Fresh Beginnings
For a blog that spanned almost four years, today marks a fresh beginnings. Stale content is put into quoted as a link to an older post. So you do not see the same old things. Removing old content...
View Articleex-Borlanders Pump and Dump style.
Correspondent from New York The former Borland is famous for not bothering about their products. The disaster started from dBase (1) (2) and continues to this very day. The old Philippe Kahn style of...
View ArticleTiobe Index: Delphi hits historic 12 year low.
(100 basis points = 1 percent) Delphi hit a 12 year low breaking earlier historic low 0.70% to go at 60.2 basis points. With only 60 basis points to go towards zero, here are some interesting ideas...
View ArticleA controversial shout to fellow 3rdparty developers....
From the Embarcadero newsgroups: Avoid selling products to the person identified by this email address:jingcuo (at) hotmail (dot) com Using WhoIS you will find the persons identity...
View ArticleDelphi: TeamB language?
Tiobe index recently re-classified Delphi as a team B language, from A, to A-- to B. Unserious language. Members of Team B would love this language. It is not serious for production usage, a hobbyist...
View ArticleJBuilder the joke Java IDE
Foreign Correspondent from UK The pointless IDE for Java JBuilder was born from the need to make Java software development a living hell than make Java the best server-side and client-side programming...
View ArticleDelphi Reporting Nightmares - Episode 4
Correspondent from New York. Less than an hour's drive from Amy's Baking Company "ABC" in Scottsdale Arizona is Nevrona. Chef DHB pays them a visit. Directions from ABC to Nevrona Four years ago,...
View ArticleHow not to handle Developer Relations
Delphi Developer relations were thorny since 1990's. What went wrong and how did it fail? Alien Nation Borland had this bad attitude of contempt towards developers for many years, driving the Borland...
View ArticleCross platform Moscrif Platform bites dust
Last year this blog posted in Article Corrections about why we do not recommend Moscrif: MoscrifThis blog cannot recommend Moscrif because the vendor was not contactable and no responses after...
View ArticleCross platform Moscrif Platform bites dust
Last year this blog posted in Article Corrections about why we do not recommend Moscrif:MoscrifThis blog cannot recommend Moscrif because the vendor was not contactable and no responses after December...
View ArticleHow not to handle Developer Relations
Delphi Developer relations were thorny since 1990's. What went wrong and how did it fail?Alien NationBorland had this bad attitude of contempt towards developers for many years, driving the Borland...
View ArticleXE4 and XE5 release dates?
Is Embarcadero switching to a 6 to 9 month model? XE4 is to be released in April 24 2013 https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=85916&tstart=0 XE5 is to be released in September 7...
View ArticleWhy design flaws are not fixed
Recently new Delphi have design flaws. In Jed's Embarcadero Don't hide bad design. This blog has been wondering what is wrong with Delphi. At Embarcadero, they do literally the minimum to meet QA...
View ArticleCarting away the old
Foreign correspondent from UK "Damn it! http://www.carterconsulting.org.uk/Site/Carter_Consulting.html Just two weeks ago there were few in-depth Delphi realted article, like a tutorial of the...
View ArticleDelphi in Ohio and Texas
Corespondent from New York Peak-Delphi? In other parts of USA, contracts and employment for Delphi has dried-up. It seems the peak-oil scenario where oil has stopped flowing is being played out in...
View ArticleGames Delphi developers play
Foreign Correspondent from UK. Delphi game developers are stupid people having too many copies of old Delphi versions and no game-development. This is the most anticipated response to Jason's...
View ArticleA Mysterious Thin Architecture
Correspondent from New York It has been four years since the cheap bastard article about Astatech and Wanted Alive: ASTA, A Smart Thin Architecture. By popular request, since the last coverage of...
View ArticleEmbarcadero Park
Your reviewer found a new Embarcadero Suite in Indonesia costing 3 trillion. That might be the right price for Delphi in order for Embarcadero to fix all the bugs in Delphi. There are toll bridges...
View ArticleLiveCode Summer Discount Price
LiveCode is having a $499 offer for their RunRev environment. http://summerschool.livecode.com/index.php/
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