Delphi April Fools

April 4, 2006

Delphi April Fools

Last saturday, April 1st, saw some interesting Delphi news... well, almost!

This year, April 1st didn't pass unnoticed in the Delphi community....

On the theme of "extreme" code portability, Delphi hits some interesting ancient platforms (from Vic-20 to IMSAI 8080), in a post by Michael Swindell.
Allen Bauer announces that DevCo has finally got for the rights to TObject.
Holgers finds a secret compiler switch.
Chirs Bensen uses Scrum at home.
Jakes has an unlikely buyer for Delphi (this is more a dream, that an April fool, and I did got email from people to confirm this news!)

But also outside of it. I really enoyed Google's Romance with its free "Contextual Date", a date they'll pay for you "while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for". Read the details, very funny indeed.

posted by marcocantu @ 11:00AM | 4 Comments [0 Pending]

4 Comments

Delphi April Fools

You forgot this one

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/borlandtov
studio/default.aspx

;-)

Comment by Roland [http://beensoft.blogspot.com] on April 4, 11:52

Delphi April Fools

// You forgot this one

//http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/borlandt
ov
//studio/default.aspx

;-)
Comment by Roland [http://beensoft.blogspot.com] on 
April 4, 11:52

I especially love number 2, especially when you 
think of VB programmers.

Comment by Tom Birch on April 4, 16:58

Delphi April Fools

I liked Holger's the best. He really had me going 
until about the second or third time I re-read his 
blog. I was all ready to try out those secret 
switches!

Interesting that you got email about mine. I figured 
the far-out nature of the headline, plus the 
obviously bogus quote from Tod would have made sure 
that everyone knew it was fake. But perhaps some 
people only saw the headline.

Comment by CaptainJake on April 4, 20:11

Delphi April Fools

I think that comments about delphi buyer, today, with
the actual problem (net 2.0, ......Compact
Framework.....) and the delay from borland, JAKE, are
very ¿ funny ? ¿ stupid ? ¿ ?

When i have time to loss I will think about you.

Comment by juan carlos on April 5, 00:12

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