tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86959528189553980552012-01-27T14:10:04.247-05:00The Delphi Love-Hate affairDelphi Hatershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15833669175331711891noreply@blogger.comBlogger3501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695952818955398055.post-33738079320950797182012-01-26T03:46:00.001-05:002012-01-26T03:58:39.698-05:00

Correspondent from New York Previously featured: Delphi Programming Paradise In this blog, there are references towards unusual and predatory third-party contracts that Borland passed to Embarcadero. There have been dissent going around Delphi paradise about third-party vendors getting shafted by predatory pricing, vulture legalese and contracts detrimental to the Delphi community. What's

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Correspondent from New York Your correspondent looks with amusement over the uptick on activity from Delphi. The combine and delete trickThey eliminated FreePascal, the legitimate alternative to the cash-hungry Delphi. So poof, Free-Pascal and "Object Pascal" community, which is completely different from Delphi gets merged into Delphi for the TIOBE Index. If FreePascal was made separate, the

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After some time, it gets boring to see that OSX Lion is not supported by Delphi XE2 and 0 results on Google for solution.

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Foreign Correspondent from Belarus With additional reporting from our Ukraine correspondent Our correspondent who gives us TBits and TPieces from Minsk reports. Article corrected several times after clarifications Dissents who utilize foreign websites for buying products (and also to stir dissent (i.e., buying from FaceBook)) are targeted for per-usage fines. This new law also affects software

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Happy New Year Our reviewer, our correspondents wishes our readers a Happy New Year. We look forward to Delphi XE3 - will it be yet another Delphi version to milk Delphi developers of their hard-earned cash or another attempt to exorcise the TDemons? Will the next year be the last 361 days or will it be the dawn of a New Age, one where Delphi Haters and Delphi Lovers can live in peace?

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Foreign Correspondent from Hong Kong With translation help from our Correspondent in New York With updated information given from readers The problem with C++ Builder and Delphi in China is that Chinese C++ Builder and Delphi developers who try to help another land often end-up with loss of reputation, losing career prospects and no appreciation for their works. Case Background In China,

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H Says: After working in c++ builder for 3 days this is my new favorite blog!H, Thanks for the feedback!

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Correspondent from New York It never gets old. Three years later your correspondent still get these security warnings. Embarcardero should start considering getting replacements for their network guys. Three years and still same errors. Does David I. browse their own websites? Did they try browsing their web-sites from home or from say, when they visit other countries and cities

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Correspondent from New York Few days ago, your correspondent received a news alert from ZDNet "12 ways hardware makers screw up a perfectly good Windows PC". It is often quoted Delphi is good for making system utilities... Guess which Delphi apps are featured in ZDNet's article?

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Correspondent from New York Delphi developers are being robbed blind. They don't know when someone intruded on their servers (well..., most of them use shared hosting so it does not matter) or use such security systems that allows Ali Baba and the 40 thousand thieves to come in via back-doors, cracks, hacks, exploits because of bad security. "The main reason is it looks only me is worried

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Correspondent from New York DCMA notice reply Your correspondent was busy with house-cleaning and found an unusual DCMA notice. This blog removed all things about the Delphi 2010 white-hat, Delphi XE2 information. We did it voluntarily; you should have emailed a PDF file to us (preferably PDF/A and digitally signed by Embarcadero -- and also remember to remove any metadata on the PDF before

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Correspondent from New YorkOn the Embarcardero forums, there is an interesting question which will probably never be answered since IntraWeb is too proprietary to allow reverse proxies:https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=64002&tstart=0Other languages (e.g., PHP, Ruby, Java supports it). Delphi/IntraWeb... when?

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Correspondent from New York How not to trademark something™ When you trademark something, you need to make sure your name is unique. So whoever did the trademark searches either did bad jobs or came up with snigger-worthy names. For example, there's CodeRage: The feeling a programmer has towards another programmer (or team) when working with their shoddy code. This poorly designed

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Correspondent from New YorkSteve Jobs knew a thing or two about third-party vendors. Steve calls it third party layer. In his article Thoughts on Flash, he describes succinctly about third party: "We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and

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Foreign Correspondent from UK In the mailbag, there is an amusing post on PasteBin about an InstallAware employee. Whether it is true or not, your correspondent did find it amusing that certain shareware websites with download links to InstallAware trial have Royi Sher as the author of InstallAware.

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Correspondent from New York Critical Thinking Dept. When this blog started out, it was meant to be a think-tank for the worsening Delphi programming situation. The group of people behind this blog thought it would improve, but it has steadily worsened over the years. Our blog went against many people, notably - the owners (i.e., the vendors - first-party, second-party, third-party and

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Correspondent from New York Headed South for Winter In shocking sign of decline, the TIOBE index November 2011 reports steep decline for Delphi. Even with the CodeRage, EKON conference running during October, that has failed to increase the popularity of Delphi. Delphi for 64-bits, Delphi for NET, ...Delphi x64 was introduced with little fan-fare. It caused a 60-basis increase points (to 140

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Correspondent from New York Was away for a month due to house repairs. Follow-up from our last post: http://delphihaters.blogspot.com/2011/08/bricksoft-im-strange-messaging.html The person, buddy_isg (presumably the vendor Mr. Jiang himself) posted on another forum, whose response elicited an interesting reply: "you're totally wrong... some years ago a friend of mine bought msn im without

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Correspondent from New York Delphi MacroEconomics An interesting article came upon a beloved Delphi lover. You can read the blog post and then come back to this blog. The problem with Delphi goes like this: (See the above picture). Money flows into the business from ShareIT, Plimus or RegNow or DigitalRiver or supported indirectly from sales of other products. The business owner then

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Correspondent from New York Doing spring cleaning the past weeks Technical Support, the other side Customer: Good morning. Hi, I have a problem with your app. It keeps barfing, having plenty of access violations and we are getting tired of bugs, stop screwing us around and fix your damn bugs. Vendor: What bugs? My apps. we produce are of excellent quality, we have plenty of documentation,

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Foreign Correspondent from Hong Kong. Follow-up on "Delphi Financials: Why so expensive in Hong Kong" Reverse Off-Shoring In the past, Corporate CEOs would move jobs off-shore to save on taxes, save on dollars. The idea is, have people work for less and less money for more and more work. Instead of hiring 2 American Delphi developers, you could hire 10 Chinese Delphi developers instead. This

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Correspondent from New York Delphi Lovers contacting Induc virus after unsafe downloading Delphi Lovers often take part in massive file-sharing love of Delphi components. It seems that they could catch a nasty virus on their computer which unwittingly is compiled to their Apps. The Anti-Virus vendor with their ESET antiretroviral therapy & suite detected a virus/malware that is spreading like

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Fibbing about number of Delphi developers When you tell the truth about the number of users, you get correct valuations on prices in that product's Ecosystem. In the iOS world, you get very inexpensive Apps that cost a dollar or two dollars each. That is because more than a million users would buy products and services. One App can return a million dollars over

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Correspondent from New Yorkdanny_thorpe: Embarcadero laid off 7 ppl in Scotts Valley yesterday, approx 1/3 of #Delphi team. RTL, VCL, IDE devs. No official stmt. #layoffs A year ago, Mr. Nick Hodges put on his resume he manages a team of 14 people (excluding himself). Later after DelphiHaters' blog published this fact, that line on his resume was removed. Since 1/3 of the Delphi team was laid

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@ND: Glad to see you've become a better person. :)

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Correspondent from New YorkYour correspondent was sooo happy when it was announced the Play Station Suite SDK supports C#. Since C# language specifications and C#-related bindings are standardized (ECMA-344), they can be ported to many different platforms than Windows, such as embedded-systems, XBOX, iPad and now Play Station products.Many Delphi developers unwittingly buy beautiful games with

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From our correspondent from Reno, Nevada Goodness, Embarcadero went from hiring spree to firing spree. They could have taken task to save jobs, like making employees aware about saving costs or keeping in deadlines while maximizing productivity. From your correspondent's friends in the State of California, there are employment plans - Work Sharing and WARN. Could Embarcadero have explored other

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Correspondent from New York On Danny's twitter feed:https://twitter.com/danny_thorpe To celebrate the release of Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey products, Embarcadero is rewarding the team with pink slips. #layoffs #delphiLive https://twitter.com/#!/danny_thorpe/status/114374253842927616 @DelphiDev More than 2 in Scotts Valley . Emb media contact not answering phone. Hmm... https://twitter.com/#!

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Delphi Love Sonnet Delphi Lovers rejoice: A TeamB member with anti-Delphi stance is gotten rid of. They should also get rid of TeamB Delphi-Lead - Craig Stuntz, who almost exclusively posts about Visual Studio and ASP.NET on the TeamB blog. That way, almost all the pollution about Visual Studio on TeamB's blog website would disappear. Then again, there would be

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Correspondent from New York (Give me hope Joanna refers to the song by Eddy Grant) Your correspondent recently read TeamB member Joanna Carter was removed because she decided to dissent about unfair Euros and US$ conversion rate that Embarcadero was using. This blog also dissents against the absurdly high prices that UK (including Scotland, Wales & Isles) folks and Europeans are paying for

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Correspondent from New York See TIOBE index for Sept 2011. Top language? Delphi used to be one of the top languages to learn. Learning Delphi was a stepping stone towards harder languages that use curly braces { } and mathematical operators. The TIOBE index now reports that Delphi has fallen from grace and Ruby and Javascript have taken the crown for #9 and #10. The most dysfunctional

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Correspondent from New York @JaimyAzle: The XE2 release was indeed very exiting. However, with several old delphi projects had been discontinued and unmaintained, while our delphi code (alive and used) was just only left to 20% from our total code base on existing live projects. I found It was hard to find reasons to propose XE2 upgrade to the management. :( If 20% of your source code

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Correspondent from New York Hi Jennifer-Ashley, There are four well-known trolls in the Delphi community who are posting insults at you. They are: - Rick Carter, - Keven Powick, - Markus Humm (Pseudonym) - David Erbas-White The Delphi Delusion Anyone who does not agree with the fact that Delphi is the greatest, the best IDE ever, is considered an enemy of Delphi. These

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Correspondent from New York Following up from QA Dept: Help Wanted, Sarcasm and useless comments needed Post Source It's off to off-topic for further harassmentThere are few reasons why Embarcadero.off-topic newsgroup exists: The first reason is to get Delphi developers to stay up all night acting like an unpaid busy-body (or underpaid newsgroup volunteer) monitoring the newsgroups all day

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Correspondent from Reno, Nevada Joining this blog is our new correspondent from Reno, Nevada. He owns small software business developing Delphi software. Howdy there! I've been reading this blog and gotta say - this is one hell of a blog with all the bluebells and whistle-blowing. I want to add my 2¢ to this blog and I'm madder than ever about this recession and mess with Delphi. Today I

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Correspondent from New York Follow-up on the article QA Dept: Just want we needed: Less examples Help Wanted, Sarcasm and useless comments needed. The state of Delphi Help is so decrepit that people who buy the Delphi XE2 starter edition have no help, no useful code-completion and no community help. For example, install Visual Studio. Help works (either you get redirected on-line if not

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Correspondent from New York The Road to Riches or Road to Poverty? Software is a business which defies the old classic manufacturing laws. The old manufacturing laws was about creating goods from raw materials and having well coordinated supply chain. The software business is about writing good code and making money with per-user or per-computer licenses. We examine how Delphi and C++

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Correspondent from New York There is currently some discussion (1) about where the name 'XE' comes from. One possible theory is they used the website www.xe.com because Embarcadero uses this ridiculous exchange-rate where US$1 = Euros 1. In Europe, the cost of Delphi is almost 48% higher than in USA. Possible interpretation for above image:Does EUR 1 = USD 1? (1) Posting Source

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"Hello, any news about the new QC middleware or even the new or reworked web client? It got silent about these after John K. left."Post Source"Is there some why to tell Embarcadero just how slow this network is? Smoke signals? Snail Mail? I cannot find an email link to anyone that might be watching this web site. It needs help ! For a test I hit the Help | About just above and it took 35

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Subject: "No code insight/completion in Starter?""That would render it useless for me.Post Source

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"Bob, as much as a nice person you are I would appreciate if you stopped pushing that "reseller idea" around. You are doing it in almost every post of yours ("contact your reseller, who is your reseller, I am a reseller"). I understand this is your bread and butter but you have to understand that vast majority of people here don't need resellers, to put it nicely. A less nicer version would

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Responses from Mr. Marc Hoffman on the "Dark Side of Apple":"Here's how you enter a new development platform, of you're this Delphi developer: Step one, compare the platform vendor to the Nazis. Step two, piss all over the existing tools that everyone else developing for that platform has been (successfully) using (Bonus points will be given for for consistently spelling the tools' names

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Around the web: Delphi code becoming unwieldy?"With the last iterations, I've got the feeling that Delphi code is becoming more and more unwieldy, verbose and, well, bloated. When I say "Delphi", I mean "Delphi", other Pascal dialects have introduced more elegant forms (Prism/Oxygen especially), and have at the very least tried to fight entropy. Just a few examples: - anonymous methods syntax

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Correspondent from New York Apple Control Bashing or Windows Apps Failure?There are two sides of failure: the bright side and dark side. Some people learn from their mistakes and improve, some people are stuck in the rut and cannot see why they fail. Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Usability and QualityTake an average Mac OSX app. and Windows app: - The Mac developer would design the App

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Correspondent from New YorkDelphi XE2 has been released and these are the top ten quotes from Delphi Lovers:"Req: Delphi and C++ Builder Compiler 64-bit source code"."Help me! I very much need serial or crack for Delphi XE2""Please help me, where can I found Delphi XE2 ISO?""I need good medicine for Delphi XE2""Please upload Delphi XE2 ISO to MediaShare"."Re-upload part 35/40 again, the download

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Correspondent from New York One of our readers made a SciMark C++ version of the same Delphi SciMark codes. scimark2_1c_cbuilder.exe compiled with XE2 C++ builder: ** ** ** SciMark2 Numeric Benchmark, see http://math.nist.gov/scimark ** ** for details. (Results can be submitted to pozo@nist.gov) ** **

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Correspondent from New York who is relaxing in a huge castle surrounded by moats (hint: hotel in flooded area). Corel, Borland, CodeGear, DevCo and Company Almost every year since 1996, Corel would release a new version of Corel Office. Before Novell brought over WordPerfect Corporation, (Borland brought the rights for Novell Office and divested that right to Corel) WordPerfect was the

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Help wanted: many correct examples needed Your correspondent was smiling at Delphi developers who say they don't need any examples or demonstration codes. Is nobody's going to help you? The biggest problem with Delphi is the lack of working codes. That means demonstration applications that work, best practices in code form, ways how to make a stellar application

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Short Film Clip Caption: Suicide in C#. Credit: Channel 4

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Your correspondent was observing someone who urgently could not login to post. May your correspondent present -- the BBC version of this:

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Filling-in for the New York correspondent - who is canoeing and surfboarding on river-roads somewhere in New Jersey. Russian Delphi Masters... On the VinGrad.ru forums, there is a discussion around IntraWeb with some nice language - "Сразу столкнулся с проблемой этих грёбанных индийцев".

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Correspondent from New York, Foreign Correspondent from UK SAAS Software As A Service (SAAS) is completely different computing model from old-school desktop based development. This means scalable, instantly deployment, asynchronous messaging and queuing, federated identity management, direct payment schemes (e.g., direct interface with PayPal IPN), non-SQL based database-systems (e.g.,

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Your correspondent was having some tea and wondering, if there were other framework choices, what would be the best choice? The cross-platform frameworks... First, there is QT and WxWidgets. QT cannot be used with C++ Builder's compiler so there is no mention of C++ Builder on Nokia's QT website. Same for WxWidgets. Yeah, there is TwinForms but no easy way to move

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Correspondent from New York How ready is your house to go underwater or shaken (but not stirred)? Around my area the winds are howling and heavy rain drenching the streets. Here are some disaster recovery advice for those who are around the New York area: a) Do you have remote backup facilities? For example, you do a massive FTP to your server in Atlanta or West Coast or to a on-line remote

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Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was looking at this amusing forum post about "Phishing Email?" and wondered about spamming. Indy and Spam The freeware Indy library comes with a SMTP sender which sends an email to a mail server. The email is stamped with 'X-Mail Name: Indy Library XX.XXX.' Unfortunately for 99.99% of the world's Delphi users, Yahoo, Google, Hotmail blocks Indy

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Correspondent from New York Your correspondent is not sure what to make of this, but the comments for some your correspondent's blog postings are. Some of them look a bit spammy. Your correspondent received some correspondence from them and will post their comments here anyway: "When you have Herpes, HIV/AIDS, HPV,or any other STD, it can feel like you are all alone in the world

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DelphiHaters' blog ranks high on several search engines for the following keywords: Nevrona Reports. Delphi Javascript DevExpress VCL Delphi 2012 Delphi XE2 Delphi ModelMaker "Are there any Delphi jobs?" Delphi Newsgroup Reader Delphi 64-bits Delphi FireMonkey Delphi FL Studio Delphi Download Delphi 2011 Delphi Love Delphi Lover Bricksoft KbmMemTable Delphi ShellPlus Delphi

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Foreign Correspondent from UK Our correspondent in New York is having a shake, rattle and roll time. The other blog which caught the former Morfik posts "Morfik Doing a Borland? I don't think so" tried to twist a bad post to a happy post. But Mr. Jon L. Aasenden said it well: "But all this power sadly comes with one major drawback: it requires the same dedicated server infrastructure that

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Correspondent from New York Article background: Secret of Delphi Island The 'Secret of Monkey Island' series had an interesting secret: The whole game evolved around a secret which GuyBush ThreepWood tries to find. Your correspondent speculates it is 'Delphi'. The word 'Dinky Island' is quite close to Delphi so the whole series of game might be about software development. See how the below (

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Correspondent from New York In our last blog post "QA Dept: Marketing Double-speak" there is double-digit growth and things are looking rosy and happy. If there is double-digit growth, why is there a need to do an annual world tour? Maybe there is lack of local leaders? There is this "Get a free Delphi/FireMonkey notebook at US and Canada World Tour events". The developers not in USA and

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The Road to Delphi is full of Chilean tacos el yaqui.

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Correspondent from New York Let's see the double-speak: there is double-digit growth. In common language it means: many more developers forced to upgrade to get discounted prices. The upgrade by date for older versions of Delphi or C++ Builder is over. They are then forced to upgrade every year to get the latest offerings or no updates and bye-bye. Delphi surpasses two million users.

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Correspondent from New York Embarcadero currently has a poll which your correspondent would like to add some fuel to the controversy. (It's on their facebook page). Here are some other biggest problems faced: a) Fraudulent or dishonest third-party vendors. This is the single contributing factor towards why "the company has no budget" or "moved on from Delphi and no longer uses it". Your

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 Correspondent from New York Article Background Almost a decade ago Delphi 6 came out with CLX or cross-platform wrappers for Linux. There were gravity-defying advertisements telling how easily Delphi and C++ developers could migrate their apps to Linux easily and have one-source-code-base for both Windows and Linux. When Kylix 1 came out, it was supposed to revolutionize software development

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Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was doing some Delphi conversion to embedded Lua (so the final result works with iPad) and looked-up the usual locations - using Search, then DelphiPages, then Torry's (the Swiss Delphi Center) and found an unusual website called DelphiFAQ.com The DelphiFAQ.com website has not have much Delphi site content and some of them are very old but the

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On a certain forum: "I was browsing www.tindex.net and studying the list of improvements in recent delphi versions recently. Here's my 2 cents... What once used to be touted as the VB-killer, is now merely a native Pascal-clone of C# (and a poor one at that). Generics? Java & C# had enjoyed it for years. Even C++ had STL long before generics - yet, the Delphi team was able to grasp the idea

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On a certain forum: "Subject: FastReport.net = stolen? rebranded? StimulSoft? The talented Russian developer Alexander Tzyganenko - author of FastReports - is no stranger when it comes to illegally copying (and improving upon) others source code. Those who have been developing in Delphi for a while, will recall the allegation by Digital Metaphors against Mr. Alexander. DM had accused

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Correspondent from New York In our article "Delphi Economics: Want more money? Work issues (Part IV)" there was an interesting comment about the 'Lazy generation' (comment #4). Let your correspondent elaborate more about the lazy generation: Form Designer Dept: The source code of the original Forms Designer loader (from *.res) and from and to disk (*.dfm) can be found in Delphi 3, 4, 5.

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Correspondent from New York Bricksoft's IM Suite This Instant Messaging is protected by with Delphi's 3rd best copy-protection scheme. The first award goes to ABBYY Delphi SDK which requires physical IKEY USB stick and all customers you deploy to requires a USB stick each, the second goes to Advantage Server which uses HASP and remote peer-to-peer deactivation. You can read the previous

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Correspondent from New York SQL.RU forum On the SQL.ru forum (source), we get kudos from some developers there. RDP and DxScene: As-Salamu Alaykum - On our article about RDP and DxScene, we have Terminal Server here and RDP usage. If the article is wrong it will be corrected. R: We did air your grievances. A: Mercy is not strained - one of our foreign correspondents is in the same country

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Correspondent from New York The high cost of Delphi is having side-effects with Raize Software: - Their Raize Components Set is not officially supported with Delphi/CBB XE (or the vendor is not interested to produce yet another set of DPKs and BPLs for Delphi and CBB XE). - They used to have newsgroup server but now they are in recession-mode and need to save every dollar. They replaced it

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Correspondent from New York On our desk after some discussions and voting, this blog has removed posts regarding A (alias W), D, D and others. As to whether or not it mattered, it must be remembered this is a happy family: for one of them calls others their nieces and nephews. For us, we are different and see beyond geographical distance and call them brothers and sisters in need. If

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Correspondent from New York Here is the Bills of Material for Tony Caduto's software, Lighting Admin: - Delphi 2009-->2010-->XE (US$800 with SA) - DevExpress (must be a subscription - US$1499.99) - Raize (US$399) - LMD (US$349) - Jedi VCL (free) - PostGressDAC from MicroOlap (US$299.95) - FastReports Professional (US$249) - Scalabium's Export/Import components (EUR 50 + 50) - Addict Spell

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Correspondent from New York The most cheapest version of Delphi and C++ Builder is found in USA. It is in Programmer's Paradise ("PP") (US$889.99) with no taxes if you are out-of-state. That is, if you live in CA, then order from PP If you live in New Jersey, order it from EMB. If your state collects tax from Internet companies selling out of state - tough luck. The EULA in Delphi and C++

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Correspondent from New York Buy Now? Has anyone noticed the buy-now link is broken for more than 2 days? Here are some possible reasons nobody noticed it: a) Very few people buy Delphi, C++ Builder or RadPHP. So nobody noticed this error. b) Nobody at Emb. checks their own site (unless someone points this out to them). c) They make so little revenue from the website that it probably

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Correspondent from New York This question came to our email but is very relevant about Delphi jobs drying up. We have re-phrased the questions a bit to protect the privacy of this person. Dear DH,I'm a Delphi developer with 10 years of working experience. But now, all my Delphi contracts and jobs have dried-up. I have tried getting another job, I have send more than 500 resumes to various

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Correspondent from New York Why make promises when you can't keep them? When this Delphi x64 project started, people waited 6 years (since 2005) for 64-bits. It is almost end of 2011... SA (Software Assurance) and yearly upgrades - enough time to ship a working product? Every year, former Borland had to ship a new version of Delphi. Be it, Delphi 5/6/7/8-NET/2005/2007/2009/2010/XE, C++

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Correspondent from New York David I's article want more peace reminded me of the 1960's - when the Roosevelt administration authorized the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. Back then, "gay" meant happy and care-free. The only "gay" that was newsworthy was the "Enola gay" and boys were called boy-girls. Days after the dropping of the atomic bomb, the Japanese surrendered. Many former Japanese and

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Correspondent from New York Want more money? It's almost pay day and you receive your check / or money banked to your bank account. In every country, Delphi developers are getting what seems to be less, lesser and lesser every year. We look at elements of productivity, knowledge and ways how Delphi developers are being constantly short-changed. Unfair EULA and other stupid clauses Almost

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Correspondent from New York "I don't want to be a pain in the a$$, but have you checked the UrbanDictonary meaning for Fire Monkey?" Hint:" I presume you didn't click on the "more" at the bottom..." Source

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Correspondent from New York To get some idea how much Embaracadero feels about the 85% of Delphi developers that we mentioned in our previous article, the Delphi world tour excludes countries where the cost of Delphi exceeds wages paid to develop Delphi apps in those countries. Meet the Developers: Only rich developers need apply The RAD studio world tour is a reflection of our earlier

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Correspondent from New York Leaders? Your correspondent was looking at this interesting fact: There are approx. 300,000 active Delphi developers in the whole world. By conventional wisdom, there would be 30,000 experts by now, of which - 30,000 / 150 countries = 200 leaders per country. You could possibly get help from a community or local expert near you, but there seems to be no experts.

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Multiple correspondents from around the world - with direct reporting from Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Myanmar, Brazil, China (Mongolia, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong - SAR), Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, West Bank & Gaza Strip, Israel, Germany, New Delphi Delhi, Jakarta - Indonesia, Tehran - Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New

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Correspondent from New York Upcoming Crapp Wave? The good-bad thing about Delphi is that it allows you to easily create bad apps and if you don't like your customers - screw them, delete posts on your website's forum and also delete that pesky user account too... Now with the AppStore, you cannot remove bad comments from your users unless you truly resolve issues. http://itunes.apple.com/us/

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Correspondent from New York So the new game in town is FireMonkey... This is similar problem to the DXScene where it simply does not work under Remote Desktop. You are using XenApp (Citrix Virtualization on Windows 2008 server) and want to use that spanking new FireMonkey app with your new XenApp Box. Whoops. No GPU acceleration. App crashes. You ask the developers to get a solution fast. No

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@T: As to whether or not your comment is moderated or not, we do approve almost all the comments on this blog less the insulting ones. Our moderation is same as on the forum you are on, and if you change the tone of your comments they will get approved. Both you and our correspondents are both loyal adversaries - you love Delphi but blinded by the delusion and for us, it is for us to point out

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Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was looking at this amusing forum post. Do you really expect Delphi XE2 for free? LOL

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Correspondent from New York We'd like to give someone (in Brazil) very warm welcome to this blog: This blog reached more than 1,000,000 hits cumulative total.

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Caption: Joe the code-monkey coding in the background. Correspondent from New York Your correspondent was looking at the new FireMonkey demos from Andre's blog and realized that your correspondent had FireMonkey since 3 or maybe 4 years ago. You see, the 'FireMonkey' screenshots shown on Andre's blog is just a rehash of KSDEV VGScene and DXScene demos. I think I'll just need to recompile my

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Foreign Correspondent from New York Your correspondent, a Delphi lover, wonders which version of Delphi did they use and which libs, since they seem to have lots of issues with Unicode. It has been suggested that most of the ANSI serial communication required to communicate between devices do not work so well with UTF16 commands and also, newer devices uses USB, which require a new set

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Correspondent from New York Dear Embarcadero, Please remove one user off your beta list. Yours faithfully, DelphiHater and company. Update 1: Please note the pixel-perfect 'editing' of the image. Woo hoo :) Making trouble for others. Now with this "advertising campaign", another 50,000 people will read this blog. I'm a loyal Delphi developer. I defend Delphi on those forums. I make

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Correspondent from New York Small gem found in the Emb. newsgroups: "I upgraded a project a few weeks back to XE and it simply applied its own formatting rules to the project when it upgraded it. It didn't ask me and made a huge mess of the formatting. This was bad enough but over the last few days I've been encountering bizarre 'coding errors'. In each case parenthesis were missing from the

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Correspondent from New York [Parody of Winds of Changes, Scorpions] Wings of Wind: Changes In an August summer day, take me to the company of tomorrow, one that uses Secured PDFs, Digital Signatures and Geographical location services. Did you ever think that using the Fax Machine was obsolete? When you update your Software Assurance, They need you to fax your form and signature, The future

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Hop, hop, hop, the story continued from Elite Bunny Insider a certain bunny was having the best carrots and lettuce you could ever imagine. Looking back, wondered how the rest of the bunny's friends could join (and come unto this place). This bunny tells time on Earth from the latest person this bunny could find who find and ask them what time they passed away - there is no time where this

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Correspondent from New York Morning Sam, Morning Ralf[1]. > I really ought not to waste my time on people that obviously have no sense of business, no sense of software production, no sense of honor... actually no sense at all, just to mention a few things they demonstrate not having. Why is it that most of the Delphi developers have "left" Delphi and never returned? It's the

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Correspondent from New YorkIt is good to see intelligent responses towards questions raised. Filling in for our Foreign Correspondent from Belgium - he is on a sabbatical. More RAM pagination May your correspondent ask:1) How many people do you know of use Windows 95 or Windows 98 today? If your correspondent was to advise someone to buy a first computer, your correspondent would advise to get an

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Correspondent from New York Ever since this ridiculous "Made in Borland" sticker came about and "Borland Nation", your correspondent gives a hilarious take on the Borland (or Embarcadero) Constitution: 1) There is the right to insult your religion, to insult whatever your character on the town-hall newsgroups. If you dare criticize Delphi or C++ builder, any pot-shots said against you will be

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Correspondent from New York The Borland Studio for Health and Beauty: "Our aim is for you to feel completely relaxed during your visit and to fully enjoy the time spent with one of our professional friendly therapists, all of whom are dedicated to providing the highest level of service." http://www.theborlandstudio.co.uk/contact2.cfm

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Correspondent from New York Ignorance is bliss, except we are not children There was a time when all of us didn't know anything. We had to learn to write, learn to read, learn to speak coherently, learn mathematics, learn sciences, literature. As we grew older, we made choices that eventually lead us to our career. By conventional thinking, our career should earn for us a good living,

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Foreign Correspondent from Belgium Your correspondent early this morning received some discussion about the last article, Death Express Racing. Here are more fraud control advice for those having their own credit-card processing website: Enable Direct Settlement Direct Settlement means getting money from the Bank immediately. This is not available from SHAREIT (Germany) nor DIGITALRIVER.

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