The Podcast at Delphi.org

15 - Julian Bucknall on DevExpress

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:35:47 +0000

I got a chance to sit down with Julian Bucknall, the CTO of DevExpress at PDC2008 to talk about using DevExpress’ .NET products with CodeGear’s Delphi Prism from Embarcadero Technology.

Specifically we talk about the return of CodeRush to Delphi.

The microphone picked up all the background noise, which makes it a little hard to understand us, so I added captions.

Watch online:

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Delphi Feeds on Twitter

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:56:33 +0000

I just updated the Delphi Twitter directory with a few new additions, one specific one of note: Delphifeeds.com, your one stop shop for all Delphi blog feeds, is now posting updates via Twitter.

Thanks to Dennis Gurok (also on Twitter) and his team for all their great efforts!

PDC Exhibit Floor

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:43:51 +0000

I recorded a few videos at PDC 2008. This one is a walk through of the exhibit floor. I didn’t want to post all the videos at once, but I must admit I am posting them slower then I expected. A lot of that has to do with preparing for CodeRage.

I this video I walk through the Exhibit Floor and show off a few of the vendors. It is 9:48 long. Again it is available in your choice of formats. Let me know in the comments which is your favorite, or if there is one you really need to have (not just that you think is cool).

MP3 7 MB
WMV 91 MB
iPhone 72 MB
iPod 61 MB
avi (DivX) 56 MB

Robot Rage SDK Available

Jim McKeeth — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:41:48 +0000

The SDK / API / Framework is now available for the Revenge of Delphi Robot Rage. Check out the details page.

This time around it uses Delphi Prism and a much better API and Framework based on UT3 for your bots. I am sure you will find it much easier to work with, and way more powerful.

I am still looking into prizes and I need to set the time frame for entries. So much to do, so little time.

Stay tuned for more information and make sure you are registered for CodeRage III. See you at the final session!

Anders Hejlsberg on Programming Languages

Jim McKeeth — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:36:31 +0000

Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC) talking about Where are Programming Languages Going? He comes in at about 3:07 and opens with a demo of Turbo Pascal to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary this month.

I love the stats he opens with about where programming languages were when Turbo Pascal came out 25 years ago. A great talk!

Covers DSL, Functional Programming, LINQ, etc.

[Source] [Hat tip Olaf Monien via Twitter]

CodeRage III Sessions and Registration

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:37:53 +0000

David I just posted that CodeRage III sessions and registration is available now. There are a lot of really great looking sessions there too.

CodeRage III is a virtual conference that runs December 1-5, 2008 and is free to attend, if you register!

The Revenge of Delphi Robot Rage

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:54:51 +0000

Back in CodeRage II we saw the introduction of Delphi Robot Rage. Unfortunately the engine was a little buggy and didn’t work on all platforms. Well, for CodeRage III, Delphi Robot Rage is back with a vengeance (sounds cool anyway). A whole new engine, with more development options!

Details are here!

Getting the Latest JCL and JVCL

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:12:05 +0000

I went to install the latest JVCL today for Delphi 2009. I was surprised that JEDI stopped offering one download with both the JCL and JVCL. So I downloaded both, installing JCL first since it is required by JVCL. Well, JVCL gave me an error that I had the wrong version of the JCL installed.

So I went back to Sourceforge to look if I grabbed the wrong one. Sure enough, I had the September 9th version of each. I tried again, and it still didn’t work. So I figured I would get the latest from Subversion. After I installed the subversion client I discovered links to download the latest versions via the subversion web interface as a tar.gz file (no need to connect via subversion.) The links are not obvious, but really useful in my opinion, so I thought I would share them here:

[Check out the official daily link in the comments!]

One thing that is missing is the JVCL help, which you can download seperately (along with demos, etc.)

If you don’t have something that can open a tar.gz then get 7Zip. It does a two step process (extract the tar from the gz, then extract the files from the tar), but it gets the job done.

Hope that helps. Maybe I missed something and there is an easier way to get these packages. . . .

Episode 13 - Allen Bauer live at PDC2008

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:13:56 +0000

This was recorded live at PDC2008. You are getting it unedited and raw, but in your choice of formats: Audio or Video!

Talking about Delphi 2009 and Delphi Prism.
Discuss language compatibility going forward between the two languages.
Allen’s role in developing Delphi.
What is new with Embarcadero.
The future of .NET and Win32
Windows Azure
Multicore technology
Touch, Multitouch, Surface and Windows 7, and PDC2008!

Allen Bauer is the Chief Scientist working on Delphi for Embarcadero’s CodeGear. You can read his blog at the Oracle at Delphi and follow him on Twitter.

Whatever format you get, it is 10:49 long.

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Delphi Makes #8 on TPCI

Jim McKeeth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:38:52 +0000

The November TPCI is in, and Delphi has in fact made #8. C# also moved up to #7. It was September when Delphi returned to the top 10. In October it took 9th, bumping JavaScript, and this month it bumped Perl as it took 8th. Delphi continues to climb at a faster rate then C#, and it is only 0.02% behind C#, so it could still overtake it.

Delphi is competing for TIOBE’s “Language of the Year 2008 Award” together with C++ and Python.

Actually, if it continutes its rate of climb since September it could overtake Python as well, which would certainly help cinch its standing as language of the year. If I remember Python was last year, so I think it is Delphi’s turn.

So keep up the work of adding the phrase “Delphi Programming” to the text of all your pages about Delphi. While there are other phrases that count towards Delphi, they only take the highest phrase, which is currently “Delphi Programming” so lets focus on that.