Delphi

Let me give you an example why the decision by Embarcadero to deliver all languages with the very same DVD or download is one of the most overlooked features.

I am a big big fan of strategy games on the PC platform. Thus, I bought Anno 1404, definitely a purchase I never regret as the game is truly the best real-time strategy game I ever played so far. I bought it… Continue reading

If you have ever written code in Java or .NET, you will truly learn to appreciate the garbage collection, i.e. objects that are no longer referenced are being freed from memory. Automatically no less.

A lot of people do not like it for reasons of their own and I do not want to get into those.

What I do want to discuss is that in an environment in which you are responsible… Continue reading

I would like to point the following out as some people asked why I was still categorizing my last two posts for Delphi as well.

The next couple of posts will be using RemObjects SDK and RemObjects DataAbstract with .NET to deliver data for an iPhone application. The two previous posts are needed in order to understand my train of thoughts. I will mark these posts with the Delphi category, i.e… Continue reading

In my last post I spilled where my major focus lies right now. I am looking at something completely different: not a new language, but a new language, with new tools on a different platform. And believe me, it is different.

Why different? Well, not only is the syntax of the programming language on Mac very odd getting used to for a Delphi or C# developer, but even more using the… Continue reading

I neglected this blog in the last couple of months, but … I am still up and about. Actually, I have been rather busy and the blog has not been on the top of my todo list to be rather honest.

However, this is going to change in the next couple of weeks as I am finally ready to blog about some interesting, new, innovative things that have come my way… Continue reading