February 2010 Developer's Poll

[Damon]

Thanks in advance for your votes!

Cheers,
Damon

[smays]

I chose A.

I am in favor of articles featuring third party libraries, when the article is focused on the third party vendor library itself. I realize some of the articles are meant to cover VCL that ships with Builder that may either have bugs or the class is not structured quite as conveniently as one may like and the third party vendor software was written to help with those sorts of issues. However, for the sake of learning the existing VCL in all its glory, it would be nice for the article to only show the VCL. Perhaps it would then be helpful to see an article showing a third party solution to do the same, just better-er.

One quick example of how it would be useful to see the VCL that ships with Builder in all its glory is if we work our way through the various issues discussed in the article, perhaps even release a program or two, we will better appreciate the third party solutions. Sometimes in the articles the line where the VCL ends and where the third party vendor begins appears blurred and I tend to withdraw, thereby never really giving the third party a chance.

Thanks for asking, guys!
Steve.