award – The Podcast at Delphi.org

36 – Žarko Gaji?

Today we have a great interview with Silver Helmet of Delphi Legends Community Award winner Žarko Gaji? 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.

Community Nominee John 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:

Daniel R. Wolf of Delphi PRAXiS with the Gold award,
Zarko Gajic with the Silver award
Peter Below with the Bronze award.

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.