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Chris
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 Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Delphi going strong |
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Delphi going strong
We all know that for a small software house nothing comes close to Delphi for productivity.
Someone posted (here) a few days ago about the threads in the joel on software forum regarding Delphi as a attractive switch for the VB users.
Delphi is really starting to gain some positive feedback from the MicroISV community see
http://www.mymicroisv.com and http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.345746.28
As an active Delphi developer I am getting lots of people email me about where to start with Delphi what books to read and so on.
I am currently telling them to download the software , get a copy of Marco Cantu’s book (it was good for me as a beginner) , go read his website and when ready get Delphi Developers Guide.
Any more ideas ?
(Read “Micro ISV” as a Very Small software company). |
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Jim Rowell
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Chris wrote:
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I am currently telling them to download the software , get a copy of
Marco Cantu's book (it was good for me as a beginner) , go read his
website and when ready get Delphi Developers Guide.
Any more ideas ?
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http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/ is a must-have.
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Jim Rowell |
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Felipe Monteiro de Carval
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Chris wrote:
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Also going strong here in Brazil. A brazilian community in orkut
dedicated to technical questions about Delphi has more then 13.000
members, and had 11 last month.
There is something like 200 posts dayly on the community.
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20215
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Felipe |
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Wayne Niddery [TeamB]
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Chris wrote:
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I am currently telling them to download the software , get a copy of
Marco Cantu’s book (it was good for me as a beginner) , go read his
website and when ready get Delphi Developers Guide.
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Yes, tell them to subscribe to these groups, search BDN and google, and see
if there are user groups in their area.
--
Wayne Niddery - Logic Fundamentals, Inc. (www.logicfundamentals.com)
RADBooks: http://www.logicfundamentals.com/RADBooks.html
"At the apex of every great tragedy of mankind there stands the figure
of an incorruptible altruist." - Ayn Rand |
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Rick Carter
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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| Quote: | I am currently telling them to download the software
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Do I assume you're talking about the 30-day trial? I'm not aware of
anything else we can advocate people downloading legally.
Rick Carter
carterrk (AT) despammed (DOT) com
Chair, Delphi/Paradox SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group
--- posted by geoForum on http://delphi.newswhat.com |
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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| Quote: | Do I assume you're talking about the 30-day trial? I'm not aware of
anything else we can advocate people downloading legally.
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Yes the trial ! |
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Richard Foersom
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Chris wrote:
To your new starting Delphi friends, point them to this list of useful
Delphi sites:
<http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Useful_Sites>
Beside this, as you do use Delphi in your company, add your company to
the list at the end of this page:
<http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delph
i>
Doei RIF |
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Uffe Kousgaard
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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"Richard Foersom" <r.nojunk.foersom (AT) pt (DOT) nowhere.lu> wrote in message
news:44737115 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com...
| Quote: | As you all know there is no Polish translated version of Delphi, so
that is where you go if you want the English edition.
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And where do you click? Most of us don't read Polish. |
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Richard Foersom
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Rick Carter wrote:
| Quote: | I am currently telling them to download the software
Do I assume you're talking about the 30-day trial? I'm not aware of
anything else we can advocate people downloading legally.
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Borland in France, Germany and Poland provides download of Delphi 2005
or Delphi 7 personal edition. However at Borland HQ there is no
download. Clever-clever!
As you all know there is no Polish translated version of Delphi, so
that is where you go if you want the English edition.
Doei RIF |
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peter
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Richard Foersom
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Uffe Kousgaard wrote:
| Quote: | "Richard Foersom" <r.nojunk.foersom (AT) pt (DOT) nowhere.lu> wrote in message
news:44737115 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com...
As you all know there is no Polish translated version of Delphi, so
that is where you go if you want the English edition.
And where do you click? Most of us don't read Polish.
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Davs Uffe
....And neither do I, but nevertheless with a bit of effort it is
possible.
Read Polish instantly. You can do too:
<http://www.poltran.com/pl.php4>
Anyway on this page, click Delphi 7 Personal
http://www.borland.pl/download/personal.shtml
Fill out the following fields:
Imie: Name
Nazwisko: Surname
Stanowisko: Position
Firma: Company
Ulica: Street
Kod pocztowy: Postal code
Miasto: City
E-mail:
Telefon: Phone
Komorka: Moby-phone
Fax:
If you are not living in Poland, I suggest you write both city and
country in the Miasto field.
Click on the Wyslij button and you should receive an email with a link
to the download, ca. 54MB.
I would like to send my best wishes to Borland in Poland for providing
these downloads of the Delphi 7 personal edition. You are doing the
right thing, giving people a way to get started with Delphi. People who
grow up with Delphi and feel at home with the Delphi language, these
are the people that are easy to sell Delphi to, once they start to be
professional engineers and programmers.
When people are comfortable using Delphi for their home projects or
university/school projects they will write it on their CV. This way the
Delphi name can be put right in the face of managers, human resourcers
and recruiters everywhere, so they will know that there is a large pool
of people who know this tool/language and it is a force to reckon with.
Borland US used to provide Delphi personal edition downloads but
stopped some years ago. Meanwhile Borland and Delphi seems to have
marginalised themself to such a degree that many people in the computer
industry thinks that nobody uses Delphi or that Borland closed shop
long ago. This is not a good start position in a company to try selling
Delphi as best development tool.
DevCo, bring back the free download of Delphi personal edition!
Doei RIF |
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Robin
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Richard Foersom wrote:
| Quote: | Borland in France, Germany and Poland provides download of Delphi 2005
or Delphi 7 personal edition. However at Borland HQ there is no
download. Clever-clever!
As you all know there is no Polish translated version of Delphi, so
that is where you go if you want the English edition.
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I soooooooooooo wish that there was a personal version of 2005/2006
available publicly. I have a friend all worded up on Delphi, who loves
it, comes from a VB background and is still convinced that Delphi is the
way to go, I have even given him my books to read (Mastering D2005 is
one).
But can he get a version of the software to use? No. He can get a
trial, but that is it. If he has to pay, I fear he will go to Visual
Studio express instead.
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Robin.
"He who treats the database as a flat-file repository of data is doomed
to burn in Hell. It's true, I asked." - Dratz |
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Matt Jacobs
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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"Chris " <cjt120476 (AT) nospamGmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Maybe. IIRC, Borland has stated several times that they are not very
interested in that segment. |
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Chris
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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Chris
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Delphi going strong |
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| Tried to add to list but I am just getting an error! |
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