Borland Delphi 7

I got into delphi a number of years ago when I started to help developer an online tool called Samurize.  Its a fantastically customisable tool for your desktop definitely something I would recommend.  Anyway that was my first exposure to delphi programming writing plugins and new code for samurize, before that it had been mostly java and C.  I think delphi is probably the best language still on the market and the IDE is fantastic and was miles ahead of its time.

I stopped doing much programming at home because of other commitments but just recently I’ve started to get back into it.  First I loaded turbo delphi explorer (free) which can be used for free, it was great playing with delphi again (shame about the interface or maybe I’m just so use to delphi 7!!!!).  Also the other problem with turbo delphi and one of the really pluses of delphi is the third part components, turbo delphi does not allow these to be installed which is a really shame.

So over the last couple of days I’ve been setup myself to be able to use delphi 7 again (I wish I could afford a new delphi 2009 licence but not at £500 each!!!).  Its possible some more of these posts might turn into taking about delphi coding and delphi snippets if I get time to do it.