stuff.
please put focus more onto native delphi (unicode and win64)!
November 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm"Very good blog. Thank you!!!"
November 30th, 2007 at 6:51 pmThanks for the CodeRage archive. I just could not find the Q&A sessions. Am I overlooking them or are they not yet available for download?
December 1st, 2007 at 6:25 amNick, A++ for making CodeRage II free.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:54 amI was only able to view a couple…Now downloading other sessions..
Would it be possible to get a code for the examples used during presentations ?
Yes, that Dilbert cartoon was certainly relevant at my office. We’re right in the middle of switching to Scrum for all new projects. It feels like fitting square pegs into round holes sometimes.
And I’m glad there’s an archive of the CodeRage presentations. Nearly every one I wanted to watch "live" conflicted with a meeting I had at work!
December 1st, 2007 at 1:15 pmI had a look to UML Modeling video (http://bdntv.borland.com/delphi/together_overview.html) referred by Pawel article.
I’m testing Delphi RAD Studio 2007. In video It’s showed that when you add a property in Model diagram a private field it’s added inside the class to memorize internal value of the property.
I tried it in Delphi 2007 and the private field It’s not added: just setter, getter and the property itself.
There an option to set or It’s a difference between D2006 and D2007?
Thanks!
December 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pmHello Nick,
thanks for setting up the CodeRage archive. However, I miss the C++Builder related presentations by Alisdair Meredith ("Product Address: C++Builder" and "Effective C++Builder"). Can you do anything about this?
Thanks in advance!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 amNick, stay tuned for my article "ten things that worked in Delphi 7 and no longer works or were removed since then" - the ITE, for example.
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 amFrankly, I find this continuos attempt to crush Delphi 7 a real idiocy.
Developers are not stupid. If they don’t shell out several thousand dollars or euros or whatever, there’s a reason.
They can read features list, and they know exactly what’s new. Probably the price/new features ratio is not judged so appealing yet.
When I decided to upgrade to RAD2007 because BDS2006 couldn’t open a type library correctly, and saw the new IDE is unable to import correctly projects translated with D7 ITE, you should have been here to listen to my insults, I was able to craft some new and pretty ones…
If I were you, I will stop this "ten reason to…", I would work hard to release a product that will really attract developers foaming at the mouth to buy it.
Luigi –
I’ll look forward to that article. Let me know when you publish it. That way, I’ll know what might be holding some folks back, and we can get to work on those issues.
Nick
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 amI’m working on it. Just very busy for an upcoming release… that could be an interesting case study if I will manage to get permission for
December 4th, 2007 at 2:54 amCodeRage was lots of fun, and there was tonnes of very useful and interesting content. Thanks for hosting it.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:41 pmVery good site. Thank you!!!
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