[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Marc Hoffman kindly took the time to respond to my previous post and prompted me to re-formulate and expand my observations on Jim McKeeths post (which never made it to the comments thread on the RO blog for reasons best known to The Cloud).
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Perhaps this post should be sub-titled: Say a Lie Often Enough and You’ll Start Believing it Yourself Apparently some product called ERPLY (yeah, me neither) now has a “great new FireMonkey native UI”. FireMonkey ? Native UI ? Unless there has been a radical rewrite of FireMonkey in XE3 and the people behind ERPLY have early access to an unfeasibly stable build of XE3 to have created their product using it, this claim is just errant nonsense.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Like many I suspect, Charles Petzold’s “Programming Windows” was one of the most important books on my shelves for a long time, and it has been a long time since it was updated. With the advent of .NET many perhaps thought a new edition would never come (or indeed be needed). But a 6th Edition is on it’s way, and can be had for an absolute steal under a very creative pricing structure unveiled by O’Reilly.
