To further on all the non(sense) news about Tiburon...

I may be too sceptical, under too much work stress, or maybe I'm catching some flew or the other. But really, is the news about the handling of a password character worth the bits over the internet? (oops, now I've done it myself).

See: http://glooscapsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/08/delphi-2009-passwordchar.html

Come on everybody out there. I love to read about generics and implementation (problems) with the Unicode stuff. I even find the reports about the installation time more worthwhile than this.

It's probably me... Lunch time is over: back to business!

Bye,
Bart

So, installation time is shorter. Who cares????

I've now seen a couple of blogs about the improved install speed of the new Delphi version. It may be me, but I really don't get it why people get so enthousiastic about that. Who cares if your installation takes 10, 20 or 60 minutes? It's something that you (should) do only once in a long while and then you're done with that. I much rather see 10% improvement in compile speed than 1000% improvement in installation time.

Am I crazy or what? Let's state it once again and never mention it after this:

installation time of Delphi 2009 has improved!

(now, back to work...)

Bye,
Bart

Would you buy Delphi 2009?

Now the new version is in the open I found me talking to myself yesterday (...) about when and why I should buy the new version. I am curious enough to want to get my hands on it, but really haven't found an argument for upgrading yet. The new features in the language are not the ones that will solve all my remaining whishes for my software. I am using DevExpress components and not using ribbon toolbars (yet), so there's not a lot of new things in the VCL for me.

I do want unicode though, badly, so that is a good reason. But I'm using the DevExpress components so I need to wait for those to be 2009-ready. So, I have decided to wait for them to come with a unicode compatible release of their components before buying 2009. Since everybody says that implementing unicode with 2009 is so easy, it shouldn't take long, but I'm not really sure about that to be honest. We'll see...

What about you? Can you control yourself and find a decent reason to upgrade? Or are you susceptible for the hype-like messages about 2009 and find you running to the shop already?

Bye,
Bart