Talk about Technologies, Software Architecture and Management

Buying a car? Use your computer first

This is a story which was reminded by the recent Steve’s post. Yes, few years ago we were at the point deciding about our new car. One which my wife will like, off course. And I want to give her a credit – idea was totally hers. So this is how it went back then and I will do this again a next time. try different cars to figure out a set you like then see what is said about them in reviews Check online resources for prices advertised in your desired area [ADDED] then… instead of going to the dealer… send THEM an email it works between dealers in 100 miles radius – many big enough dealers have an on-line department Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

PHP. To be or not to be. Or. To use or not to use.

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 5th popular language in the world after Java, C, C++ and VB. We cannot say the same about Delphi, which comes 13th: http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm There is more statistics here http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/16990-php_statistics_for_april_2007.php Well. Why question was raised? There is this misconception about PHP not being serious enough language with luck of features and slow speed. This is simply not true. Or: it is true about any language or software platform when it comes Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Delphi and VCL – looking back

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 Delphi and what is VCL? How close was their relationship over the years? Is Delphi a VCL or is VCL a Delphi? It is hard to determine what is primary and what is secondary. What was first chicken or egg? Sacramental question, isn’t it? Let’s see… When Delphi 1 was introduced back in 1995 or even earlier when things just start to be put together in 1993, Borland Pascal and Borland Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Hawaii.

We are going to see Hawaii and Maui in particular. Wow!!! Well… in 7 years being in US we had a chance to visit many places in California, Oregon, Washington and Texas. 2 years ago we have taken a tour to Wisconsin passing 6 other states on our way here. This makes it 11 out of 50 States. No, I am not counting those airport stops… So now it will be 12. We have decided to stay at Maui. We are expecting it to be a nice tour… and intentions are not to just stay all days on the beach but make all way around the island. Photos will be taken, places will be visited and you can expect more to be posted in this Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Update for Delphi roadmap – looking around

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. Another “research” project to mention is cross-compilation. Somehow this addition has appeared after my original post about VCL 2.0. Coincidence?! As I mentioned earlier, I was sure that CodeGear is paying attention to the question discussed and was already doing research on the subject. And updated road map just supported my thoughts. Way to go!!!! One thing though, might be it will be great to see some of the cooking a Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago