I am looking forward to seeing everyone at Delphi Live! 2010 in San Jose! This is an email I just received . . . With the great success of the inaugural event in 2009, Delphi Live! is coming back to San Jose from May 17-20. UPDATE: New dates announced. We are looking forward to another [...]
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 [...]
I consider this pretty exciting news. As of today Stack Overflow has awarded it’s first Delphi badge for users who earn 400 upvotes on questions tagged Delphi. I was actually quite surprised to be the first to receive it. Ever since Stack Overflow started I really wanted to see Delphi listed as one of the [...]
Previous Delphi community member Lino Tadros lives after his heart stopped and came out of a stroke induced comma on Christmas day. He is home and recovering now. After you read his post and wish him well, tell someone who is special to you that you love them and count your blessings. I know too [...]
I remember when I was getting started in Delphi programming (I started late with Delphi 2 as a long time Turbo Pascal developer) and I discovered the huge catalog of mostly free components on Torry.net I thought I was in heaven. Not only is Torry’s still updating with new components, tools, code samples and applications [...]
Last month Delphi was back in the top 10 for the TIOBE Programming Community Index for September. Well the numbers for October are out, and Delphi has kept on moving to position #9. It bumped JavaScript. I truly believe we are in the Delphi Renaissance. The way the TIOBE Index works is it looks for [...]
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 [...]
The TIOBE prorgamming langauge index is reporting that Delphi programming is in the top 10 again in September after a strong comeback. As always it is still a grade A rated language. It is great to see it back in the top 10. I guess that Embarcadero marketing is paying off. What the TIOBE index does is [...]
