{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-01T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:42:24","slug":"about-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/about-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>What is it?\u00a0 &#8230; 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.<\/p>\n<p>More recently this blog has evolved further to cover all aspects of software engineering, technology, people leadership and agile practices.\u00a0 There will still be deeply technical coding content, but that too has evolved as I have transitioned to my (current) favoured language: GoLang.<\/p>\n<p>What Happened to &#8220;Te Waka&#8221;? &#8230; the original name of this blog, <em><strong>Te Waka o Delphi<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(later <em><strong>Te Waka o Pascal<\/strong><\/em>), means <em>The Canoe of Delphi\/Pascal<\/em>, referencing the Maori historical tradition of tracing lineage back to the original canoe which brought their hap\u016b or iwi and wh\u0101nau to the shores of the beautiful islands of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>Te Waka<\/strong><\/em> conceit no longer really fits, however, and has been dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span> What is it?\u00a0 &#8230; 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. 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