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9 – CodeRage 3 and Delphi Prism

The reason for this special edition is there has been some big news lately and I wanted to go straight to the source to get you the facts on what is going on as soon as possible.

I tracked down Anders Ohlsson and Christine Ellis of Developer Relations at Embarcadero CodeGear to get the facts on CodeRage 3, an upcoming physical conference and the elusive Delphi Prism.  We also discuss plans for a Delphi flash mob at the PDC Open Spaces.

Delphi Twitters at PDC

Post a comment if you will be at PDC and include your Twitter page if you have one.

I will be at CodeRage and PDC.  See you there!

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Code Rage III: Call for Speakers

As was mentioned in this week’s Podcast, CodeRage III is coming.

Anders is currently looking for speakers.

As Anders mentioned, this is not to replace a face-to-face conference, but is only until a physical conference is scheduled.  I planning on submitting a few sessions.  I’ll see you all in the chat rooms!

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Free Delphi 2009 Handbook by Marco Cantu

Hopefully you all just got an email from Michael Swindell with the subject line “Product Update: Delphi and C++Builder Changes.”  The email address it comes from is “CodeGear from Embarcadero” <e-update@email.codegear.com>.  If not, then check your spam folders and furiously refresh your in-box until it shows up.

The email is a request to update your contact information (which seems like an odd request since they obviously have my email address), although I think it is just a matter of getting us to agree to a privacy policy / terms of use with the new company. I’m happy to maintain contact with CodeGear & Embarcadero, but the carrot they offer in return is a free PDF copy of Marco Cantu‘s yet to be released Delphi 2009 Handbook.

They will email the download link later.  I can hardly wait.  Now I just need to get an autographed hard copy.  I’ll be sure to pack a copy when I go to the physical Delphi conference CodeGear is planning.

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Delphi Win32 and .NET Diverging

I was really expecting someone to pick this up from the podcast and mention it.  If you listen at about 15:56 in the podcast, we hear Nick say the following about the .NET Roadmap.

Historically one of our strong .NET stories has been close compatibility with the .NET and Win32 compilers.  But as we have evaluated that we have found that doing that is kind of holding both compilers back to a certain degree.  And that compatibility story not as compelling as it necessarily was.  And so what we are looking at instead is a solution that departs or sort of begins to diverge away from that compatibility story.  And starts heading more towards complete support for the .NET framework kind of thing.  And so you’ll be seeing more information about that in the coming weeks.

Does this strike anyone else as huge news, or are you all just more patient then I am in waiting for the .NET roadmap?

What do you all think?

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Delphi 2009 Available for Order

We knew this day was coming, but it is still exciting it is here.  Nick Hodges has a nice collection of links for more information.  Be sure to check out his interview in the latest PodCast for even more details.

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2 – Nick Hodges

This very special episode features an interview with Nick Hodges, the Delphi Product Manager for Embarcadero‘s CodeGear.  A lot of great information and news on the changes with CodeGear and Delphi 2009.  This one is a little bit longer at 38:46 with all that we covered in our interview.  You will probably find it just flys by though.

Also check out our sponsors: Smart Inspect and Beyond Compare, both with new versions 3.0.  Beyond Compare has a 25% discount code for listeners to the podcast, good through the end of August, and Smart Inspect has a free copy for one lucky listener.  Check out the details on the giveway.

Music provided by Kevin MacLeod.

Thanks for all the great feedback and support!  Be sure to subscribe and leave comments via iTunes as well.

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Interview with Nick Hodges

I am collecting some questions to ask Nick in our interview this week.  If you have any questions you would like considered for the interview please include them here.  I want to interview him early this week, so post your questions right away.

I am experimenting with a new anti-spam system on this blog.  It claims no false positives, so no-one should be rejected.  If you have any trouble posting, please email me at ThePodCast@Delphi.org and hopefully the spam filter on my email doesn’t filter you too.

Update: Listen to the Interview.

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1 – Tiburon

It was a lot of work, but we have Episode 1 online.

This week I introduce you to the podcast and share some of the latest news on Tiburon.  Nick Hodges has agreed to be interviewed for next week’s episode, so be sure to check back for that.  Total run time is 18 minutes and 30 seconds since I know you are busy.

Special thanks to Scooter Software for sponsoring this podcast with the 25% discount code on Beyond Compare version 3 (listen to the podcast to get the code).  Also thanks to Jonathan Coulton for the music.

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What’s going on here?

There was a noticeable lack of a podcast covering Delphi programming specific topics.  Since I really wanted one to listen to I figured I might as well make one.  I’ll interview people in the Delphi community that I think are interesting, and explore news and technology that looks cool to me.

I am going to start out with a weekly audio podcast, but in the future I hope to add video podcasts (or whatever you want to call them) and textual articles as well.  It will be a lot of fun.  Let me know what you would like me to cover, and if I like the suggestion I might do it.

Just remember, Delphi Rocked before Dot Net did!

Update: Episode 1 is out!