Comments on: The time has come and I need to move on…

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:17:33 +0000

I am new in Delphi, but is it more profitable than Java?

By: Ebikekeme Ere

Ebikekeme Ere — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:58:08 +0000

VB is King and Java is the sweet bride in Nigeria, but some how I have been able to show our customers how quickly and efficiently an app can be built using Delphi. I had a situation in a company where my client had for over 8 months been trying to develop an Order Approval System in VB.Net. We took over rebuilt the app from scratch using Delphi 6 and Intraweb in less than 3 weeks. The customer was amazed how fast it took us to build the app.

As a bespoke contractor, Delphi is what I use everyday and for every job.

By: John E

John E — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:28:58 +0000

@Marco

I agree with you… the issue is not language as much as the definition of a ‘good’ programmer. Yet companies are locked in on languages and experience with them. Programmers do not have the courage or are lazy to expand to a ‘non mainstream’ language. At least Delphi programmers are not guilty of this.

By: Paul Heffernan

Paul Heffernan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:08:36 +0000

Hi, we have the opposite problem. We are a Delphi house based in Dublin, Ireland and we just can’t find good local Delphi developers. If you know of any good location to find Delphi developers in Ireland do let me know: paulh at ocuco.com

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:37:54 +0000

I’m from Italy, in order to write delphi code I had to set up a new company from scratch…then the problem became: “how to find customer?”

Anyway IMHO a good Delphi programmer can write good code in any language (VB excluded… )

By: Fletch

Fletch — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:26:53 +0000

@John E. I agree with you. There seems to be a big disconnect between Delphi developers and companies.

Moreover, I feel compelled to ask you where are these companies? How come we can connect? Any theories?

By: John E

John E — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:53:45 +0000

This is funny, but not funny and shows the need: I just got off of LinkedIn where the complaint is that companies can not find any good software engineers with good Delphi experience. The problem maybe that companies and developers can not find each other in the vast domain of software (at least in the USA).

By: JB

JB — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:06:10 +0000

Outside of US, Western Europe, Delphi should not be a problem. It is Popular in South America, Eastern Europe, Russia and there is quite a bit left in South Africa.

By: Bruce McGee

Bruce McGee — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:07:05 +0000

A lot of job openings aren’t listed, and are filled by word of mouth. User groups, colleagues, cold calls to companies that are using Delphi. I’d even consider dropping Developer Relations or your local Embarcadero office a line (if you have one). They might know someone who is looking. You get the idea.

If you don’t find something you like in Delphi, maybe take a look at some of those C# positions. Like Ken said, the language isn’t much of a stretch, and it isn’t bad experience to have in your toolkit.

Good luck.

By: Guillem Vicens

Guillem Vicens — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:52:58 +0000

For what it’s worth, where I live (Spain) it is relatively easy to get a Delphi job. Particularly in the Balearic Islands you can find a good bunch of companies that program in Delphi, and since most of them create apps for tourism corporations, language may not be a big problem (at least at the beginning).

Good luck finding your job.