Comments on: Delphi Makes #8 on TPCI http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/ The Podcast about the Delphi programming language, tools, news and community. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kenny http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-346 Kenny Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:57:41 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-346 A little over a year ago, I was starting to worry about the future of Delphi, and the company being stable. I?m a lot less worried now than I was a year ago. Codegear has really started to step up for the Developers. I think the jump in Rank is mainly due to two things, The Free License given to Russian Education, and Delphi 2009 supporting Unicode. This is a good business plan focusing on a global use of Delphi. If Codegear wants to continue up the ranks of Delphi Lang it?s next focus should focus on universal compiling like the Lazarus Project http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ They proven it can be done. A little over a year ago, I was starting to worry about the future of Delphi, and the company being stable.
I?m a lot less worried now than I was a year ago. Codegear has really started to step up for the Developers. I think the jump in Rank is mainly due to two things, The Free License given to Russian Education, and Delphi 2009 supporting Unicode. This is a good business plan focusing on a global use of Delphi. If Codegear wants to continue up the ranks of Delphi Lang it?s next focus should focus on universal compiling like the Lazarus Project http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ They proven it can be done.

]]> By: Jim McKeeth http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Jim McKeeth Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:53:02 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-344 @Rif: I agree. I think we are seeing both community organization of putting Delphi Programming on Delphi related pages, and a resurgence in people using Delphi. We are in the Delphi Renaissance. The releases are getting great new features, and are progressively more stable. While the Borland -> CodeGear -> Embarcadero transition might seem a little painful on the outside, I think it has really benefited the product and user base on the whole. @Rif: I agree. I think we are seeing both community organization of putting Delphi Programming on Delphi related pages, and a resurgence in people using Delphi. We are in the Delphi Renaissance. The releases are getting great new features, and are progressively more stable.

While the Borland -> CodeGear -> Embarcadero transition might seem a little painful on the outside, I think it has really benefited the product and user base on the whole.

]]> By: John Koetsier http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-343 John Koetsier Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:19:55 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-343 Hi Rif, Thanks for the tip about Codegear's hiring forum ... I'll check it out. Meanwhile, for your information, the job posting is here: http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/sof/904744321.html That doesn't really give a lot of details about what we do, but this is our main product: http://magicdesktop.easybits.com/en/ Let me know if you're interested, please contact me (see my blog, sparkplug9.com for contact details) or via the Craigslist posting. Thanks, and have a great day. Hi Rif,

Thanks for the tip about Codegear’s hiring forum … I’ll check it out.

Meanwhile, for your information, the job posting is here:
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/sof/904744321.html

That doesn’t really give a lot of details about what we do, but this is our main product:
http://magicdesktop.easybits.com/en/

Let me know if you’re interested, please contact me (see my blog, sparkplug9.com for contact details) or via the Craigslist posting.

Thanks, and have a great day.

]]> By: Rif http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Rif Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:03:56 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-342 @John Koetsier Codegear has a job "hiring" newsgroup/forum. I think that could be used. Perhaps also try linkedin.com. What is the job? If it is related to embedded systems or PC control systems I might be interested. I am on Linkedin. Greetings Richard Foersom @John Koetsier
Codegear has a job “hiring” newsgroup/forum. I think that could be used.

Perhaps also try linkedin.com.

What is the job? If it is related to embedded systems or PC control systems I might be interested. I am on Linkedin.

Greetings Richard Foersom

]]> By: John Koetsier http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-341 John Koetsier Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:42:25 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-341 What I would like to see is a dedicated Delphi job board somewhere. I'm looking for Delphi developers, and it seems a bit challenging right now. What I would like to see is a dedicated Delphi job board somewhere. I’m looking for Delphi developers, and it seems a bit challenging right now.

]]> By: Rif http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Rif Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:15:27 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-336 It is all fine that now some more Delphi sites correctly get counted in this Tiobe index, but hopefully this progress is not just a "flash in the pan", but rather that the rise is part of a stable growth. You better make sure that all the other Delphi sites listed on the Delphi Wiki "Useful sites" also are counted in. http://tinyurl.com/6828zp In general what is needed for Delphi to continue growing its user base, is that we, the Delphi community, all write more documentation, video's and application notes about programming in Delphi and makes it easy to find. This way a new-comer to Delphi can find what he need and hit the ground running. Especially some articles for people who already know another programming language X, about how to get started with Delphi programming. What is the same in X and Delphi, what is different. Further, when you already have a lot of code written in X, how to make some modules/functionality in Delphi while reusing other parts already written in X. for the X please substitute it with any other programming language be that Python, C, VB, ... It is all fine that now some more Delphi sites correctly get counted in this Tiobe index, but hopefully this progress is not just a “flash in the pan”, but rather that the rise is part of a stable growth. You better make sure that all the other Delphi sites listed on the Delphi Wiki “Useful sites” also are counted in.

http://tinyurl.com/6828zp

In general what is needed for Delphi to continue growing its user base, is that we, the Delphi community, all write more documentation, video’s and application notes about programming in Delphi and makes it easy to find. This way a new-comer to Delphi can find what he need and hit the ground running.

Especially some articles for people who already know another programming language X, about how to get started with Delphi programming. What is the same in X and Delphi, what is different. Further, when you already have a lot of code written in X, how to make some modules/functionality in Delphi while reusing other parts already written in X. for the X please substitute it with any other programming language be that Python, C, VB, …

]]> By: Jim McKeeth http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Jim McKeeth Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:09:39 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-335 Wouldn't hurt. Each post becomes its own page: http://twitter.com/jimmckeeth/status/988228824 Wouldn’t hurt. Each post becomes its own page:

http://twitter.com/jimmckeeth/status/988228824

]]> By: skamradt http://delphi.org/2008/11/delphi-makes-8-on-tpci/comment-page-1/#comment-334 skamradt Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:04:35 +0000 http://www.delphi.org/?p=437#comment-334 Makes one wonder...should we throw one in a day into our Twitter feeds just for good measure? :) Makes one wonder…should we throw one in a day into our Twitter feeds just for good measure? :)

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