[DUG] Traffic Builiding Question.

[Jeremy Coulter]

Q1.  I was self employeed, then a contractor which became full time.

Q2.  I  write and sell Delphi Components, or at least did, its been a while
since I have bothered doing new VCL to sell. I WAS one of 5 developers, but
now there are 2 of us, one doing VB but only maintaining a product and is
now doing more DBA, and me, doing all the development.
So I get to write services, COM controls, VCL, do the R&D, normal old DB
aware apps., Webmaster, web development, coldfusion, ASP, etc. etc., and now
with the purchase of D2005, we will be doing a lot of webservices.
I do a lot of mixed stuff which is about all that's keeping me at the job
right now.
THEN, when I get home do more development interfacing to different bits of
hardware for my other business.
I will be doing more .NET at work than for my business for a while, as my
main application for my business has now matured, and I WONT be doing a
re-write, other than to drop Access as the DB and using MSDE.
I have not used the BDE since D3 when it turned to custard ! Purrchased 3rd
party controls to talk to Access, and / or used ADO.

3/ How long have you been using Delphi?
Since D1. Before that Turbo Pascal....and VB3....agh

4/ How long have you been on this list?
Since D1 :-) when someone told me about it

5/ Do you see yourself still using Delphi in 2 years?
Yes, I think I will. Still a few apps. Being developed in Delphi that will
need supporting.


On a personal note, I love developing in Delphi. I have done C++ and VB, and
I am always drawn back to Delphi for its power, its ease of use, its ability
to be complex when required, and its extensibility.
Yeah, the IDE is not as good as VB's, and its lack of out-of -the-box
Version control was annoying, but all in all, I still love working with it.
I have dragged my feet with .NET because I guess I have to start at the
bottem again in a learning scale, and I feel like I cant be bothered,
because I  can fire up Delphi and produce something pretty quickly right
now.
BUT, .NET for NOW, is the way forward, so if I want to stay employable, I
guess I have to follow the pack.

Jeremy


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Kyley Harris
Sent: 14 July 2005 15:15
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Traffic Builiding Question.

Q1: How many people out on the user group are contractors, and how many are
employees.

I realise that many delphi people probably don't use the DUG, but I'm
curious to get an idea of the size of Delphi population that is actually in
circulation.

Q2: How many people use delphi in a non-visual/ non-rad way, ie VCL
component developers, server implementers etc (as opposed to drag and drop
development, BDE & Datasource type demo application stuff).  It seems that
when looking for contractors etc, or contract jobs that the pickings are
lean. Has everyone moved to .Net?

Now. lets see how much traffic this produces. :)
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