{"id":1430,"date":"2013-06-19T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-06-19T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:30:05","slug":"delphi-for-ios-kick-start-sorry-it-isnt-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1430\/","title":{"rendered":"Delphi for iOS Kick Start &#8211; Sorry, It Isn&#8217;t Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time 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\">minute]<\/span><\/span><p>I am preparing a post inspired by my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deltics\/tags\/eurotrip2013\/\">recent travels to Ukraine and the United Kingdom<\/a>, but in the meantime I couldn&#8217;t help but smile (ok, &#8220;smirk&#8221;) when following a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.embarcadero.com\/stephenball\/2013\/06\/18\/delphi-for-ios-kick-start\/\">an Embarcadero page entitled &#8220;Delphi for iOS Kick Start&#8221;<\/a>, that appeared in the DelphiFeeds, um, feed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI have now bought the RemObjects <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remobjects.com\/oxygene\/cocoa.aspx\">solution for .NET, Android\/Java and iOS\/OS X development<\/a> in the form of Oxygene (posts on that front also coming soon), but I was curious to see how Embarcadero were positioning their approach.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that they are still figuring that part out too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/It-isnt-here.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/It-isnt-here.png?resize=640%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"It isn&#039;t here\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/It-isnt-here.png?w=851&amp;ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/It-isnt-here.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/It-isnt-here.png?resize=430%2C300&amp;ssl=1 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No doubt the real page will appear at some point, or maybe it was a reference to an Embarcadero project to get something going on Kick Starter to deliver something to replace FireMonkey, which would explain why it doesn&#8217;t exist yet ?  Maybe.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a &#8220;cheap shot&#8221;, but it is meant in a light hearted &#8220;this raised a chuckle&#8221; fashion, not to be taken as a serious criticism of EDN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Bruce McGee kindly provided the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.embarcadero.com\/stephenball\/2013\/06\/18\/delphi-programming-kick-start-ios\/\">the article intended to be posted on EDN under this title<\/a>.  Presumably they changed the URL after DelphiFeeds had already picked up the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time 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\">minute]<\/span><\/span>I am preparing a post inspired by my recent travels to Ukraine and the United Kingdom, but in the meantime I couldn&#8217;t help but smile (ok, &#8220;smirk&#8221;) when following a link to an Embarcadero page entitled &#8220;Delphi for iOS Kick Start&#8221;, that appeared in the DelphiFeeds, um, feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,137],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","tag-delphi","tag-ios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-n4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}