Author: Jim McKeeth

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First Dropbox Post

As I am sure everyone knows, I interviewed Michael Rozlog, the Delphi Product Manager at Embarcadero Technologies last Thursday.  I just got a chance to sit down and start editing it, but for those of you who cannot wait, I’ll share the rough version out for preview.  My plan was to share it out via a Dropbox shared folder, but I am also going to share it via a DropBox public folder link.

I’ll keep the public folder link available until I post the final version of the episode.

For all of those who subscribed to DropBox via the link in the last post, it didn’t give me your email address, so I cannot add you to the public drop box.  If you want to have access to the Public Delphi DropBox going forward, then you need to leave a comment here using your email address.

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Join the Delphi Dropbox

Have you signed up for Dropbox yet?  It is a service that makes it really easy to syncronize files between multiple computers, your iPhone and friends.  I am considering using their folder sharing as an alternative method to share out Delphi related materials, like maybe raw episodes of the podcast (before I edit them and add the music), or possibly trials, freebies, videos or other goodies!

Dropbox offers 2 GB free, but up to 100 GB for premium subscribers.  As a bonus, if you sign up via a referral, then you both get an additional 250 MB free.

So if you are interested in something like that, let me know, and sign-up for Dropbox.  If you do sign up via the link in this post, then we both get an additional250 MB of storage for free (more if you upgrade to a premium account).

I have some fun and exciting stuff planned to share out, and I would love to see what everyone else would be interested in sharing.  Of course we want to make sure if it isn’t your own creation you have permission to share it.

So either sign up via one of the links here, or if you have already signed up then let me know you want to be part of the network.

If you want to know some more cool thinks you can do with Dropbox, check out 15 Dropbox Hacks from Maximum PC.

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Upcoming Michael Rozlog Interview

I need your questions!

Michael Rozlog has agreed to an interview.  I am planning to discuss his roll as the Delphi Product Manager, the Delphi Survey, the Delphi Road Map and your questions from the comments on this post.  The interview is scheduled for Thursday, so I need your question before then.  Try to keep the question short and succinct.  If you have a bug report, please use QC.  If you have an issue in QC then please include the QC number.

If you would like to email me an audio question or use the Delphi Hot Line to submit a question you can do that too.  My email address is thepodcast@delphi.org or call (361) 4Delphi.  You can also post your questions to a special user voice forum, which might be the best way so I can ask you questions back about your question.

UPDATE: Listen to the interview.

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36 – Žarko Gaji?

Today we have a great interview with Silver Helmet of Delphi Legends Community Award winner Žarko Gaji?Follow on Twitter from Delphi.About.com.  Be sure to checkout his interview on Wings of Wind.

Some of the stuff we talk about:

  • Teaching developers new to Delphi.
  • Answering Delphi questions.
  • Delphi Best Practices.
  • The advantages of a free Delphi.
  • The move to Embarcadero.
  • And a lot more.

I really enjoyed this interview and Žarko is a great guy who does a lot for the community.

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A couple points of news:

  • I actually interviewed Primož Gabrijel?i? previously, but unfortunately lost most of the audio.  So I will get with him an record it again.
  • I haven’t had any posts for a while because my database filled up with stats, which prevented adding new posts.  Thanks to Jamie Ingilby for his help troubleshooting it.  I reconfigured it to keep the stats size down.  Shouldn’t happen again.
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Tell Cary a Birthday Story

Cary JensenToday is Cary Jensen‘s birthday, and all he wants is your Unicode migration stories.  He is putting together a white paper on Unicode migration, and he needs your stories: both success and horror stories.  He hopes to capture what the migration was like in the real world, to help others who are also migrating to Unicode.  So you give him a present, and we all benefit!

The call is out for Unicode migration stories. If you have encountered a Unicode-related challenge migrating your existing applications to Delphi 2009 or later, other Delphi developers have the opportunity to learn from your success.

Author and Delphi developer Cary Jensen is looking for real-world stories about Unicode migration for inclusion in a white paper on migrating Delphi applications to Unicode. With your input, this white paper should serve as a valuable resource for the entire Delphi community.

What Cary needs are brief descriptions of the challenge or challenges that you encountered, along with your solutions. He will mention your name in the white paper if he includes your story (unless you want to remain anonymous).

Cary is a great guy, and he does so much for all of us, so why don’t you send him a nice birthday present of a Unicode migration story.  You don’t need to gift wrap it, or even put candles on it.  If you are feeling festive when you are done, then you can eat a slice of cake (or whatever you do to celebrate) in his honor.

While today, November 5th is his Birthday, he is accepting gifts through November 27th, but the sooner the better!

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Delphi Legends 2009 Community Award

Community NomineeJohn Thomas of Wings-of-Wind.com started a community poll. Originally he was calling it the Spirit of Delphi award, but then it was pointed out that the Spirit of Delphi is awarded by the Delphi R&D team. Well John didn’t let this discourage him, so he renamed it the Delphi Legends Community Award.

John kicked off the poll process by nominating Zarko Gajic of Delphi.About.Com and Peter Below of TeamB. Then the community nominated a number of others, including myself. Just being nominated among such other great Delphi legends is quite an honor.

In the end around 500 developers voted and I received 11% of the votes, ending up with 4th place, making me a Nominee. The other winners are:

Other nominees include

Also Primoz Gabrijelcic won the nobility prize for encouraging other to vote for Peter Below.

Be sure to check out the interviews with a number of the winners, including me.

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35 – Hadi Hariri

Today’s interview is with Hadi Hariri.

Hadi Hariri is Technical Lead at iMeta Technologies, an ISV specialized in developing complete IT solutions. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.  You can catch him on his blog or on Twitter.

We caught up with Hadi at the start of day 2 of SDC 2009.

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ShineOn 1.0.1.0 Released

Per Carlo Kok, ShineOn 1.0.1.0 is released today.  ShineOn is a library for Delphi Prism to assist in porting Delphi/Win32 and Delphi for .NET projects to Delphi Prism by providing a subset of RTL and core VCL classes that can be used instead of replacing all RTL/VCL calls with native FCL alternatives.

This is the first actual release.  Previously you had to download it from SVN.  It still appears to be a little lite on the documentation though, but it is exciting to see this project progressing forward.

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Spirit of Delphi Poll

Typically the Spirit of Delphi award winner is chosen by the Delphi R&D team, but this year it would appear there is a community poll.  I am quite honored to find myself on the list of nominees.  To be numbered among such other great contributors is a treat in itself.

I encourage you all to get out and vote in the poll.  It closes this Saturday the 24th of October.

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34 – Craig Stuntz

Today we are talking with Team-B member Craig Stuntz.  We are talking about a wide range of topics, including Entity Framework with Dephi Prism, Functional programming with Delphi Native, Attributes, RTTI and the future of programming languages.

Some of the other topics we talked about:

  • Dynamic typing
  • Dynamic method invocation
  • Attributes
  • The future of programming languages
  • Network aware development
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Unit Testing
  • REST

Also check out

Thanks Craig!

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