Rick_Delphi

Is there no one in the US building something awesome with Delphi? I keep looking but I'm not finding much. Mostly, it's just your same ole' same ole'--reinventing the wheel and making a dollar a day with all the pop u can drink. No one out there has come up with something lucrative and fascinating to develop and make fat stacks of cash?! This is sad, so very very sad.

Thank you! Patrick. I like that you said "(real) job offers." In the US we get a deluge of fake one's all the time. I want to find an opportunity, to use Delphi, to create solutions a company uses in-house to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. It also needs to offer great compensation--my latte costs alone are HUGE. lol Like the startup world, creating technology to sell, isn't of much interest to me these days. I'm really enjoying writing books right now, I might even be getting addicted to it. My interest in the computing world is about understanding the application domain, then building a solution quickly by generating the code (not entering it at the keyboard). In other words, I like to use Delphi and RAD to accomplish what it was intended for: Rapid Application Development. As for others here, I would suppose they are looking for a challenge to their coding skills. Maybe, some component development or updates to legacy applications. But, that's just a guess based on the posts I see here.

Oops... So, you would be another startup. That would make 3, maybe 4 that I've found. Something to consider is finding potential customers and seeing if they would fund the development. That way, you would have money and live testers. Startups sometimes do that to get an MVP done.

It did not. Now that I'm writing again, I'd like to do some Delphi stuff too. Writing is great, but it's difficult to do that for long hours everyday (well, at least for me it is). About 3 or 4 hours working on a book and I need a change for the rest of the day. I have put in 12 hour days of writing, turning out 7500+ words, but it leaves me worn thin for the next day.

It's my favorite IDE. I like others VS, Eclipse, etc, but prefer to work in Delphi.

Been there, done that, wore out the t-shirt. I'm not much interested in the startup scene these days.

I have found a startup or two that is using Delphi. But, I'm not really looking for that kind of situation. Too much of a roller coaster ride for me.

I've found some jobs, but the pay is low because they are wanting to grow the IT department larger. I'm looking for a unique opportunity that is exciting and very, very lucrative. I no longer need to build a resume or climb the corporate ladder. This is depressing!

My lifestyle requires $150K/yr just to support it. I can't wait three to five years for a startup to take off or go belly up.

What you are trying to do is reverse engineer the application - you start with a working app and you figure out how it does what it does. Reverse engineering happens everyday, but it is done by very experienced software developers.

That is 100% correct! Either intentionally or unintentionally that is the situation.

Partner.co is looking for a Delphi dev, but I had problems using their ATS, so you might want to contact them and ask for a way to email your resume instead.

Don't use that, I had problems with that. I received an email for me to schedule an interview and it didn't work. The company didn't call at either of the times specified. Also, the options to confirm, say thanks, and whatever resulted in a mailer daemon error. Don't provide any information until you speak with someone. I think Craig Kinney is the contact for that position.

Do they have to already be in Denmark or will you relocate the right person?

But, you don't want anyone to contact you?

It's a pretty good book, a lot of language type stuff. With low/no code being the focus today (again), look at component based development and generating most of your code. Learning to write all the basic code patterns before becoming productive at app development is a waste these days. If you study all the low-level stuff, you'll end up finding yourself on programming forums fighting about how to shave one clock-cycle off of a 10,000 line module. Also, as you have already learned, ten years will go by and your app still won't be ready for release.

The reason I started using Delphi was the RAD approach. Now with no-code low-code being new buzzwords, where does Delphi stand on that front?

A thousand dollars in U.S. currency.

Isn't it crazy what goes on these days in recruiting? Companies complain, but then won't change their approach. I've offered to take on $150K/yr roles for $120K/yr. Now, I only have part-time hours to assign to Delphi work. But still, companies don't take advantage of the opportunity to find out if I would be a good addition to their project, by spending just a few bucks for part-time help.

Not many intelligent people would.

I like the effort, Jim!

lol How many beers did you have for breakfast?

Would someone please identify the company in Atlanta, GA that is looking for a hybrid (2 days on-site and 3 days remote) Delphi person? Then help them find someone! Recruiters are posting dozens of copies of that job ad. It's like babysitting kids and they are all yelling for candy at the same time.

There is tons of information on a resume. People harvest them by the hundreds, then share the data. Also, some places pay for each resume that is uploaded to their database. Simply... Run an ad and have people upload their resume and you get paid for doing nothing but running the ad and waiting.

That's correct, it's been getting worse for years. Most of the legit ones I know have left the industry. I still know a small number that use the old style approach and are doing good, but not great. They spend long hours doing things manually to protect their reputation, while the scammers get rich scamming.