Nick Bradbury : Comments

RE: Why I Use Delphi

hehe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:18:20 CDT

I'm just gonna start learning programming next week. Would you recommend me to learn this?

RE: Why I Use Delphi

Calvin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:41:45 CDT

Here are why I don't program in Delphi:

1) Unless you're optimizing like crazy, Delphi apps are slower than any other. FeedDemon was a slow pain to use, and then I switched to RSSOwl. (That's Java AND using the Eclipse framework) A JAVA app is outpacing a Delphi app. The only truely fast Delphi app I used was anything by Jordan Russell.

2) Price$. Delphi's goin down the drain unle$$ they make an expre$$ edition or at lea$t make the price$ less in$ane.

3) Syntax. 1990 called, it wants it's Pascal-like syntax back.

RE: Why I Use Delphi

Kaemaril — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:11:29 CDT

I remember earlier editions of Delphi were relatively inexpensive, and thus readily accessible to 'hobbyist programmers'. Delphi 2009 Professional is, as far as I can see, the least expensive at $900. That sort of price will just see enthusiasts heading toward Visual Studio express editions...

RE: Why I Use Delphi

Craig — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:34:26 CDT

Alexey, Delphi 2009 finally got unicode so those rows of funny characters should be a thing of the past.

RE: Why I Use Delphi

MenoRikey — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:04:59 CDT

Just build web-based apps. ;>

RE: Why I Use Delphi

Alexey — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:01:44 CDT

The sure sign of a Delphi application is rows of question signs were non-English characters should be. Even NewsGator is guilty of this, in places.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

amanda — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:26:50 CDT

Oh, wow. Honestly, I can't think of a piece of software that I loved more than Homesite. I also hooked every one of my employers and coworkers on it back in the day when I still did a bit of code monkeying. I've been a Mac person for the last few years and just recently downloaded Coda. I'm super rusty but I had the thought as I purchased, 'Gosh, I hope it's like Homesite.'

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Jason Grunstra — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:42:44 CDT

I still use it to this day. It's still has the best & fastest global find/replace of any development software solution.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

David Clark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:31:34 CDT

Homesite was my favorite windows application ever, and was the most important application to replace when I went to mac (started with bbedit, now Textmate).
I always felt that homesite was the diamond in the rough that Macromedia never appreciated in Macromedia's acquisition of Allaire

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Moshe Eshel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:11:28 CDT

I think I already said thank you once, but I'll say it again!
HomeSite was/is a great tool, although I don't use it anymore (I moved on to do other things) but I remember it as the first tool that I really used, also the first shareware I paid for (not personally, the company I worked for, through my recommendation). Also loved TopStyle which I gather is still on.

Great job with those applications, I certainly have fond memories!

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Jon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:38:03 CDT

I'll agree with your sentiment that time has passed HomeSite by, but in many ways it remains my favorite editor. I learned so much using it -- way back from when it was shareware! Can't imagine the web without it. Thanks so much for all the work you've done, on HomeSite, TopStyle, etc., etc.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Fabio Serra — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:46:00 CDT

I learn HTML using HomeSite and I'm still using it for some tasks.
It was a shame it was silently abandoned with ColdFusion Studio and that the code was not opened to the community.
HomeSite is probably the only program I have been using for more than twelve years.
Thanks Nick, you are a great programmer.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Wil Genovese — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:06 CDT

I started with HomeSite 1.5 back in 1996 and purchased 2.0 a short time later. I was one of the many active people in the help forums and thanks to HomeSite I developed an interest in programming for the Internet which I still do today. I remember the fun you had with a particular 'Green Dog' inside a HomeSite easter egg. Thanks Nick for developing a great product and involving the community is it evolution and growth.

I'm so sad to see it go away especially since we don't have a fully featured and better replacement. (Yet) BTW: Nick, if your not in the prerealease for Bolt from Adobe, you should know that HomeSite users are having a major impact on the new IDE's features. Snippets live on in a new and improved form.

Thank You,
Wil Genovese (former known as "The Juggler")

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

David — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:32:25 CDT

I still use HomeSite 5.5 at my day job. We're forced to use Windows there, and although we have the latest version of Dreamweaver, I continue to use HomeSite because it's lean and has just about all the features I ever find myself needing. Guess I'll be hanging on to my copy as long as possible!

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Dan Thies — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:22:31 CDT

Glad to see that YOU have not been discontinued, Nick. Homesite was a great "thing" in its day even when it wasn't the greatest software because of the way it was always improving. I long ago moved to HTML-Kit and TopStyle and now to a Mac - you built the tools that built a lot of my sites. Thanks!

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Ximbalo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:31 CDT

*sigh*

This has been my favorite, and pretty much ONLY code editor, since I moved from C++ to coding websites in 1998. I've never had the patience to really work with WUSSY Wiggers and just end up coming back to what I do best... OSD perfectionist hard codin'. So... now, does this mean that you, Nick, can take HomeSite back and keep it alive? Can ya, huh, huh, can ya? :-|

Best regards...
Ximbalo

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Chris Bernard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:24:22 CDT

This was my first (and still my favorite) Web tool--and I'm not a hard core Web guy. I'd say it was one of those canonical designer and developer tools that really drove digital. Alone with Debabilizer, Media Cleaner and my favorite motion graphic and 3D tools Commotion and Electric Image. I've surely dated myself at this point. :)

RE: If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support

Roy Reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:04:56 CDT

HS hasn't been updated since v5.5 (released September 2003). Macromedia were working on v6 - I was on the working group - and there were some really good ideas for the new version, but then it went away and since Adobe took over - nothing. I've got the new version of TS, but I haven't really clicked with it yet.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Marcus Whitney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:37:06 CDT

Homesite was my first real HTML editor. Before that I used notepad. At HealthStream in 2002 I was a Coldfusion guy, and I remember Homesite as my weapon of choice before Allaire ported a lot of its functionality to ColdFusion Studio.

Never imagined I'd be friends with the guy who wrote that software.

Let me add a pat on the back. Nice Work Nick.

RE: HomeSite Discontinued

Mark Simmons — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:45 CDT

On behalf of thousands of folks who were trying to figure out their place between developer, coder, business, design, and feed-myself-with-this-gig during the web site free-for-all building days (circa 1998-2003): thank you. Homesite was one of the best designed products I've ever used; it made me better at what I did but also respected what I already knew.

Nostalgia is fine in the right place, and this is the right place.

Congrats.