Hi Robert, I appreciate entirely your point of view, but I don't think it is fair to blame miclonoft or whoever it is for the whoes of the world.
Simply because even they are under pressure... because time moves on.... software is competitive... Recently I did a presentation at the Australian Delphi Users Group on OpenGL. I make the claim that all WinApps are going to be as obsolete as character interfaces over the next few years. User Interfaces are going 3d... like it or not... So you're accounting system will come up with a 3D cube with the customer face on it, the invoices will get stacked in 3d, you'll move things around in the 3d workspace. MS isn't to blame for that, but probably Apple with their really really sexy 3D apps. So when one door closes, another opens. My suggestion is to learn GLScene for Delphi and start learning 3d interfaces. I think that is where the 'cool' in programming is going these days.... Regards David Robert Meek wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry I haven't been able to participate on the lists so > infrequently as of late. And thanx for the many personal well-wishes I > have received from so many members over the last couple months. I am > amazed my friends here have shown their support and care so much more > than those I've known locally since grade school! But I guess it's more > due to the fact that they are still living their lives nightly sopping > up beer at the firehouse trying to keep up Schuylkill County's > reputation as drinking more per capita than any other county in the > entire State of Pa., while I only show up for meetings anymore! > Although it's been tough getting back into my work I HAVE been > trying to create a different interface for XP and/or Vista unlike those > commonly available because most of the few small business clients I > still have loyal to me are constantly complaining that they want more > integration into the OS of the various solutions I offer them. > Especially for those that have upgraded to Vista, where Microsoft is > doing it's best to make it impossible for the lone programmer to get any > work because of their offering everything I used to provide with desktop > solutions for free! Basically, the only two programs I've sold in the > last year have no real visual UI of their own but simply get called and > work from the OS's menu systems. I wouldn't mind so much but even > business clients who should know better don't like paying for something > they can't see no matter how well it works or what problems it solves > for them! > There was a well written but depressing article/editorial in a > freebie NET mag I read last month, ( the name escapes me at the moment > ), in which the writer compared guys like me to canaries in the old coal > mines, and how unless you can re-educate yourself to work using NET as > part of a team, but specializing yourself in one particular area of the > target solution, it is impossible to make a living anymore. > I never made a living or really tried to as programming has > always been more of a sideline for me having started so late, but I used > to at least make it pay for itself and used it as an additional asset to > the services I provided my clients! > How are some of you that might work alone as I do been dealing > with such problems...or aren't you? > I've dallied about with VS and NET over the last two years, but > I must admit that I find Delphi much easier to work with and understand! > NET programming feels to me like cooking by recipe in place of > experimenting with your own creativity and finding how to make a dish > that tastes good. And its taking programming where the availability of > computing power has taken the game of chess...making it a worthless > endeavor unless your idea of fun is in crunching data! > Any comments? > > from Robert Meek dba "Tangentals Design" > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freelance Windows Programming for XP and Vista > Also proud to be a Moderator of the "Delphi-List" at elists.org > > "Reality cannot be explained...only enjoyed or endured as your current > perspective allows!" > > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
