November 18, 2009
Links: War for Web, Image Swirl, Delphi 2010 Review
Too little time and too many interesting links, so I'm summing that up in a single post, even if the three topics are totally unrelated.
Tim O'Reilly on "The War of the Web"
Tim O'Reilly blogged about "The War of the Web". I guess this is something that might become a milestone, as web giants like Facebook and Microsoft (and Google, even if to a lesser extent -- at or least more subtle one) are trying to turn the web into their web. A must read article for anyone looking into web technologies and social networks, and a relatively short one. As a use of social web sites, I hate those that try to "confine" you... and let see how this post looks on Facebook (where it appears both through the RSS feed and the Twitter title posting).
Delphi 2010 Review
There has been a very nice review of Delphi 2010 that is worth mentioning. It is on TechRepublic at http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=1924. Not taht is is terribly technical, but it is quite positive... and it is nice to see the company push for reviews rather than hide them (as it happened).
Delphi Image Swirl
Google Lab's Image Swirl is impressive, in both the capability to notice similarities among totally diverse images and the graphical presentation. This is one of the "pages" or "swirls" you can see when searching "Delphi", which is all things Delphi, including the Greek city, automotive tool, and all. But there are Delphi boxes and images, including a couple of yours truly.
PS. Very nice that while you "swirl" the URL changes so you can use it to refer to a specific "configuration". Seems a new way of combining AJAX with URL persistence.
2 Comments
Glad you liked the review
Marco - Glad that you liked the review! I was pretty darned happy with my tests of Delphi 2010, as my article made clear. As an IDE, it is quite productive, but I recognize that the Pascal language and working with native code are not for everyone. I do wish the article was more technical as well, but in all honesty, there are a couple of factors limiting that: * Article length - readers tune out past 1,000 - 2,000 words. * Time to write the article - a much more in-depth article takes a LOT more time to produce, which means that the article might not come out for another month or two. As it is, the article was about a month after product launch. :( * Size of product - Delphi (and any other IDE/development framework) takes literally YEARS of use to really explore the nooks and crannies. I've been using Visual Studio since version ".NET" (in 2001), and I *still* learn new things in it, based on my current needs. It would be impossible to really walk through the entire feature set and write competantly about it unless I had been using Delphi for a few years. * Reader interest - my experience has been that my readers prefer to read a summary that contains my opinions on a product, and if I have a favorable impression, they will try it out for themselves. I think that does a product I like a lot more favors than giving a lot of information without much guidance. Thanks again for the kind words! J.JaComment by Justin James [http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/] on November 18, 19:43
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Links War for Web, Image Swirl, Delphi 2010 Review
Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on November 18, 19:34