Interesting TStreamAdapter class marked as fixed NOT
Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was wondering how Emb. closes bugs when it is still not fixed? Yesterday a colleague informed me that he added a workaround for a VCL bug (which we...
View ArticleGIF fix may cost Delphi developers another $400 or more
Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was amused at this bug where GIF in XE5 causes internal error. Whatever open-source projects are incorporated into Delphi, from the PNG, Jpeg, GIF, Regex,...
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Correspondent from New York Hopefully as time permits I will discuss about KendoUI, Titanium, LiveCode, Xamarin, JQuery Mobile, ObjectiveC, Oxygene, Smart Mobile Studio vs. Delphi XE5 for iOS and...
View ArticleDoes Delphi have what it takes in SA education?
Correspondent from New York An older version of Delphi (Delphi 6) is being forced on South African schools. Derek Keets wrote arguments against teaching Delphi on his blog. A certain Netizen wrote: I...
View ArticleEMBT's SSL certificate revoked?
Browsing the EMBT forums, you get this error message: Their SSL certificate got revoked as it was either comprised or revoked by the Certificate Authority.
View ArticleHelp wanted, 0 results?
Correspondent from New YorkIn a new stunning decision, Delphi comes with no iOS or Android help. Maybe the docs will get shipped in Delphi XE6?1. File|Open any iOS or Android FMX file2. Pick a class,...
View ArticleDelphi's support... What support?
Borland used to have legendary technical support. That was what made Paradox, Sidekick, former TurboPascal famous. Today, one decade later, there is almost no technical support. Everyone else -...
View ArticleDelphi's High Technical Debt
Delphi used to be low-cost, cheap, high-producitivty. After years of mismanagement, Delphi developers are finding it harder and harder to pay off their technical debt.Technical debt is incurred by...
View ArticleLife after Big E
Correspondent from New York Life after Embarcadero Last week, Marc had been happily advising people to jump from using Prism to RemObjects Oxygene. According to confidential sources, RemObjects (RO)...
View ArticleData Snap REST issues
After a few expeditions into the land of Embarcadero’s DataSnap REST, I can say that I am quite disappointed. In fact, I’m not even sure it qualifies as RESTful. One of the authors of the originally...
View ArticleTiobe Index: Delphi falls to new lows
Correspondent from New York The sky is falling Delphi has been in constant decline. Few people blog about Delphi, even fewer people reach out to ask questions. This month, Delphi reaches historic...
View ArticleStack Underpaid: Delphi
Correspondent from New York Your correspondent recently performed a study with Stack Exchange's Data Explorer to look at the questions tagged "Delphi". While Delphi's total number of questions grew...
View ArticleDelphi XE6 on March?
Correspondent from New York Delphi's release cycle is getting shorter and shorter. Last year, Delphi XE4 and XE5 was released. Guessing from previous release dates and current RadStudio discounts...
View ArticleEmbarcadero “AppWave” Licence Server Woes
I’m hoping this will help other people who have had problems using Embarcadero’s products with their “AppWave” licence server. For more on this story
View ArticleDelphi Whisper Numbers
Embarcadero's earnings has fallen 10% quarter by quarter, from double-digit highs in 2010. There seems to be no way to stop this precipitous decline. The cash cow died? In financial year 2013, Delphi...
View ArticleWhat's the secret? Unigui
In the past month, this blog has been getting hundreds of referrals from a members-only forum in unigui.com or forum.unigui.com (now goes to an invalid site) The referrals were to QA Dept Intraweb 9...
View ArticleInterbase, the poor-quality database engine
InterBase has become the poor quality database. Linux, OSX, BSD and Solaris dropped support There is only InterBase XE3 for Windows at this moment. While Emb.'s website states they support Linux, OSX,...
View ArticleApe Suite: De-evolution
Correspondent from New York As Embarcadero touts FMX as the next big thing, FMX internal architecture has changed significantly between XE, XE2, XE3, XE4 and XE5. The fast pace of evolving Delphi...
View ArticleTurboPower's QA Suite Recharged
Ten years has passed since TurboPower went out of business. They open-sourced all their libraries, except 3 programs - SleuthQA, TurboAnalyst for DOS and the CD Launcher when you launched the...
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