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Embarcedero has started a new marketing site (http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/) that features David I.

There is a paper based games that you can download as pdf from http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/fun/index.html

The other games includes the trivia and a underwater game that you can play and save David from fishes and sharks .The game was written using Adobe Flash…

RAD Studio XE is the upcoming 2011 release of RAD Studio by Embarcadero that will include Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE and RadPHP XE .

Did you notice XE ??? It is the new badge for all new major Embarcadero product releases where X signifies heterogeneous and E for Embarcadero .

Here’s a Video on the RAD Studio XE Preview – Productivity Enhancements

Skype is a software that allows users to make voice , video calls or sent text messages over internet.

I never realised that the application that i use ( skype ) was developed using Delphi . I found this information in the following links

Good Quality Applications Built with Delphi
Skype Shop
Here is the further information on the skype .

Recently , i was in discussion with My manager as well the client in moving an application from Delphi to .NET ( Visual Studio 2010 ) and thought myself Which one is Better?? and was struck up with no clear answer.

Here’s i compare two technologies ( Not Technically but just about what i feel ) and this is just my opinion and others might well disagree with me too . Here we go .

Anders Hejlsberg was involved in C# and for Delphi too and this puts me in a quetion on there might be similarities too …

C# / .NET

C# is a simple and very well defined language .
Its from Microsoft and .NET is the future for Development on the Microsoft Platform.
Visual Studio’s Code Editor and the Options of the Extensions / Addons to the IDE brings me more functions to be brought together in single IDE / Place especially Code Compare too and Data Compare tool etc
Excellent Community Support for .NET . Check the following sites

I read an article in one of the the popular site, The Register on Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels
The article states that the Exam Board ( Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance ) will withdraw C# ,C and PHP from the syllabus of A-level computer science programme following the low intake of the above programming languages .
The pdf document in the article also states that

These following components have been used for the database access since the introduction of Delphi.
BDE ( Deprecated )
BDE and SQL Links ( Deprecated )
dbGO – Wrapper components for ADO
Interbase Express – Specialized interbase components
BDP – Wrapper for ADO.NET/Delphi ( Deprecated )

Last week , i was working on a task that basically supports the use of SQL Server 2005 instead of Oracle .
The following Interesting observations were made during this time .
The Project used a lot of BDE components ( TQuery , TDatabase , TTable ) , which connects to the Oracle through the driver Oracle Driver that comes with the Delphi 7.

Degisy Data Suite is a package of Visual Component Library ( VCL ) components for accessing the Paradox and DBASE Database .

The components are inherited from the TDataSet class and thus guarantees a full compatibility with standard DB Controls .