Delphi

This comes as a result of discussion in the newsgroups. Is PHP slow or fast? Is PHP an advanced enough language to consider it to be a serious platform? Well, accordingly to information available on PHP.NET web-site there are about 20,000,000 domains running PHP as of today. http://www.php.net/usage.php PHP is Read more

CG tem is continuing to do a great work. Last night Nick has posted “small” review about work done lately by Documentation Team. http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/archive/2007/06/27/36554.aspx In his post he did mention a secret location we all need to know. Keep it in your locked drawer… http://cc.codegear.com/prodcat.aspx?prodid=1&catid=9

Marco in his blog brought very interesting point into discussion about future of VCL. It is very good post (as usual) and I would recommend to read it when you have a minute. But I want to look at VCL from the point of how big it affected Delphi. What is Read more

Ok, I have had some time to read updated road map and see what else has been changed. There is a new addition – Beyond “Commodore” – you might find it interesting. Hm… multi-core… nice… hopefully it will be in time… and not behind like it did happen with .Net. Read more

Nick just posted about update of Delphi roadmap http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/archive/2007/06/21/36220.aspx Do not miss it!

Steve Trefethen decided to leave CodeGear to pursue a new opportunity. http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/AnOpportunity.aspx Some could consider this as bad news but reality is that we are all people with our own ways in life. So let’s congratulate Steve and wish him Best wishes. Thank you for all great things you have done Read more

Should we dump VCL completly? I do not think so. You step back from VCL. Look at it. Abstract core level from any MS, Qt, VisualCLX, etc stuff. See what is needed to have rich visual and runtime functionality. Base classes. this will give you core – visual abstraction and Read more