What is it about?

Well yes, I don't really like blogs, do I? Usually I don't read any, and most personal stuff isn't stuff I would generally post in a blog. But there are so much software development issues that I sometimes want to shout out...

Example: Borland Delphi. Delphi 2006 was released late last year. Since then, I've been posting about one bug per day. Out of the 130 bugs I have reported to Borland, only 5 or 6 have been solved yet, and I wonder how Borlands Quality Central creates those much better looking statistics. There are bugs open for more than three years. I can't even open a project in the Delphi IDE properly - since Delphi 2005 at least, every second attempt to do so resulted in a "List index out of bounds" error.

The logical step was to step back from Delphi. I've been converting many projects to FreePascal and Lazarus recently. They offer compilers for Linux and the Mac, even for Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile) now. If I report a bug I can't fix myself, it'll most likely be fixed in a few days. Except for code refactoring or docking, it's 0.9.x versions are more productive for me than Borlands 10th release of Delphi.

To cut a long story short, I'll use this blog mostly for stuff related to this move of my development environment. No promises on how up-to-date I'll keep it or what exactly I'll post here though ;)