Marco Tech Blog

December 16, 2008

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper #3: The IDE

CodeGear has published on their Developer Network web site the third of a series of white papers I wrote.

posted by marcocantu @ 11:55PM | 9 Comments [0 Pending]

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Marco
By at least the time you wrote your Delphi 6 book
you had left out a lot of the basic stuff you had in 
your delphi 2 book.
Now also you need to have your delphi 2007 book and 
your delphi 2009 book. So you I think you need at 
least 4 books to learn Delphi 2009.
It seems to me that everyone is losing sight of the 
newbies who don't have a computer science degree.
Where are the delphi programmers of the future going 
to come from.
I am a self taught vb6 programmer. I say self taught 
but that is not accurate. I have been taught by a 
plethora of vb6 books for all levels. Also I have 
been taught by the good deeds of countless people who 
answered questions and posted code innumerable times 
on the internet. Although the rest of the programming 
world may look down on vb6 there are enough really 
clever and generous hearted people programming in vb6 
to help people like me to do almost anything we 
wanted.
In the vb6 world people didn't put you down or ignore 
you when you displayed your ignorance. They helped 
you.
Where are similar resources to be found in the Delphi 
world?
I read the delphi blogs and it's all jargon, all 
stuff that assumes quite a bit of prior knowledge. 
Apart from Zarko no one is making an attempt to 
popularize delphi among the newbies.
What's the point of preaching to the converted and 
the knowledgeable.
Delphi needs to be welcoming to people making their 
first uncertain steps in programming. 

Comment by NotAnExpert on December 17, 01:26

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

thank you for your paper--it reminded me of the
"-idecaption" command line option that lets me
overcome an irritation in d2009--it looks identical to
d2007 although the projects are not compatible.  it's
nice not to need to go to Help, About to find that out.

Comment by mike p on December 17, 03:20

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Dear "NotAnExpert",

I'm actually going to release a lot of information 
from older books (old Mastering Delphi, Delphi 
Developers Handbook) for beginners and intermediate 
Delphi developers. This will be in form of PDF ebooks 
and some printed volumes as well.

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on December 17, 11:17

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Marco,

Off topic here, but just having read Pawel Glowacki's 
blog, commenting on Nick Hodges Webinar yesterday, I 
have the first information that Commodore may be 
going to loose the PROMISED 64 bit. 

I'm going elsewhere now to see if I can find further 
comment, but can you blog about it if you know 
anything ?

Paul T

Comment by Paul T on December 17, 11:35

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Ciao Marco!

Thanks for the paper. It's very welcome to get
introduced in the new version of Delphi.
Do you have links to the other whitepapares too?

Thx in advance,

Fritz

Comment by Fritz on December 17, 12:20

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Fritz,

  if you search in the blog for "Delphi whitepaper" 
(see search lin on the side) or browse the December 
posts, you'll see the two previous links. The last two 
white papers will become available... in coming weeks.

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on December 17, 13:05

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

@Marco: Mille grazie!

Fritz

Comment by Fritz on December 17, 16:22

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

Dear Marco,

For the last few months I have been very critical on 
the web, in certain blogs, of CodeGear, CodeRage and 
D2009.  I have recently downloaded your white paper on 
Generics and Anonymous methods, as well as today's 
white paper on the D2009 IDE.  I feel the work done on 
these 2 papers have done a lot to advance the cause of 
D2009.  They are well written, highly presentable, and 
very easy to understand.  Also, they have a lot of 
great examples.  They do a better job in selling me on 
why I would want D2009, then just showing a feature 
matrix.  I want to be told with a good explanation why 
I would want to update. I feel these papers do a lot 
in making that point.  I am getting a lot of benefit 
from them, and I want to thank you for writing them.  
And, I hope others are getting the same benefits.

Brett Graffin

Comment by Brett Graffin [] on December 17, 17:04

Delphi 2009 Whitepaper 3 The IDE 

> I'm actually going to release a lot of information 
>from older books (old Mastering Delphi, Delphi 
>Developers Handbook) for beginners and intermediate 
>Delphi developers. This will be in form of PDF 
>ebooks and some printed volumes as well.

That would be great! Your writing is excellent. 
I hope they receive a wide distribution
Funny how that for the 2 languages that interest me 
most (vb and delphi)the best authors are Italian 
(Francesco Balena and yourself).

Comment by on December 18, 02:34