New Code Gear announcements: Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP
February 22, 2007Code Gear just announced two new products: Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP.
A quick rundown on each:
- Delphi 2007 for Win32 is the latest release of good old Delphi with improved Vista and AJAX support (in the form of VCL for AJAX).
- Delphi for PHP is a RAD IDE and component set for PHP developers. This may be a BIG hit: it packs a powerful IDE with an architecture/component framework called VCL for PHP and adds on top of that professional debugging support and deployment wizardry. I will definitely have more first-hand news about this baby in the coming weeks.
It should be noted that Delphi for PHP is not strictly a CodeGear/Borland internal project, it is originated from qadram’s qstudio, but now it is developed together by the two companies. VCL for PHP used to be called WCL and as far as I see will remain open source.
You can read more here (a very good blog, BTW).
If you seem a little bewildered by all the Delphi for Xxxx (e.g. Delphi for PHP has nothing to do with Object Pascal) and VCL for Yyyy tags, don’t feel lost! It is just POBC (plain old brand capitalization) .
While I am at it PasWiki seems to be interesting, too: it is a simple Wiki engine written in “Modern Pascal”. The angle I am keen to learn more about is its performance claims, an important subject and an area where Morfik should shine.
By performance claim, do you mean the one I made
L505 | February 23, 2007By performance claim, do you mean the one I made about PasWiki running on a 486 computer (yes not even a Pentium). Well, that is true. Seriously though, the fact that it can run on a 486 computer is a pretty poor real world test :-) It is just my cute bragging.
Btw, I understand that the biggest problem with PSP/PWU right now is that it doesn’t have an IDE - that’s what the other frameworks offer that we don’t yet - we are working on this and it has always been the plan to add an IDE after the core matures (which it is maturing these days).
I’d like to see more about you in your about page! Are you a delphi/fpc developer I may know already?
Hi L505, I know :-) I'd be interested in seeing whether
piprog | February 23, 2007Hi L505,
I know :-) I’d be interested in seeing whether there might be any synergy with Morfik (if the two could benefit each other) but I will have to look at your stuff first. Have you checked out Morfik yet?
You are right, I’ll update the About page, thanks. BTW I’m with Borland tools since Turbo Pascal 3 :-)
Peter
I checked out morfik twice but my web browser didn't
L505 | April 21, 2007I checked out morfik twice but my web browser didn’t load their web page properly..due to maybe some Javascript not working on both of my web browsers (mozilla + IE). After asking someone else they said it loaded on their browser just fine (IE 7 or something). I plan to check it out some time in more detail.
I think Ajax is neat and I’ve done some small Ajax work with PSP/PWU already too. I’m skeptical about the hype behind Ajax since most rich web apps end up becoming thin clients outside of the web browser (for example Google Earth software that you download is a thin client not ajax, Google Gmail Notifier download are is thin client software not Ajax). But Ajax still has its place.. such as Banking websites (although it breaks the back button), Members Zones, Forums, Google Members Area, Google Groups search, MySpace style sites, and more.
I think the first priority of all web developers should be:
-get thousands of web pages online and indexed by search engine
-tweak the site with Ajax to retain visitors for neatness factor and cake icing
-make sure the ajax doesn’t interfere with search engine robot
Did you try my demos? They should work in IE
piprog | April 22, 2007Did you try my demos? They should work in IE 6 & 7, FF 1.5+ and mostly in Opera 9+ too.
What are the symptoms?
Which version of Morfik did you try?