{"id":1919,"date":"2013-10-15T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:56:17","slug":"unintentional-significance-of-pop-culture-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1919\/","title":{"rendered":"(Unintentional?) Significance of Pop Culture References"},"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>Michael Swindell apparently didn&#8217;t realise the risk he was taking by pointing out that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.embarcadero.com\/michaelswindell\/2013\/10\/14\/34979\">some Delphi books had been featured in a popular TV program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch the show in question myself though I did enjoy the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFyzp-dEIig\">The Walken Dead<\/a>&#8221; spoof, but I understand it is very popular.  I suspect it is this popularity that Michael was dazzled by and\/or hoping to dazzle people with by association with Delphi.<\/p>\n<p>Quite apart from the shockingly clumsy segu\u00e9 into the boiler-plate multi-platform marketing spiel, I wonder how anyone with any knowledge of the two could bring themselves to say (with a straight face at least) that <strong>OWL<\/strong> was in any way a &#8220;<em>precursor<\/em> of <strong>FireMonkey<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in the same sense that <strong>Btrieve<\/strong> was the precursor to <strong>DB2<\/strong>.  I mean they&#8217;re both databases and Btrieve came before DB2, right ?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But that aside, he appears to have missed the potential meaning that could be interpreted from Delphi books appearing on a shelf alongside other books about &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; other long-dead IT luminaries such as OS\/2 Warp &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; in a show that specifically references &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <strong>the WALKING DEAD<\/strong> !<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Delphi isn&#8217;t dead.  But being <strong>undead<\/strong> isn&#8217;t much consolation.  \ud83d\ude00<\/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>Michael Swindell apparently didn&#8217;t realise the risk he was taking by pointing out that some Delphi books had been featured in a popular TV program.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}