Thanks to @Brian_Long who pointed out some more TDM article references :
Primož Gabrijelčič 's blog :
and
Hallvard Vassbotn 's blog :
Interesting looking stuff!
Unfortunately, the files (PDF etc) linked to from those pages no longer seem to be available.
Lex
They were both suggesting they would release their authored works via their blogs … I haven’t looked to see yet if that happened.
In 2007, I wasn’t in touch with any of this turbulence …
Meanwhile, CodeGear’s beleaguered team is working to rekindle a business that partners and insiders said was left for dead on Borland’s watch. One part of their plan got under way this week, when CodeGear kicked off CodeRage, an online extravaganza of training sessions and keynote addresses.
Day One drew such heavy attendance that it overwhelmed CodeGear’s servers, Chief Evangelist David Intersimone reported in his blog. Still, CodeGear managed to update attendees on its road maps and smooth out the technical kinks.
Attendees are giving enthusiastic reports on CodeGear’s efforts. “There’s an energy to this company like I haven’t felt in years from them,” Cass McNutt, CEO of software development firm Vantage Technology Group, wrote in his blog. “You can feel the oxygen filling up the room.”
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Salient historical lessons, perhaps.
(I have no knowledge of the current interaction between Emb and partners. But a roadmap would be nice.)
As Borland struggled to shore up its business, and then spent nearly a year sorting out the fate of the Developer Tools Group, partners were kept in the dark. While Borland’s rivals – most notably, Microsoft – keep key partners informed about product road maps and development plans, Borland’s headquarters in Scotts Valley, Calif. (now also CodeGear’s headquarters), has been an information black hole, several partners said.
“They have been extremely remiss in not imparting some of their deepest plans with their third-party vendor community,” Developer Express CTO Julian Bucknall wrote in a blog post. Based in Las Vegas, Developer Express makes libraries and other add-ons for Delphi. In a series of cranky posts, Bucknall argued that Borland was shooting itself in the foot by excluding partners from its CodeGear planning.
Earlier this month, CodeGear’s new management team finally held a briefing for the company’s partners.
Raize Software’s Konopka described the attendees’ mood as a mix of skepticism and optimism.
The Fast Code Challenges
Welcome to the Fastcode Project.
The Fastcode project provides highly optimized functions for the Delphi community. Functions are faster versions of Delphi runtime library functions, VCL functions or functions meant as extensions for these. The project is running on a volunteer basis.
Daily discussions are running in the BASM newsgroup at CodeGear
borland.public.delphi.language.basm
http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/ng_delphi.html
Functions can be written in assembler and use all the modern instruction sets, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, 3DNOW and 3DNOW+. We provide functions optimized for all modern processors and also versions that will run at all older processors. On the library page there are units available with all functions (currently more than 300) to download for free.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171001192540/http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/
Templates, before there were generics … and for earlier Delphi 5, 7, etc
(2002) Templates in Object Pascal : Rossen Assenov
(2003) Object Pascal (Delphi) Templates : Thomas Mueller
https://www.dummzeuch.de/delphi/object_pascal_templates/english.html
ClassiOs - the Delphi OS
From the maker of Trumpet Winsock drivers
Not specifically Delphi : 2015 … Eric Lippert.
- OOP Design
- multiple dispatch
- exceptions
- designing the semantic analyzer for Roslyn
- dungeons and dragons
2013 Feelings about Delphi and progress :
Interfaces - Off the Beaten Track. 2002. The Delphi Magazine. @Malcolm Groves
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- Anders Hejlsberg interview.
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Bl00dy h3ll, I’m vintage already!
Edited, as the forum won’t let me use the word H E L L 
Edited again, as it doesn’t like B L O O D Y either.
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yeah our profanity filter is a list of words I imported from somewhere - I just removed those words, so I can say bloody hell Malcolm is vintage already 
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BlueBet had a profanity filter for usernames that was so broad it barred perfectly legitimate names based on the client’s actual name. I removed it (I was the software development manager), because in 2024 it’s just a waste of everyone’s time. Why bother filtering profanity when there is much worse you can write without resorting to “profane” words.
I’m no prude, but this is a public forum (don’t need to signed in to see most of the content) so still worth keeping it relatively clean. I removed a few of the more innocuous words so I could post things like 
(yep that was blocked).
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Maybe update to a more 2024-like list of “banned” words that better reflect 2024 and not 1954 
This is where the list came from
I regret looking a few of those phrases up (that I had never heard)
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