{"id":199,"date":"2008-08-18T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2008-08-18T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:43:16","slug":"about-deltics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/about-deltics\/","title":{"rendered":"About Deltics"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

A lot of people ask me where the name Deltics comes from, or what it means.\u00a0 It looks like it might be connected to Delphi, but it isn’t (although that seeming affinity is<\/em> one of the reasons I chose it).<\/p>\n

The original inspiration comes from an early Chris Rea album<\/a> of the same name which has long been a personal favourite.<\/p>\n

The name of that album in turn stems from Chris Rea’s interest in railway locomotives, as “Deltics” became the name by which certain diesel engined locomotives<\/a> were known.\u00a0 In fact, that name was itself derived from the engine<\/em> in those locomotives.<\/p>\n

The Napier Deltic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having recently arrived in New Zealand the Napier name immediately struck a chord, as this is also the name of a city here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I liked the name, noticed the fairly obvious similarity to “Delphi”, and in the absence of any better ideas decided to go with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> A lot of people ask me where the name Deltics comes from, or what it means.\u00a0 It looks like it might be connected to Delphi, but it isn’t (although that seeming affinity is one of the reasons I chose it). The original inspiration comes from an early Chris Rea album of the same name which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1TKYv-3d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/about-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":0},"title":"About This Blog","date":"01 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What is it?\u00a0 ... it started in 2008 as a blog inspired by, and generally about, Delphi.\u00a0 It then became more about Pascal in general as I started using RemObjects Oxygene more seriously. More recently this blog has evolved further to cover all aspects of software engineering, technology, people leadership\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/poll-archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":1},"title":"Poll Archives","date":"23 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Delphi"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1997,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/adb-winlog\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":2},"title":"ADB WinLog","date":"04 Nov 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"ADB WinLog is a graphical (Microsoft Windows) monitor utility for the Android SDK adb logcat command. FEATURES ADB WinLog supports the following key logcat command features: select buffer to monitor (main, system, radio, events or default) choose item content and display format (raw, brief, tag, process, thread, threadtime) Activity filters\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 10 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-03-at-19.56.37-.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2051,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/adb-winlog-user-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":3},"title":"ADB WinLog User Guide","date":"04 Nov 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"ADB WinLog is a very simple front end on to the Android SDK adb logcat command. As such, the Android SDK documentation for the command itself provides a good guide to the basic usage. First, an overview of the main log output area. The first thing to notice is that\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"ADB WINLOG 1.0.1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-03-at-19.56.37-.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}