I planned to attend the Delphi Road Show today hosted in NYC, but it seems other forces had other plans for me. I’m bummed not to be in attendance. For one, I want to show my support for Delphi and the new DevCo. I also wanted to hear David I talk about the future. And lastly, I was hoping to network with other Delphi developers. But it didn’t happen for me. I can only now hope that they add another NYC date, or better yet a Boston date. Or even provide a webcast of the road show once the tour as ended.
Update: A web cast date has been added.
Did David I read my posting hoping for a webcast of the Delphi Road Show? I doubt it but at least great minds think alike. A webcast date for the Delphi tour has been added. Thanks DevCo!
Work on Swirl has started up again. For those readers who have forgotten, Swirl is the code name for White Peak Software’s soon to be released Web service debugger and testing program. I missed the planned milestone of having the first beta release out by the end of May due to other customer demands. Can’t blame a guy for needing to make money from time to time, right?
As I’m working through preparing Swirl for the first beta release, something occurred to me. I really don’t like the WSDL parser I wrote. It works mostly. I say mostly because there is still a bug or two left in the parser. But the reason I don’t like it is not because there are a few bugs but because the code is nasty and hard to maintain. I think it is time to take a step back and refactor the WSDL parser into something better. This of course will delay the beta release even more but it’s worth the delay in the long run.
A customer recently asked White Peak Software to design and implement custom software for generating large batches of temporary user accounts. The purpose of these temporary user accounts is to market a subscription based web site in much the same way AOL used to market its services. Here’s how it works.
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A common question I get is “How is White Peak Software doing?” The answer is quiet simply “We’re doing great.” Revenues continue to grow and we are inching closer to the release of our next product. We’ve also done some exciting custom software work over the last year.
I have decided to start posting news briefs on some of our more exciting, and successful, custom software work. You can read the postings in the White Peak Software Announcements forum or by subscribing to the announcement feed using your favorite RSS feed reader.
Mike Eberhart of the Cleveland based database developer shop Intersoft Development, and long time friend, is finally blogging on investment news and opinions, software and technology thoughts, and more. Should make for some interesting reading.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Mike.
This blog posting by Daniel Wischnewski really caught my attention. He has successfully ported an ASP.NET application written in Delphi.NET to a Linux environment running Mono and Apache. This really doesn’t surprise me because I have in the past run .NET assemblies under Mono without a problem. But at the same time I find it very cool that it is an ASP.NET application written in Delphi, which is something I haven’t yet tried. Awesome stuff.
Someone on the Joel on Software forum asked “how many ISVs are using Delphi?” If you’re using Delphi, share the love and post a reply. White Peak Software is using Delphi and Borland Developer Studio 2006 for its products and custom software.
Registration for the Borland 2006 Road Show is now open for the U.S. dates. I have reserved my spot for the June 8 NYC event.