Posted by Jim McKeeth on 3-Nov-2008
The November TPCI is in, and Delphi has in fact made #8. C# also moved up to #7. It was September when Delphi returned to the top 10. In October it took 9th, bumping JavaScript, and this month it bumped Perl as it took 8th. Delphi continues to climb at a faster rate then C#, [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 20-Oct-2008
Another round table discussion about latest news and developments. How the community can promote Delphi programming TPCI? Delphi Flash mob (details coming soon) PDC – Windows 7, Silverlight 2 Twitter Anonymous Methods Speed of TStringBuilder Garbage Collection and IDisposable / Dispose() in.Net Our guests today: Spirit of Delphi Award Winner and definitive Delphi author Marco [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 13-Oct-2008
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 [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 10-Oct-2008
Question for you: Q: What do Delphi, Kylix, Object Pascal, Free Pascal, Chrome and Oxygene all have in common? A: They all count towards Delphi’s score on the TIOBE index when you follow them by the word Programming! I remember when the Delphi IDE used the Object Pascal Programming language, then it changed to the [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 8-Oct-2008
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 [...]
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 4-Sep-2008
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 [...]