Delphi Bistro

About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used to collect live data from a series of networked devices and store such data into a RDBMS. As usual my colleagues were very quick to blame the issue on Delphi. Continue reading “Delphi Services and Localization Issue”

I just learned of a Delphi contract available in the Akron (OH) area. Continue reading “Delphi Contract available in the Akron (OH) area”

Here is the second installment of the Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index or Fletch PSM Index for short. Continue reading “The Fletch PSM Index for Oct. 19 2008″

In a couple of posts Jim McKeeth has pointed out that the Delphi language has been climbing in the TIOBE Index. He has also called the community to action in order to make sure that whenever we referenced Delphi on a post to do so using “Delphi programming”. That way these references can be properly accounted for in such index. Continue reading “The Fletch Programming Skills Marketability Index”

The time has come and I feel that I need to move on to my next job. For a while I have been trying to locate my next Delphi job with little success. Continue reading “The time has come and I need to move on…”

I have been working around multi threaded services for quite a while now. And as you may know, multi threading services are very hard to debug. When debugging multi threaded applications one must collect run-time information without disturbing the threads and introducing delays that would ultimately cripple the service or render the debug effort meaningless. Clearly, I needed to have the program send real-time messages. Continue reading “My Event logger – a poor man’s debugger”

Yesterday I learned about this Delphi Job offered in the Los Angeles area.(http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/sof/841116892.html).

Cool. I just got my SA e-mail with the download information and most important, the access key to get my Delphi 2009 adventure started. I’m such a geek! LOL!

BTW – be kind and fill up the poll info to the right.

Thanks and happy Delphi!

An article published on eWeek.com states that “Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 will be available on Aug. 25 with North American pricing beginning at $399 per license for Professional editions, $1,299 for Enterprise editions and $2,299 for Architect editions.“ Continue reading “Delphi 2009 release on Monday August 25?”

On my last post about the Delphi road map I got very interesting comments. Those comments made me think about what is really needed to take Delphi back to the place it deserves as a development tool. Continue reading “Still looking at the map.”