Nick Hodges

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As many of you have noticed, our newsgroups have gone down pretty hard.  We get them back up, they stay up for a while, and then they crash again.  The machine and the software is showing it’s age.
Fortunately, John Kaster and his team had already been in the process of a completely new solution for […]

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In about a week, my old email address — nick.hodges@borland.com — will no longer work.  So if that is the address you have for me, please use nick.hodges@codegear.com instead.  Eventually I’ll have an Embarcadero email address, but the codegear.com address should continue to work for a long time to come.
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I’ve blogged about this before — the programming book industry continues to fascinate me. Jeff Atwood comments this week on it, talking about how "The Internet has rendered programming books obsolete."  Lately, there has been a resurgence of Delphi books, lead by Marco Cantu and others, but these guys are not using traditional book publishing […]

If you have your IDE set to check for updates, you should know by now that Help Update #3 is out — and this should be a good update.  There should be loads of new content in the VCL section, and improvements throughout.
If you don’t have the IDE set to automatically check for updates, then […]

FL Studio
 
"FL Studio is the most complete virtual studio currently available. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi) or midi instrument you feed it."
I’m told that they get 5,000,000 downloads a year — pretty slick.
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Gleaned this from the newsgroups:
We have an important announcement for customers of our Intraweb components and for the greater Delphi/Intraweb community:
Effective immediately, Arcana Technologies (www.arcanatech.com) has terminated sales of the Elite Suite for Intraweb and VCL for the Web and released […]

TDUG  meeting Monday, March 3
(www.tdug.com)
A continuation of the Jan 23 presentation on the significant additions to Delphi since Delphi 7
Topics (Among others) 1. Demonstrate more refactoring 2. Demonstrate how to customize help insight 3. Use class helpers to […]

The Delphi Survey is now available in Russian!
The main article about the survey is here.
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Here is a Delphi job opening in New York City:
This position is for a prestigious financial services firm in NYC - it can be either long-term consulting or full-time. 
Experienced Delphi developer who has worked in creating Windows based applications rich in user interface and server side applications that process data for middle office operations. […]

The Delphi Survey is now available in German.
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Thanks to all of you who have completed the Delphi Survey.  We really appreciate it.
I’ve updated the article to include links to some translated versions of the survey.  We now have:
Japanese Version
Portuguese Version
Spanish Version
Traditional Chinese Version
Simplified Chinese Version
Korean Version
Turkish Version
These are, of course, in addition to the English Version.
Some notes on the survey:
[…]

This is a nice piece of news:  CodeGear products will be used by over a million Russian students.
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The 2008 Delphi Survey is out — please take a few moments to fill it out and let us know what you think about Delphi, how you use it, what direction the product ought to go, etc.
We absolutely rely very heavily on your input on the survey to make decisions about where we are […]

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Time :     7:00 to 10:00 PM
Speaker :     Richard Dermont Topic :     A summary with examples of the the significant additions to Delphi since Delphi 7.0 Desc :   Rick will demonstrate many new features of Delphi using examples from Marco Cantu’s ‘Delphi 2007 Handbook’. […]

Delphi Developer - Permanent Position
We are currently seeking an individual that has Delphi development experience and Oracle experience.  This is a permanent position and it is located in the Northeastern part of NC.  Our client offers a very good relocation package and benefits program (includes full health, dental, and vision, 401k, Profit Sharing, tuition reimbursement […]

Grabbed this from Dr. Bob in the newsgroups:
Dutch speaking Delphi Developers please mark your agendas for a free Delphi / CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 (afternoon) Seminar on Thursday February 21st in Helmond Brandevoort (NL) where I will be doing a number of sessions on Delphi and RAD Studio 2007. Topics include Generics, migration from the […]

I received 78 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?

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I’m not sure whether to be alarmed about, well, nothing or not after this appeared on my screen today:

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We are very pleased to announce the December Update for RAD Studio 2007, Delphi 2007, and C++Builder 2007 which includes fixes and even more performance enhancements. We’re also continuing to improve the install experience making it smoother, faster and simpler (and will continue to improve the install). In order to get the most from this […]

I’ve just published an article on the Developer Network called "A General Discussion about the RAD Studio End User License Agreement". 
It is being published because there seem to be a pretty steady stream of questions about certain issues regarding the EULA for Delphi, and we wanted a document that explains things as clearly as […]

The winner of the 2007 Spirit of Delphi Award goes to Andreas Hausladen.
Andreas has been an invaluable member of the Delphi community for a long time, and we are happy to recognize his contributions with this award. 
Andreas has made countless contributions both to the Delphi community and to the product itself.  His Delphi SpeedUp […]

Yesterday on my Q&A session for the Delphi Product Address at CodeRage II, folks mentioned to old tool palette and how they miss it.  Quite frankly, I totally don’t get this.  In my view, the new tool palette is something like 723 times better than the old one.  Finding components is very, very fast.  Arranging […]

Want to get a little love for your product, application, or development team?  Want to help out the Delphi community? Are you doing something and find yourself saying "I could have never done that without Delphi!"?
I’m looking for some Delphi Success Stories.  What is a Delphi Success Story you ask?  A Delphi Success Story is […]

Here’s another reason to attend the FREE CodeRage next week.  Longtime Delphi community member Jim McKeeth has a cool event going during CodeRage — D-Robots and Delphi Robot Rage.
You can show off your Delphi skills and have some fun in the rough-and-tumble world of robot applications!  Submit early and you might get some practice rounds […]

Christine Ellis, the tireless coordinator of CodeRage II, has posted this on the newsgroups:
We’ve had tons of customers register for CodeRage II (http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07) already. And we’ve also listened to your feedback over the past few weeks. We’ve heard from our loyal customers that they want to take part even though they might still be evaluating […]

In addition to being available via the IDE update mechanism, the Help Update can also be downloaded from the registered users page here:
http://www.codegear.com/downloads/regusers/radstudio
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By now, you all should have been notified by the IDE that you have an update available to the documentation for Delphi 2007, C++Builder 2007, and RAD Studio 2007. If you haven’t been notified, you can go to the Start menu and ask the product to "Check for Updates". In it you should see, among […]

Folks, it’s a bit crazy around here this week with both the world-wide sales team and the R&D team from St. Petersburg visiting here. Therefore, we won’t have a Delphi Hour today. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, so we’ll all be off, an then the following week is CodeRage II. 
So, we’ll be […]