Blog posts archive for the given month, sorted by date. See the link for entire blog archive above.
May 5, 2008
Some initial comments on a few posts about book publishing, a thread started by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror. -- Read blog post.
May 7, 2008
CodeGear, Borland's division specialized in development tools like Delphi and JBuilder, is being acquired by Embarcadero technology. -- Read blog post.
May 8, 2008
Delphi has a new owner, along with all other CodeGear products... here are some facts, links, and thoughts. -- Read blog post.
May 9, 2008
From now to mid June, if you buy Delphi 2007 you'll get the PDF of my book for free. -- Read blog post.
May 12, 2008
Some more thoughts on publishing and self-publishing books in a relative small technical market. -- Read blog post.
May 13, 2008
Both companies (well, Borland and Embarcadero) have suffered trying to get into high-end ALM segment, losing (or risking to lose) a broad loyal following... -- Read blog post.
May 14, 2008
Two Delphi events are coming up in Europe in June, the Delphi Day in Italy (an event I organize) and the Delphi Tage in Germany (an event where I'll be speaking). -- Read blog post.
May 16, 2008
An article covering "Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista" claims that all Vista problems are only perceived by users and blames their judgment of the OS. You can get upset, or have a good laugh. -- Read blog post.
May 16, 2008
After posting a rant about Vista, I thought about a way to separate perceptions from facts. It took me 2 minutes to create a test program that demonstrates Vista can be very slow. -- Read blog post.
May 20, 2008
Last months, during my trip to California, I took some pictures, but failed to upload them so far. Now they are on Picasa. -- Read blog post.
May 21, 2008
Recent versions of the Delphi IDE brought us the Data Explorer, but so a few features of the early days are still unparalleled. -- Read blog post.
May 21, 2008
A couple of recent articles covering the relationship between Windows Vista and developers are worth reading... and commenting. -- Read blog post.
May 23, 2008
Nothing psychological here... only a Delphi programming error I bump into from time to time. -- Read blog post.
May 26, 2008
During last week CEOs Wayne Williams (Embarcadero Technologies CEO) began his presentation stating he is a developer. That's a great start for CodeGear and his remarks about Delphi are notable. -- Read blog post.
May 28, 2008
Delphi 7 is now compatible with Vista, or Vista is now compatible with Delphi 7... anyway you look at it, I find this amusing. -- Read blog post.
May 28, 2008
David Clegg has written a very nice article on building Compact Framework applications with RAD Studio 2007. -- Read blog post.
May 29, 2008
The announcement of a high level of compatibility of Win32 applications with the next version of Windows comes at no surprise, at least to me. -- Read blog post.
May 30, 2008
Microsoft document on misunderstood features of Vista is back online, with a few changes... but the substance remains. -- Read blog post.