Stack Overflow has a pretty good Delphi community. I am curious however where else Delphi developers are hanging out. I am looking for programming related community sites.
Obviously Forums.CodeGear.com is a popular place. Where else?
One of the reasons I ask is I was looking at Refactor My Code and noticed there is no Delphi category. Is it worth asking them to add one? Would any other Delphi developers contribute?
Jim --
I was told by the refactor my code guy that the open source code formatter he uses doesn't support Delphi, but then when I looked, I saw that in fact it did. I'd love to see Delphi code at Refactor My Code
Here is a handful of e-mail lists.
There are also a couple of non-CodeGear newsgroups:
I would use CodeGear/Embarcadero's official Forums. But they are ugly as sin, and have a horrible hard-to-use user interface.
Stackoverflow, by comparison is beautiful, addictive, and has a great Delphi community with notable people such as Jim McKeeth :-) and others who I shall not mention. But best of all, my questions get answered promptly and very well here. I hope it stays this way.
Also I can RSS all the Delphi posts and read the new ones with all my other feeds.
And I hope Embarcadero observes this and either changes their Forums, or adopts Stackoverflow.
Pascal Game Development is a good place for information on... well... you can probably guess from the name. There's a lot on Delphi, plus forums for FPC/Lazarus and cross-platform resources, and some other, more obscure Pascal compilers.
Im Brazil are some Forum and NNTP in Portuguese with pretty good community.
I have been active on some newsgroups. But a couple of years ago the quality descended and the troll count grew to enormous sizes. So I quit using that source.
Fortunately there is a very active software development network in the Netherlands that has a large Delphi community. And I found this source ;-).
Next year I'm going to check out some other sources. So I'm keeping an eye on this question.
There is a good community in the UK on cix which I have found invaluable over the years. There's unfortunately getting less traffic but the quality of postings and responses is generally excellent.
Ironically it was the Delphi conference on CIX that pointed me here :-)
Collection of Delphi related blogs: Delphi Feeds
The 3DBuzz site has some Delphi video tutorials (free sign-up required) and their own Delphi forum, but the discussions have been petering out. If there were some more interest, I bet they could be convinced to make more videos.
For the Delphi email group in Australia look at
and subscribe to the group. High quality of discussion and monthly meetings in each of the Australian capital cities. Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney particularly active. Absolutely no product or job advertising etc. Purely for non commercial discussion.
Enjoy,
Martin
There are large active community in experts-exchange website, they used to be very active with professional developer.
There is a New Zealand Delphi User Group. Not overly active but if a question question is asked it usually will get an answer (it's for NZ Delphi developers however).
I've been using DelphiPages forum for a number of years and have almost all of questions answered the same day I post.
You can find a big Spanish Community Language on:
http://www.ClubDelphi.com
15 years old and more than 23.000 registered users.
Neftalí
In French language, there is
http://www.developpez.net/forums/f15/environnements-developpement/delphi/
in German
http://www.delphifeeds.com/ is a collection of Delphi oriented blogs
What do you think about Lazarus? It is a multiplatform version of Delphi. A great project! http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/