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By tim, on August 25th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve installed the new Delphi from Embarcadero. I want to enthuse about this product, as a long-time Delphi enthusiast, but a few things have dampened my zeal:
1. The install on Windows 7 64-bit was not totally smooth. First Avira Antivir claimed that a file installed during setup, called convert.exe, contained a virus (not the fashionable
…continue reading Delphi and C++ Builder 2010 are out
By tim, on August 20th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterI found a real live instance of the Delphi-attacking virus W32/Induc-A yesterday. It was in the executable for FinalBurner Free from ProtectedSoft (ironic name in the circumstances), a decent freeware CD burning application. The file is burner.exe and I suspect the company has been shipping it for some time. I do not know if it
…continue reading Delphi developer virus exposes weakness in anti-virus defences
By tim, on June 18th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterEvans Data has published its 2009 Software Development Platforms survey, to which around 1200 developers contributed, scoring their chosen development tools in eighteen different categories.
The tools covered are Eclipse, Embarcadero’s Delphi, IBM’s Rational Suite, IntelliJ, Microsoft’s Visual Studio, NetBeans, Oracle JDeveloper and Sun Studio.
I was sorry not to see more products covered. Flex Builder
…continue reading Survey ranks developer tools, and reveals what developers care about most
By tim, on June 16th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterI had a long chat with Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams last week. I used a few snippets on the Reg – on cross-platform Delphi and Eclipse – and hope to post more from it shortly. In the meantime, here’s what he said about using native code rather than Java or other types of managed code
…continue reading Embarcadero CEO on cross-platform native code
By tim, on May 15th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero’s Delphi Live conference is running this week, and there are some interesting reports coming out. Robert Love has the best summary I’ve found so far. As I understand it, the next Delphi is codenamed “Weaver” and adds Windows 7 support, including the Touch APIs. More interesting is that this will be followed at some
…continue reading Delphi moving towards cross-platform, 64-bit
By tim, on May 6th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterIt is not unexpected, but still sad to see loss-making Borland acquired by Micro Focus for a knock-down price of $75m. Borland’s release says little beyond the financial details. Micro Focus, which is also acquiring Compuware’s ASQ (Automated Software Quality) tools (such as QADirector, DevPartner and Optimal Trace, I presume) says:
Acquiring Borland and the Compuware
…continue reading The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus
By tim, on November 28th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero / CodeGear has released RAD Studio 2009, which includes Delphi 2009, C++ Builder 2009 and Delphi Prism. Note that Prism has its own IDE, which is actually the Visual Studio shell; this is the new take on Delphi for .NET that targets Mono as well as Microsoft .NET. You can also install Prism into
…continue reading Embarcadero RAD Studio 2009 is done
By tim, on October 16th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterI created a simple Delphi wrapper for SQLite, the popular open source database library. I’ve just updated it to work with Delphi 2009 – I’m not happy with what I’ve done, because I’ve changed a bunch of declarations from PChar to PAnsiChar and from String to AnsiString, just to get it working quickly. SQLite is
…continue reading SQLite and Delphi 2009
By tim, on October 6th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero is to release Delphi for .NET as a Visual Studio add-on, called Prism. Marco Cantu has a summary. Note that according to this post, which is based on an announcement statement by product manager Nick Hodges at the SDN conference near Amsterdam, there will be:
full support for the .NET framework 3.5 (WinForms, WFP, Silverlight,
…continue reading Prism: official Delphi language comes to Visual Studio
By tim, on September 2nd, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterI have a couple of posts on a new blog aimed at IT Professionals:
Delphi: a secret weapon for Windows developers
Is Adobe Flex and Air in your future?
The latter post is already out of date, following Google’s Chrome announcement. In it, I summarize the different approach to Rich Internet Applications, and argue that rather than discussing
…continue reading It is time we stopped talking about Rich Internet Applications
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