Jamie's Blog

In my original introduction to Cirrus framework I drew up a basic method result caching attribute for Delphi Prism. This weekend I thought I’d give it another go and try to create a more general purpose Caching Aspect that integrates with a well known Cache library. I decided to use the opportunity to experiment with [...]

Every 3-6 months or, more frequently it seems, someone has the urge to post some attention grabbing headline such as “Is Delphi Dying” or “Is Delphi a Dead language?” (yes, even unintentionally negative headlines hurt). It recently even despicably overflowed onto StackOverflow. Enough is enough, I thought, I am utterly bored with this discussion.
So, I decided to do something [...]

The F-Secure blog has details of a Malware variant that they’ve found that solely targets installed Delphi versions 4 -7. F-Secure currently detect this as: Virus.Win32.Induc.a. The malware saves a clean copy of SysConsts.dcu and then adds a call to its own init function at the entrypoint of the SysConsts.dcu library. The malware is rather [...]

Someone on Twitter recently pointed me to LangPop.com – which claims to gather together data to give you an estimated rating of how popular certain Programming languages are. I know that most people have seen the TIOBE Programming Community index at some point which uses similar data mining methods to LangPop. This is the first [...]

The May 2009 Release of Delphi Prism introduced the Cirrus layer that provides Delphi Prism developers access to a library for Aspect Oriented Programming natively for the first time. The AOP Wikipedia article has a much more detailed explaination than I could provide but for those who don’t want to read the full article AOP [...]

I enjoyed the Twitter live-coverage and exciting revelations of DelphiLive! particularly from JimMcKeeth and marcocantu but also many others. Despite the surprise revelations of Project X etc a particular slide caught my eye amongst the many others:

Did you see it? ..ISVs, VARs, Consultants and Hobbyists.. I jumped at the phrase and asked Jim whether any [...]

Since Jim has posted Episode 24 of the Podcast at Delphi.org and explained that we’re making an open source Twitter client I thought I would write a quick post about some of the design decisions which we’re already facing. In Particular about the decisions around the internal class that will handle communication with the Twitter [...]

I am a great fan of the Microsoft Coding 4 Fun blog and feel that there should be something similar for Delphi Progammers. I am trying to get something similar started as a way of boosting the relevance, appeal and attraction of Delphi to novice, hobbyist or student programmers. 
Why? 
The aim of it would be to [...]

To whom it may concern at Codegear,
A Recent posting over at The Doric Temple titled “how do I make the case for delphi (as a target business development environment)” has prompted me to wonder why Codegear has slightly neglected the Turbo family which to my knowledge hasn’t been updated since it’s initial release on the 5th [...]

Delphi programming is currently being rejuvenated on so many different levels. I was pleased to see that in the November 2008 TIOBE Index of Programming Languages Delphi shot up to 8th place (only .020% behind c#). I believe that this is partially on the excellent efforts of my good friend Jim McKeeth whose community herding has helped [...]