I recently posted about the imminent non-death of Delphi ... and
lots of people contacted me to let me know that they too noticed that
Delphi wasn't going anywhere any time soon.
Several people pointed out how hard it is to find Delphi developers, or Delphi jobs ... of course these are most likely related ... certainly both are true although I reckon it wouldn't take long to teach a good C# developer how to become a handy Delphi developer if your project really needs one more Delphi developer, and just about all the C# developers here at Devexpress were once Delphi developers so going the other direction is quite easy too. I guess what I am saying is that I wouldn't let a lack of exclusively Delphi developers, stop you from using Delphi if it's the best solution.
Quite a few people were quite happy to give opinions why Delphi "lost" to C#, missing the point of my post which was that Delphi and C# are both excellent solutions for answering different questions.
While I am on the topic of that blog post, a few people pointed out some errors in my post. eg: while I spoke of AutomatedQA's Test Complete I Showed AQTime ... oops sorry about that. AFAIK both are built using Delphi and have high resolution timing made easier by virtue of being built using Delphi. I also referred to Quests Toad product being built using Delphi, and as an example showed a screenie of Toad for SQL Server ... unfortunately it turns out that while some versions of TOAD were built in Delphi, TOAD for SQL Server was built in .NET. Mea Culpa!
Speaking of blogs about Delphi, I have few more Delphi tech blog posts
planned before I have to get back to blogging about XAF and ASPx and
other DX technologies I am working with.
I've also been working with Emil and Amanda to produce scripts for Devexpress.TV screencasts of using our VCL products ... over the past week we've been building a few on using the SpellChecker component and you can find those here. If these prove popular we hope to produce more VCL screencasts ... so feel free to let other Delphi developers know about these, and let's see if we can get the view counts above some of the .NET screencasts.
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I'm also planning to present a couple of sessions at Embarcaderos's CodeRage conference in early September
PARTNER SOLUTION: The Technology of the QuantumGrid, 1:45pm Sept 8th
A
look at how the DevExpress QuantumGrid is able to present radically
different views, and how you can do the same thing in your own
components to expose different UI behaviors at design-time through the
property inspector, and in your applications at runtime.
and
PARTNER SOLUTION: DevExpress, 1pm Sept 9th
A tour through the broad offering of components from Developer Express.
You can register for this conference here ... 
Once this goes live I'll blog more about the code involved in enabling your own components to cascade different views like the Quantum Grid.
While I'm on the topic of blogging and Delphi ... who else is
blogging about their Delphi development? It's always interesting and
often surprising to learn more about what developers are doing with
Devexpress components, and I reckon our VCL team will also get a kick
out of how the VCL components that they work on every day are being
used in the real world ... so what are you guys using our VCL components for?