New Poll for your voting pleasure. Please let me know your favorite podcast format of the ones I have provided so far. I plan on mixing it up with a couple different formats, but it would be nice to know the preferred format.
Favorite Format
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Loading ...BTW, there is another screen cast coming . . . .
MikeG reported that he wasn’t able to get the Explore Tool in Delphi to work in XP. I tried it on XP today and it worked fine. It might be that something was missed. Here is a nice reference of the important bits from that screen cast:
Go to Tools / Configure Tools / Add
The Title can be anything you want. The program is Explorer (the .exe is optional) and the parameters must be /select, $edname (be sure you remember the comma!)
That should do it for you to open an explorer window with the currently edited file selected.
Update: More explorer parameters.
This is basically an experiment with the new Jing tool from TechSmith and creating a screen cast with Delphi 2009. Just so you know up front, there is no editing, so you are getting the raw screen cast (although I did a few takes) so it isn’t as polished as my usual podcast.
You can download the SWF file or use the link above to view it online. It is really small (5.64 MB) and should stream quickly. Like I said, this is an experiment, so I would really like your feedback on the process so I can tune future screen casts better.
Thanks!
[Update: I took off the enclosure. I don’t think most video players can handle the SWF file anyway.]
This episode is the first of what I hope to be a recurring feature where I get together with other bloggers and community members to discuss Delphi news. We talk about Delphi 2009, Stack Overflow and their OpenId Issues, why we use Delphi, and other current events.
Roland Beenhakker is a long time Delphi user since version 1. He started his own company Beensoft Software Engineering. In this company a small team of professionals build software and webapplications to customer’s specifications, using Delphi and other tools. He is located in Heiloo, Netherlands, which is about 40 kilometers north of Amsterdam. His blog is Delphi Power Unleashed.
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Jolyon Smith has been using Delphi since literally before it was realeased, as he has access to the Borland Early Experienec Program through his employeer at the time. Before that he was developing client/server Windows applications before it became fashionable, primarily using Gupta SQLWindows and SQLBase. Apart from software development, he is a rabid movie geek, a devoted family man, a voracious reader and an enthusiastic singer. He lives in Aukland, New Zealand and his blog is Te Waka o Delphi.
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marc hoffman is the Chief Software Architect for RemObjects and a Spare-time Photographer. When he is not guest appearing on this podcast he runs a blog at RemObjects.com where he talks about Oxygene and shares some of his photographs. marc lives in Berlin Germany, and prefers his name all lowercase.
Also tune in for the great 20% discount from RemObjects!
There is a thread on Stack Overflow listing the hidden features of Delphi. Worth checking out. If you don’t see the features you know of then be sure to add them.
Additionally I added a side bar on the left that lists the 10 most recent Stack Overflow questions related to Delphi.
There is a new programming community site on the internet today. It has been in beta for a while, but today it is open to the public. The site is Stack Overflow and it is the brain child of Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky. If you are software developer who reads blogs then you have most likely heard of them and read their work.
Think of Stack Overflow as a combination of a Wiki with a Forum. There is a little bit of Digg / Reddit thrown in and a touch of a blog. Here is Jeff’s Venn diagram to explain it:
So that little asterisk in the middle. Everything is tagged, so you can filter for only the Delphi questions. It is pretty active and sometimes it is good to see how the other side lives. There is a pretty good community forming already.
I am trying to keep an eye on the Delphi questions, there are currently 37 of them, but I occasionally check out other topics too. It doesn’t replace CodeGear’s forums (which now have an accept answer feature) but I like the fact it is much more focused to being on the topic of a question and an answer and less on a discussion.
So far I have seen some past guests on our podcast there including both Nick Hodges and Barry Kelly. When will I see you out there? Put a link in the comments. I’ll be sure to vote up most Delphi questions and good answers too.
Back in episode 2 Nick Hodges told us to learn the latest features of .NET since the future version of Delphi for .NET will have full support of all .NET features. Instead of learning C# or VB.NET, we can use Oxygene by RemObjects. In this episode we talk with marc hoffman of RemObjects about Oxygene – the surprisingly complete Object Pascal implementation for .NET.
Don’t want to use the ESD to install? Nick posted that the ISO was available, but the link wasn’t immediately obvious as it pointed to the ESD. Just swap out .esd_trial.zip to .iso on the FTP or HTTP url and the ISO will download.
For some reason the FTP links fail on Chrome. Maybe Chrome doesn’t do FTP. The HTTP links do not work from here (which is why I unlinked them) because it checks your referrer. Just copy and paste it and it will work.
The ISO is 1,944.67 MB, so you will be downloading for a while. The advantage of the ESD is it only downloads the languages and the prerequisites you need. Much smaller download overall.
When you connect to the FTP server you get the following:
WARNING: This is a restricted access system. If you do not have explicit
permission to access this system, please disconnect immediately!
But I am assuming that Nick’s comment that it is available for anyone is explicit permission. I may be wrong.
Check out A first impression review of the Delphi 2009 trial. Not all roses, but positive overall.
We continue our discussion with Julian Bucknall, the Chief Technical Officer of DevExpress and the author Tomes of Delphi: Algorythms and Data Structures. We will be talking about the Generic TDictionary that comes with Delphi 2009, and the latest news with DevExpress.
It is official, Delphi 2009 has been released to manufacturing, and some lucky individuals are actually receiving downloads. I had a suspicion of this when I posted my podcast, but wanted to be sure. Nick Hodges posted a Twitter that he was “Sitting in on our internal company launch call,” which made me suspect it was the Delphi launch, but then Dr. Bob posted that he was sending out ESD licenses to BeNeLux customers, and now Anders has posted that it in fact was RTM at 4 PM on Sunday.
Happy day! Although I was expecting a press release or something really official looking like they did when they made it available for sale.
