Thursday 6 August 2015

Delphi Stuff

I’ve been rather quiet on here lately. But I’ve kept my eyes open on what things have been appearing on the ARPANET relating to Delphi. I kept a list of things that piqued my interest.

On the off-chance you’ve missed any of these and might find them of interest, here’s a list of Delphi stuff.

Open source code bases:

WinSoft XE has released their commercial NFC Library for Android 2.0 for Delphi/C++Builder XE7 and XE8 – see FMX Express mention here. This is a ready made approach to NFC, which might be preferable to the do-it-yourself approach previously (and still) freely available:

One of the stalwarts of the old Delphi team, Charles Jazdzewski, aka Chuck J (also aka DJ Jazzy Chuck aka The Chuckinator aka Chuck-a-luck-a-high-chuck-a-hiney-ho), has been posting some nostalgic memories about the origins of the Delphi project:

Old Borland videos:

Borland Old Testament Histories by Verity Stob

  1. Book of Anders (1996)
  2. Yocam hokum (1998)
  3. Book of Yoc-am (contd.) (1999)
  4. Borland Revelations (2004)
  5. Borland's Delphi Goodbye (2006)
  6. A reading from the second book of Codh (2008)
  7. Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha (2010)
  8. The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring (2012)
  9. The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet (2012)

Not quite Delphi stuff:

Unlikely to actually be interesting to anyone other than myself, but I was following a chain of posts on the old Windows Error Reporting tool, Dr Watson:

This led me back to a post by Matt Pietrek (who worked for Borland and wrote TDump and WinSpector) from his awesome Under The Hood column:

and right at the end he included a link to one of my various Undocumented Easter Eggs pages :o) That made me smile!