{"id":284,"date":"2008-09-01T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2008-09-01T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:36:18","slug":"this-weeks-poll-delphi-at-tech-ed-and-2009-ship-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/284\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Poll, Delphi at Tech Ed and 2009 Ship Date"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

Since I’m preparing a series of posts about (and eventual publication of) Smoketest, my own testing framework, I thought I’d test the water with this weeks poll and see what – if anything – people are already using as far as unit testing goes.<\/p>\n

Also I thought I’d briefly mention that I am at Microsoft Tech Ed ’08 (NZ) this week, and it was good to see that the NZ CodeGear reseller, Developer’s Inc were handling a steady stream of traffic at their stand where Delphi 2009 was on display (in the form of data sheets :)).<\/p>\n

I asked when Delphi 2009 was expected to ship and was told that it had been released to manufacturing and was on target to start shipping on 20th September – I forgot to ask whether that was an NZ date or worldwide.<\/p>\n

Not quite from the horses mouth, but pretty darn close.<\/p>\n

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