It's not just a matter of the American buyers always wanting the
greatest and latest! I seriously believe that the constant rush into new
technologies are just another way of causing a rush of new cash flow! All
changes bring this about and it's no different in the development market
place. But, we who live at the bottom of the pool have little choice but to
follow along if we want to stay current, and for most of you...to continue
getting work!
Unlike they did with COM, Microsoft has done a very good job in
rationalizing the need for the 'connected' world to go onto the .NET
standard, and whether you believe all the rhetoric or not it seems that if
you want to stay current and prosperous you'll soon have to go this route
yourself! If this were not true, Borland wouldn't have rushed D8 and then
D9 out the door while they were both still beta products! They know they
have to compete to stay in business, but with them it's always too late and
not good enough! Why can't they do it right now when back in Windows early
days they were able to beat Microsoft with a better development tool? Could
it be the brain drain? Could it be management's outlook on the future and
that it isn't as important to take care of the developer as it was back
then? It's probably a lot of these and other things that have led to
products like D9, but honestly who cares? I certainly don't because
whatever happens I merely have to follow along. If they tell me that
tomorrow everyone is going to run Linux and that I have to learn Mono, then
that's what I'll do! Today it's XP and the move into 64 bit computing,
web-enabled everything, and .NET. That's what I need today so that's what
I'll do today. And I'll do it the very easiest and best way I can find no
matter what company I must play to or who's tools I must buy. There just
isn't room in the present day world or economy for unjustified allegiance to
any company...only the users of Delphi deserve that, not it's maker!
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On Behalf Of Cameron Cole
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:49 AM
To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ignorance
>I know you all are having problems with Delphi 2005, but this charge into
> .NET only seems to be taking hold in the US.
I find it is a strange dance in the states. Developers want to use the
latest greatest to keep their resumes up, tech managers want to perpetually
rewrite to justify their budgets and business managers are sold on the idea
that the software development platform they use gives them a huge strategic
advantage. In some cases, it is true that using the latest tech is a good
thing. However, I often find in US companies that the technological
solution has already been decided before figuring out what the best tech
solution to the problem is. Sometimes low tech is the right tech, but few
companies I have consulted with or worked for actually map out the problem
before selecting the tech (generally this is .net and SQL Server). Course
most new software projects fail and I think a big contributor is people
jumping the bandwagon of new tech too fast. Blazing the trail on a new app
and a new tech often starts a dev team at a rather large disadvantage. If
business managers here had a better grasp of the business of tech, I doubt
so many would jump on the "lets use the latest" methodology.
> Architect/Enterprise version?
Enterprise, but I could use the developer version. Course I would have to
buy an entirely new license which is about the same price as the enterprise
upgrade. Either way
> Is that the util from code central or your own?
I bought the product years ago from a (I believe) German company that went
out of business. I don't know if it works with D2005 or D8, but it does
work with D5-D7. I find it useful since I usually just need to see the
source to figure out what I need to do rather than reading the help. I
guess I am just of those guys that hopes the instructions has pictures.
> Well I'm floored by that. Have you checked out MSDN lately?
Yes and it is a HUGE improvement, but there are still things that need to be
fixed. If you don't know the command you are looking for, it can often be
very hard to dig through MSDN help trying to find the answer. I don't even
try anymore, I just pop into google news. Also the endless clicking and
closing of windows is annoying. I like the grid at the bottom, but the
navigation from it needs work. Apparently Whidbey addresses these issues as
well as adding some cool new features like searching alternate websites for
help.
> never used vb
Feel blessed. The old MSDN help system (and even the current one) used to
be an all-in-one help so if you searched for help on a VB command often you
would get a C++ command, a network command and a variety of other entries
from other platforms and the filters were useless.
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