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4.1 – Julian Bucknall

Our guest today is Julian Bucknall, the Chief Technical Officer of DevExpress and the author Tomes of Delphi: Algorythms and Data Structures.  We will be talking about the new generic containers in Delphi 2009 and how to use them.

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TIOBE: Delphi in top 10 again after strong comeback

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 look across all the search engines to find hits that reference different programming languages.  For ever page it finds that says “Delphi programming” it considers that page to be related to Delphi.  It then weights it all and provides a ranking.

Both the Delphi programming langauge and the Pascal programming language (which might include Object Pascal since they don’t filter that) jumped 4 places since September of 2007.  I would think they should combine Delphi and Object Pascal.  Not sure how much of a difference that would make.  Interestingly the detail page on Delphi says the lowest it has ever been (since 2001) was 12th place, but the main page says it was 14th last year.  One of the two is wrong.  I don’t recall Delphi being the 14th, so maybe I am reading it wrong now.

Hat tip to Esteban Pacheco for the lead.  I usually check TIOBE, but I guess I forgot to.

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3 – Barry Kelly

In this episode we interview Barry Kelly who is one of the talented software engineers working on the Delphi compiler at Embarcadero’s CodeGear.  We will discusses native code garbage collectors, generics, Anonymous methods and more.

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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.

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Release Date for Delphi 2009 Announced

Nick Hodges just linked to an eWeek article that boldy places the release date of Delphi 2009 as 6 days from now on August 25th.

[UPDATE: This is when they will accept orders, shipping will occur later.]

Rather unusual for CodeGear to announce a release date in this manor.  Usually they announce the release date when they release it. Is this a case of eWeek misstating some facts?  Not the first time a news article has had some critical facts wrong.  Or did they slip up and break embargo and release the release date prematurely? [Update: Nick wasn’t aware that Michael Swindell has given them the date for the article.  All above board and accurate though.]

In my podcast on Monday I estimated it as next month, so it looks like I may have been too pessimistic.  Be sure this is one of the first questions I will be asking Nick for the podcast on next Monday.  Be sure to join us for that one.

In the very last paragraph they also give us the low down on pricing:

[UPDATE: This is upgrade pricing.]

The inclusion of pricing and release dates leads me to believe they have accurate data and just jumped the gun in publishing the article.  Or the Embacardo merge has resulted in a new way of announcing release dates and prices.

Also in the article was sourced as stating:

Great to see growth in the Delphi community.  250,000 developers, or 15% growth in 2 years is pretty good considering.

In answer to one of the proposed interview questions, the article also states that:

It also states that the Architect Edition is a new edition.  But I did some more checking, and there is an Architect edition of RAD Studio 2007:

Architect gets the full ECO package.  Granted I think the inclusion of ER/Studio in the 2009 Architect package is a great upgrade.  In additions to this nicely appointed Architect edition, I still am a strong believer in them keeping the Turbo or Personal editions going.  If we don’t introduce students, occupational programmers and new developers to Delphi then it will be hard to grow the community.

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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!