[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] There seems to be a perception among some people that Delphi is in the unique position of allowing developers to share and re-use code across the various platforms that it’s compiler can now (and will soon) target. But this is not the case. Oxygene has had this capability right from the start.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] I closed my previous post with an observation that the code for initialising an iOS user interface programmatically, as translated from equivalent Objective-C, contained a potential gotcha. I now have a little more time to expand on that.
[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] When XE4 came out and the full extent of the bait and switch perpetrated by Embarcadero became clear, I decided that my money was better spent with RemObjects and their Oxygene product. But it has only been this past weekend that I finally found some “quality time” to spend with it.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Having lost our Delphi reseller in NZ last year, and with the Kiwi dollar riding high against the US dollar, now is a good time to make purchases from online stores operating in US currency. RemObjects has such a store and they also have a cross-grade offer for Delphi customers wishing to move over to the Oxygene product.
[Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes] As the post title says, this will be a brief detour through some features of the Pascal language and a presentation of some (theoretical) alternatives that could have been introduced instead. That is, some are real but little known syntax, others are what I think might be preferable to the syntax we actually have.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Continuing the theme of recent – and upcoming – posts about new (and not so new) syntax in modern (and not so modern) variations on the Pascal language, I just have to comment on what I regard as yet another stunningly good job that the guys at RemObjects have done in their “Nougat” flavoured Oxygene. Specifically in relation to how they have implemented the named method parts syntax in Objective-C.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Marc Hoffman has confirmed that “Nougat” is to Mac/iOS as “Cooper” was to Java. Some have speculated that this will be based on Mono, but Oxygene has had Mono covered for some time already, so I strongly doubt that this is the case.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] I came across a reference to “Nougat” in relation to Oxygene recently, and sure enough you can pre-order Oxygene in a .NET, Java and “Nougat” bundle.
