Wizard Software - All things Delphi (and some PHP) » Project Management http://wizard-soft.com/blog Delphi, Pascal, PHP, programming and (Wizard) Software Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Delphi – Long Life, Good RAD! http://wizard-soft.com/blog/2008/11/02/delphi-long-life-good-rad/ http://wizard-soft.com/blog/2008/11/02/delphi-long-life-good-rad/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:36:02 +0000 Softy http://wizard-soft.com/blog/?p=32 Recently, a client asked me to put together a short document detailing why we are using a ‘dying’ programming language (Delphi) to implement their latest and greatest software solution. I’ve included that document below, just in case you need to convince any prospective clients:

Delphi – Long Life, Great RAD

“The Delphi development environment is dead, long live Delphi!”

The most popular global application written in Delphi is Skype. Its money worth is about $4.6 Billion. Skype invest heavily in Delphi development tools.

Delphi is used substantially by commercial software vendors. December 2008 – Fourteen of the top twenty applications listed at download.com are written in Delphi. Many commercial software products, both those in shrink-wrap at retail stores and those for vertical markets, are written in Delphi and will continue to be, because there are very few other good choices for developing high quality (polished) native Win32 GUI software.

Popular applications written in Delphi:

  • Skype

  • Yahoo TV

  • The Online Trader

  • Ad-Aware

  • Tune-Up

  • Webroot Spy Sweeper

  • Macromedia Captivate

http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi

May 2008 - Delphi gets $53 million cash injection – bought by Embarcadero

Embarcadero acquire CodeGear, Borland’s Developer Tools Division for $23 + $30 million, creates the world’s largest, platform-independent software provider of database and application development tools.

http://www.codegear.com/about/news

February 2008 – Russian Government Order One Million copies of Delphi

The Delphi deal is part of a $100 million government initiative, the National State Project of High-Grade Education, which will add computer programming to public education curricula.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206102054&cid=nl_IWK_daily

December 2008 –Delphi (RAD) Studio 2009 released

Delphi 2009 helps meet the challenges of the rapidly expanding global market, and expand the reach of global applications to more users.

http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/win32

Embarcadero Technologies Inc. – Owners of Delphi, empower application developers and database professionals with tools to design, build, and run software applications in the environment they choose.

http://www.embarcadero.com/company/fact_sheet.html

Delphi (CodeGear) web site:

http://www.codegear.com/

]]> http://wizard-soft.com/blog/2008/11/02/delphi-long-life-good-rad/feed/ 0 Are you fuddled? Try Unfuddle! http://wizard-soft.com/blog/2008/10/02/are-you-fuddled-try-unfuddle/ http://wizard-soft.com/blog/2008/10/02/are-you-fuddled-try-unfuddle/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:27:43 +0000 Softy http://wizard-soft.com/blog/?p=28 I’m a lucky guy. Most of my time is spent doing something I enjoy very much… writing software with Delphi of course! As an outsourcing company, we often deal with clients that are thousands of miles away. In the past, we tried a variety of different methods and techniques for keeping the client up-to-date with application development, milestones, etc. It’s always been difficult to get the balance right between a tool that helps the process of communication, but doesn’t overload our resources and take valuable time away from dev. Well, after much search for such a tool, I’d like to recommend  Unfuddle:

www.unfuddle.com

From their web site:

Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams.

Go take a look.

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