By jamie | December 21, 2008
As we know, now that the future of Delphi.NET is Delphi Prism (based on the RemObjects Oxygene compiler) we have to migrate our Delphi.NET projects to be compatible with the Prism compiler.
The Easiest way to get started is to look at the free Oxidizer tool provided on the RemObjects Wiki. The tool helps with the [...]
By jamie | December 3, 2008
I spent all day last Saturday at Homecamp at the Electrical Engineering building at Imperial College London. Homecamp is effectively a hack-day about Home monitoring, home automation reducing energy and energy resource requirements in your home.
Previous to hearing of the day, I had become interested in these subjects because I had seen Andy Piper’s Current [...]
By jamie | November 15, 2008
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 [...]
By jamie | October 16, 2008
Many programmers keep a loose eye on the TIOBE Language Index table which gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages based on the results returned using the Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube search engines. This index is not without its controversy and the index and ratings are calculated on debatable terms however it is what [...]
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By jamie | September 15, 2008
When customer service startup GetSatisfaction first launched I was initially skeptical. It seemed like a good way of leaving customer support requests to be solved in a peer-supported way allowing you to provide little or no official support. However, it soon began to pickup larger support products such as Twitter which still seems to be [...]
I realise everyone is sick of hearing about the iPod Touch / iPhone version 2 firmware updates however I felt that I would happily ignore that so I could share a few things with you. About 36 hours after reading about various iPhone users receiving their updates via links sent over twitter I noticed the [...]
By jamie | January 15, 2008
I spend a great deal of my time on the internet browsing my friends photos, its one of the primary uses of social networking sites such as Facebook and Flickr. I do sometimes wonder if even this simple function is too painful when having to wade through paging or search function however this is a [...]
By jamie | January 10, 2008
There has been a minor storm brewing for a while now within the Rails community and one which I have predicted and written about (at length) last year.
It began with a disgruntled rant from Zed Shaw who was responsible for the Mongerel engine for rails. Zed seems to be disheartened with the Rails development community [...]
I am a Delphi Developer, Web Developer and general technology enthusiast. I am an advocate of hobbyist development and of free or easy to obtain tools to support this kind of grass-roots adoption.
