Comments on: Spirit of Delphi Award 2009

By: Delphi Legends 2009 Community Award - The Podcast at Delphi.org

Delphi Legends 2009 Community Award - The Podcast at Delphi.org — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:23:37 +0000

[...] Thomas of Wings-of-Wind.com started a community poll. Originally he was calling it the Spirit of Delphi award, but then it was pointed out that the Spirit of Delphi is awarded by the Delphi R&D team. Well [...]

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:35:13 +0000

I am very flattered to be nominated among such notable contributors to the Delphi community. It is great to see so many doing so much for the tool we all love.

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:25:50 +0000

R. I. P.
Where can I find more info about Peter McNab?

By: Marius Popescu

Marius Popescu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:37:50 +0000

Hi,

While I would surely vote for Zarko Gajic, I just thought: maybe Peter McNab who passed away recently (this year), long time developer of DUnit, should get some (even tardive) recognition of his work. If not as a community award, maybe as a Embarcadero “Delphi heros hall of fame” …

Marius

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:03 +0000

Go to the sister site (in our case meta.so.com), and create an account with the same OpenID which you used on SO.com. After this on the ‘Accounts’ tab on your newly created Account (see ‘My Account’) you should have the option ‘Link the account to the account from SO.com’. Beware, you cannot earn more than 200 points daily. So, if you want to make points, do it in a day in which you didn’t gain anything.

HTH.

PS: If isn’t clear please drop a note to expand further.

By: Robert Lakinski

Robert Lakinski — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:22:09 +0000

My vote for Peter.

For future considerations: Chad Hower.

By: Ken Knopfli

Ken Knopfli — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:15:32 +0000

Like the Peace Prize to Obama

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:23:40 +0000

+1 for Jim McKeeth

By: LDS

LDS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:47:11 +0000

1st is Jon Skeet – and looks at comments. And look at the definition of “famous” in the question. What is “fame”? The StackOverflow ranking? The number of Google results? We have a strange idea of “fame” nowadays. Fame is something that stands time, not a number of “hits” today. Probably famous developers as a lot to do without being able to publish it, and get much fewer hits.
I’d prefer logical responses that emotional ones – I expect them from developers – oh well, they removed version 13 because of superstition!
I’d prefer the Delphi community to get out of childhood and become an adult community of professionals. There’s a lot of childish still, as the religious-like worshipping of the product, some members, and sometimes the company too – which probably led Stob to write her funny tales.
Sometimes too much enthusiasm is as much negative as too little, because it may hide real issues that must be faced before it’s too late. Hiding them under the carpet, shouting “whatever they decide is the the right decision for us because they know what is best for us” like in a communist or teocratic country won’t help the “community” at all. At least not those who work with Delphi, not play with it.

By: OBones

OBones — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:44:51 +0000

Hello,

In your post, you say “Go there, link your SO.com account (you’ll receive 100+ points reputation just for that)”
How does one actually do that?

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:21:22 +0000

Thanks. Noted.

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:14:48 +0000

Thanks Dave for the suggestions!
I’ll definitely add them to the survey.
Stay tuned.

By: The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:40:03 +0000

For future considerations Gary Darby from http://delphiforfun.org

For the Delphi Legends Masters award for Peter Below
For the Delphi Legends Golden award Zarko Gajic

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:15:10 +0000

Zarko Gajic get my vote for this year, if it was not for his contribution I would of gave up on Delphi in the beginning .

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:18:37 +0000

My vote goes to the incredible, Master, Genius Peter Below!
Bye.

By: Zarko Gajic

Zarko Gajic — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:17:02 +0000

My vote goes to Peter! Peter should have got this years ago …

Anyway thanks for putting me on the list and thanks to all who gave me “+1″

@”John G” : I like this one “East or west, Gajba is the best” – can I use that?
Btw, oh stranger, how do you know my super-secret nickname?

@Alexandre: yes, but there’s still time for me to write about ‘em

@Heinz: I think that “Spirit of Delphi Award″ means only “Spirit of Delphi Award” not FOR a particular year. This prize was given to people of the Delphi community whose contribution through time was “recognized”.

By: TDelphiHobbyist

TDelphiHobbyist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:10:58 +0000

Wow, some real heavyweights [including in the suggestions posts] there. I, pretty much, use them all quite extensively when when I need to learn something new or am looking for an add-in to help me improve the functionality of the IDE. As much as those already mentioned are all guru’s to me, I have a couple in addition, that certainly deserve honorable mention:

Jim McKeeth http://www.delphi.org/
Neil Moffatt http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/ and
Alister Kristie http://codegearguru.com/

If the two given are the limits of the voting, it’s a really tough call but I’d have to go with Peter.

By: Alexandre Machado

Alexandre Machado — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:42:55 +0000

Zarko Gajic!! There are few things related to Delphi that can’t be found in About.com.

Best regards

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:29:34 +0000

+1 for Delphi Legends

About the prize for Embarcadero’s employees: See it like a “we like and approve what you do”. This doesn’t mean that the employee is the best one in the company. Also, this will be a strong stimulative factor to push someone forward or bringing him back – depending on the case.

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:21:37 +0000

Anyway, if you don’t mind, you are now a nominee. I do think that this is a recognition to your work even if you “certainly didn’t contribute one tenth of what Zarko and Peter did.” FTR, I also agree with Rich’s proposal.