{"id":178,"date":"2008-08-13T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:36:15","slug":"tiburon-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/178\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibur\u00f3n – What’s In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

Providing a little light relief after the rather heavy series of posts on multicast events, a colleague recently asked me what Tibur\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong> actually means.\u00a0 So I looked it up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As well as being a town in California, it is also Spanish for shark.\u00a0 I don’t know which derivation inspired the team at CodeGear, but it does raise the possibility that here in Aotearoa we could perhaps be referring to the forthcoming release<\/a> of Delphi as Mang\u014d<\/em><\/strong>, as this is the Maori for “shark”.<\/p>\n

Some additional trivia – from the little that I have picked up of the Maori language, “nui” in a name implies “big” or “large”, so the place name Mangonui<\/a> (which crops up in a few places here) means “big shark”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> Providing a little light relief after the rather heavy series of posts on multicast events, a colleague recently asked me what Tibur\u00f3n actually means.\u00a0 So I looked it up. As well as being a town in California, it is also Spanish for shark.\u00a0 I don’t know which derivation inspired the team at CodeGear, but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[36,293,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/89\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":0},"title":"Tiburon Preview Videos Coming Online","date":"05 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The first two canned videos from last weeks preview of Tiburon have appeared on the CDN site.\u00a0 Of the two, one covers some new language features in C++ Builder, but the one of most interest to Delphi developers I think is the one that demonstrates some of the VCL improvements\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Delphi"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/28\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":1},"title":"Tiburon Preview","date":"02 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A roundup of that part of the Preview I saw of Tiburon - the next release of Delphi from CodeGear.","rel":"","context":"In "Delphi"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":214,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/214\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":2},"title":"Tibur\u00f3n Releases On Monday!(?)","date":"20 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"eWeek have a detailed article with quotes, attributions and pricing in which they state an August 25th (next Monday, by my reckoning) release date for Delphi and C++ Builder 2009! 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