It is great to see you guys are still monitoring this forum, XE4 is starting to become something to work with.
Firemonkey has a long way to go before it achieves the stability we know in the VLC. I pull my hair out sometimes working with the things but slowly it seems to be coming together. I'm not opposed to learning new languages but find myself not using Delphi as much as I used to now that web applications have become my primary focus and I am using PHP. XE4 is probably a good place to start , avoiding the frustrations from XE2. Simple things like copy and paste were not working in the Firemonkey GUI. XE4 is definitely something to look at if you want to make good mobile apps, it seems they have focused a lot on iPhone and iPad deployment and I must say it is easy to get a "hello world" system going, I'm not sure about the real world apps, but it is worth playing with on a trial version to test it. You will need a Mac computer to run the debugging environment. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Cameron Cole <came...@cameroncole.com>wrote: > Google+ and StackOverflow seem to be the places I check frequently. Not > sure there will really ever be one place but the Delphi community has > always been a bit chaotic and isolated so it is fitting in a way. > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Doug Chamberlin > <chamberlin.d...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I don't consider these places as active. The linkedin groups average > about > > one post every week. Don't know about the google community. > > > > You make my point for me: There are multiple groups on linkedin when > there > > do not need to be! > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:31 AM, François Piette > > <francois.pie...@skynet.be>wrote: > > > > > > I think it is unfortunate that the Delphi community (and Free Pascal > > > > community) is so fractured today. There used to be much online > > activity - > > > > so much that people started many different forums to accommodate it > > all. > > > > Now there are many inactive forums almost all of which are sparsely > > used. > > > > Even the Embarcadero forums have very little traffic. > > > > I wish we could consolidate into a few places that are very active > > again. > > > > > > There are such a few places! > > > Mailing lists and traditional news groups are fading. Social media are > > > gaining audience. > > > > > > 1) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=101829 > > > 5500 members today > > > 2) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1290947 > > > 4045 members right now > > > 3) https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754 > > > 1620 members as per today > > > > > > The Google Plus group is growing fast. It will probably outperform > > LinkedIn > > > groups in a few months. Since the beginning of 2013, Google+ has much > > more > > > interesting traffic than LinkedIn. And most peoples are part of all 3 > > > groups. > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > -- > > > francois.pie...@overbyte.be > > > Embarcadero MVP > > > http://www.overbyte.be > > > http://francois-piette.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > > > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > -- <http://spiceware.co.za> __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
