Bruce McGee
You might remember me writing that the FireMonkey framework isn’t a full-blown gaming engine and that it’s better suited to enterprise applications. (rimshot)This is a follow up to my May the Fourth and Revenge of the… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Star Trek0
Bruce McGee
You didn’t think I’d go through the trouble of making a Star Wars Day post and miss out on the obvious follow-up pun, did you? The demo project (available here) is pretty much the same… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Star Wars0
Bruce McGee
Happy Star Wars Day! What? Delphi programming types are allowed to be silly sometimes. 🙂 This iconic 3D Model is used with permission from CoreyLoses. Corey created a full conversion mod of Sins of a… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, Star Wars0
Bruce McGee
Happy Earth Day! April 22nd, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Initially started in the United States in response to things like the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, it has grown to include… … Read more
5 years ago in Climate Change, Delphi, FireMonkey0
Bruce McGee
On February 14th, 2020, Delphi celebrates its 25th anniversary. Wow. It’s no secret that I’m an unapologetic Delphi fan. I like the language, the IDE and the community. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi25th0
Bruce McGee
“Books. I like ’em.” — bumper sticker Contrary to the title, these are not books on the art of procrastination. I’ve just been dragging my feet making a post about new Delphi books. Delphi Programming… … Read more
5 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
“It’s always better to have too much to read than not enough.” — Ann Patchett Six months ago it was “reading by the fire” weather and now it’s “reading on the patio in the shade”… … Read more
6 years ago in Books, Delphi0
Bruce McGee
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” — Vera Nazarian Happy (belated) New Year! And what better way to spend those cold, wintry days… … Read more
7 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.” — Patricia A. McKillip Oh for crying out loud! I just got finished writing about two new Delphi books and… … Read more
7 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
“Books are the training weights of the mind.” — Epictetus I found two new Delphi books. One that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time and another one that I just learned about…. … Read more
7 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
How many times have we heard someone talking about how Delphi was used to make one piece of software or another or that it’s being used by some well known company? It happens all the… … Read more
7 years ago in Delphi0
Bruce McGee
Ah, the age-old question; Who is still using Delphi? As it turns out, the original answer still applies; Lots of people. There are some great, current examples in Embarcadero’s case studies and in their Cool… … Read more
8 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
Delphi celebrated its 22nd anniversary in February of 2017 and a lot of the developers who make up the Delphi programming community have been using it for a long time. I think that just speaks… … Read more
8 years ago in Delphi0
Bruce McGee
I have been hoping for a long time that Embarcadero would reintroduce Linux support in Delphi, especially since they’ve added Mac, iOS and Android support in the mean time, hopefully working out (most of?) the… … Read more
8 years ago 0
Bruce McGee
Delphi celebrated its 22nd anniversary on February 14th (2017) and since it was Valentine’s Day, people had some fun with #ILoveDelphi and some blog posts about their personal history with Delphi. Embarcadero even has a… … Read more
8 years ago 0