Delphi and C++ Builder 2010 are out

By tim, on August 25th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’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

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August 25th, 2009 | Category: delphi, embarcadero, software development, windows 7 | 16 comments

Delphi developer virus exposes weakness in anti-virus defences

By tim, on August 20th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I 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

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August 20th, 2009 | Category: delphi, embarcadero, software development | 12 comments

Survey ranks developer tools, and reveals what developers care about most

By tim, on June 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Evans 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

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June 18th, 2009 | Category: delphi, eclipse, embarcadero, open source, software development, visual studio, web authoring | 2 comments

Embarcadero CEO on cross-platform native code

By tim, on June 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I 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

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June 16th, 2009 | Category: delphi, embarcadero, software development | Leave a comment

Delphi moving towards cross-platform, 64-bit

By tim, on May 15th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero’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

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May 15th, 2009 | Category: codegear, delphi, embarcadero, software development | One comment

Embarcadero RAD Studio 2009 is done

By tim, on November 28th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero / 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

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November 28th, 2008 | Category: .net, delphi, embarcadero, software development, visual studio | 2 comments

Code for Mac Cocoa in Visual Studio – surprised to see this?

By tim, on November 9th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I grabbed this screenshot from a preview just installed:

It comes from Delphi Prism, a new product from Embarcadero/Codegear which lets you code for .NET using the Delphi language, an object-oriented version of Pascal. The product is not as new as it first appears. It is based on an existing product from RemObjects, called Oxygene,

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November 9th, 2008 | Category: .net, apple, codegear, embarcadero, mono, software development, windows | 12 comments

Prism: official Delphi language comes to Visual Studio

By tim, on October 6th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero 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,

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October 6th, 2008 | Category: borland, codegear, delphi, embarcadero, software development | 7 comments