RAD Studio XE2 World Tour continues! It was so cool this week to visit Spain and Portgual and show off the biggest release of Delphi and C++Builder since Delphi 1! All events were fully booked, conference rooms fully packed and energy levels and enthusiasm doubled since last year XE launch. FireMonkey represents milestone in the history of technology innovation. The innovation spirit in Scotts Valley and other Delphi R&D centres across the world is alive and kicking! After combining c...

Quintus Arrius, in the movie Ben Hur, implores the rowers to give him "Battle speed!... Attack speed!... Ramming speed!"  On October 15, 1997, the rocket powered car, ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, set a world land speed record of 763 mph. ThrustSSC is the first car to break the sound barrier on land. The qote, "I feel the need, the need for speed", from the movie Top Gun, says a lot about what drives our native code compiler team. Who doesn't want more speed and fast optimizing compilers? ...

In the most recent episode of Hanselminutes, Scott chats with founders of Mustang Software (creators of Wildcat! BBS) Jim Harrer and Scott Hunter about the BBS era. Wildcat! was written in Turbo Pascal, and Harrer and Hunter state that it was one of the first major applications developed in that language. In the first part of the show, they discuss going to California to meet with the Turbo Pascal team, visiting Anders Hejlsberg's house, and more early history. It's worth a listen if you're i...