Tag Archives: Delphi
Where to now with rich client application development?
In the 1990’s, C/C++ and Java ruled the enterprise application world while Microsoft’s Visual Basic was a very limited Windows application tool, and we had Borland’s Delphi with its far more powerful architecture providing one of the best native Windows … Continue reading
Running Delphi 6, Delphi 2007 and Borland Database Engine on 64 bit Windows 7
The Borland Database Engine (BDE) and Delphi versions prior to Delphi 2009 were created before 64 bit Windows 7 and thus the default installations need some tweaking to get them to run. I have created a page explaining the issues … Continue reading
Embarcadero announces new Delphi roadmap
see here – view with IE as not all slides show in Firefox! Very brief summary of the revised roadmap as at August 2010: RAD Studio XE: coming late 2010 adds Delphi for PHP into the RAD Studio bundle latest … Continue reading
Delphi – migrating BDE app to DBX4
Migrating a sophisticated BDE-based database application to DBExpress is not as trivial as it is to migrate to an ADO-based application, but the benefits are substantial – single dll deployment, fast, and cross-platform capability (eg. Linux, Mac compatibility in Delphi … Continue reading
TIOBE Programming Community Index Feb 2010
The TIOBE Programming Community Index for Feb 2010 shows that the most popular programming languages are: Java (17% – strongly trending downwards from 26.5% in 2001 – seems governments are NOT interested in java solutions anymore) C (17% trending downwards … Continue reading