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Remember the titans – 2

I was looking for information about Eli Boling and found no info about his whereabouts in regard to Remember the titans, but I have found interesting location on Borland Web-site by Danny Thorpe – this is not a blog, but something similar about projects Danny has been working on during his presence at Borland. I am going to quote it here since I suspect it might disappear after information published 😉 Last record is 2001 where page has been abandoned by the author.

Danny Thorpe, Staff Engineer, Delphi R&D, Borland Software Corporation  

These are the products and internal projects I’ve worked on over the past few years. Historical dates subject to change without notice.

Delphi 6 – May 2001
Most D6 compiler and RTL enhancements were a result of the Kylix efforts. Fortunately, Windows doesn’t inflict PIC codegen on us, but D6 benefited from the new internal assembler, language and directive enhancements introduced in Kylix, and new platform neutrality functions and constants carried over from the Kylix RTL. Function overload resolution got a little bit smarter, so WideString and AnsiString parameters in different function overloads were no longer considered ambiguous.

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By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Mac v PC. Fair game or Apple did it again

There are things in advertising I do not like – someone is trying to look better by making others look bad – cool/uncool, pretty/unpretty, old/new… list can continue… I did not see something like that coming from M$ recently, but as a user of iPod Touch, I visit Apple web-site often and it was hard to miss… Main page of www.apple.com has Christmas ads with old guy (PC), Santa and Cool guy (Mac) along with other one from here. We don’t know places to ask about PC after you bought it? Lousy, sorry… and not saying much good about Apple advertising department… US Cellular has its own campaign like that against other major players… I like Mac’s GUIs for long time, Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Remember the titans

Well… it is not about the movie. Nice movie though… Doing some research about Delphi you probably will immediately notice a page on wikipedia and off course there are a few well known names here. Everybody knows about Anders Hejlsberg, but let’s see what other ex-titans of Delphi world are doing these days – as it turned out Danny Thorpe after being at Google and Microsoft for some time finally settled at not that well known place called CoolIris. As it was indicated in his last entry in his MS blog, there are places better then Google, MS and Borland after all… You can read about his new adventures in his blog. Spirit of innovation always been something growing inside Borland and now CodeGear, Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Was: String parameters in Delphi

I think we all connected… “We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile”… weird… Do you know a rest of it? “But we’re not at home right now, so leave a message after the tone and we’ll assimilate you later… (beep)” 😉 (link) Ok, lets come back to the strings… 2 weeks ago Chris Bensen (CodeGear’s Sr. R&D engineer) wrote in his blog about STRING type being passed as parameter and what are associated “costs” for your application. Very good thing to read along with discussion. Of course many have known about this at some point while working with Delphi, but value of the post that it brings it all together and shows why it happens. More to it Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Is MS Volta a new VB for Web-Developers?

Web Development Using Only the Materials in the Room… Long history of Visual Basic gave a huge force of man power for simplified development for DOS and then Windows. And Microsoft was looking for years to have something similar in the Web-development domain. Everyone would agree that web-development today requires long hours of self education and constant follow up with many introduced almost every day technologies, libraries and languages – PHP, ASP, C#, Perl, Ruby… Microsoft is saying those days are over (didn’t they said about APS while back?) – answer is Volta. For now it is still in beta, but… The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago