I just updated the Delphi Twitter directory with a few new additions, one specific one of note: Delphifeeds.com, your one stop shop for all Delphi blog feeds, is now posting updates via Twitter.
Thanks to Dennis Gurok (also on Twitter) and his team for all their great efforts!
The SDK / API / Framework is now available for the Revenge of Delphi Robot Rage. Check out the details page.
This time around it uses Delphi Prism and a much better API and Framework based on UT3 for your bots. I am sure you will find it much easier to work with, and way more powerful.
I am still looking into prizes and I need to set the time frame for entries. So much to do, so little time.
Stay tuned for more information and make sure you are registered for CodeRage III. See you at the final session!
Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC) talking about Where are Programming Languages Going? He comes in at about 3:07 and opens with a demo of Turbo Pascal to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary this month.
I love the stats he opens with about where programming languages were when Turbo Pascal came out 25 years ago. A great talk!
Covers DSL, Functional Programming, LINQ, etc.
[Source] [Hat tip Olaf Monien via Twitter]
David I just posted that CodeRage III sessions and registration is available now. There are a lot of really great looking sessions there too.
CodeRage III is a virtual conference that runs December 1-5, 2008 and is free to attend, if you register!
Back in CodeRage II we saw the introduction of Delphi Robot Rage. Unfortunately the engine was a little buggy and didn’t work on all platforms. Well, for CodeRage III, Delphi Robot Rage is back with a vengeance (sounds cool anyway). A whole new engine, with more development options!
I went to install the latest JVCL today for Delphi 2009. I was surprised that JEDI stopped offering one download with both the JCL and JVCL. So I downloaded both, installing JCL first since it is required by JVCL. Well, JVCL gave me an error that I had the wrong version of the JCL installed.
So I went back to Sourceforge to look if I grabbed the wrong one. Sure enough, I had the September 9th version of each. I tried again, and it still didn’t work. So I figured I would get the latest from Subversion. After I installed the subversion client I discovered links to download the latest versions via the subversion web interface as a tar.gz file (no need to connect via subversion.) The links are not obvious, but really useful in my opinion, so I thought I would share them here:
[Check out the official daily link in the comments!]
One thing that is missing is the JVCL help, which you can download seperately (along with demos, etc.)
If you don’t have something that can open a tar.gz then get 7Zip. It does a two step process (extract the tar from the gz, then extract the files from the tar), but it gets the job done.
Hope that helps. Maybe I missed something and there is an easier way to get these packages. . . .
The November TPCI is in, and Delphi has in fact made #8. C# also moved up to #7. It was September when Delphi returned to the top 10. In October it took 9th, bumping JavaScript, and this month it bumped Perl as it took 8th. Delphi continues to climb at a faster rate then C#, and it is only 0.02% behind C#, so it could still overtake it.
Delphi is competing for TIOBE’s “Language of the Year 2008 Award” together with C++ and Python.
Actually, if it continutes its rate of climb since September it could overtake Python as well, which would certainly help cinch its standing as language of the year. If I remember Python was last year, so I think it is Delphi’s turn.
So keep up the work of adding the phrase “Delphi Programming” to the text of all your pages about Delphi. While there are other phrases that count towards Delphi, they only take the highest phrase, which is currently “Delphi Programming” so lets focus on that.
There is a flash mob / Open Space session on Delphi 2009 and Prism at PDC2008 in the Open Space area at 3:30 PM. See everyone there.
Also, I have a good conversation going on with Jay Faubion on my Delphi Prism post. A lot more information in the comments. Thanks Jay!
Just in case you were not already following. Of course from a Delphi developer point of view.
Sometimes being on-site slows you down. The WiFi is spotty and just finding a change to sit down is a challenge. The news about Delphi Prism is out. What is Delphi Prism? It is Delphi with full .NET 3.5+ support running in Visual Studio, with a number of the high power database solutions you would expect from CodeGear / Embarcadero.
Behind the scenes, this is accomplished with a stack of
You put all that together and you have a pretty exciting solution for .NET development.
Check out the impressive list of language features available in Delphi Prism, that are not available in C#. We talked about a lot of these in Episode 5. Notably:
Not to mention all the cool things you can do with the database tools.
I am sure there is much more to come about Delphi Prism.