Delphi Programming at Cambria
It might be said that Delphi programming at Cambria began in 1984 when we wrote our first custom software using Turbo Pascal, the predecessor of Delphi and still the language that Delphi Programming is based upon. It is the oldest programming tool in continuous use at Cambria and we have been using Delphi for custom programs from Turbo Pascal 1 through to the current Delphi Version 8.

The Cambria Delphi Programming Team
With the addition in 2007 of Jon Mora and Dan Santor the Delphi programming team at Cambria has recently grown from 3 to 5, reflecting the continuing utility of this tool. James Cerezo, Yuliy Belitskiy, and Dick Crewdson have in the past been the ones most called upon for Delphi programming. Dick is president of the company and has programmed in Pascal/Delphi since Cambria first opened its doors. James is an expert Delphi programmer who is conversant enough with the details of Delphi that his team prior to joining Cambria wrote a program that translated Visual Basic code to Delphi.

Sample Delphi Programming Projects
A few years ago a major Delphi Programming project was to write the software for the Mitsubishi line of Diamond Video Series 9100 Group Videoconferencing Systems. The software for the early versions of this line of products were written in the Delphi Programming language .

A major Delphi programming project in a different field was one for a multi-level marketing company. Another current project is an upgrade of an earlier Pascal program to analyze the stresses in steel joists. A Delphi programming project dear to our hearts here at Cambria is the internal program that controls our operations here at Cambria. It includes time and billing, accounts receivable and numerous modules controlling most aspects of a consulting company.

Why Delphi Programming
Turbo Pascal was a sensation when it was introduced in 1983 because of the simple elegance of its language, the speed of the compiler and the ease of creating complex readable source code. It is much like C and Object Pascal much like C++. Unlike C/C++, however, Pascal, and Delphi, help the programmer by having a compiler that catches common programmer errors. As a result, applications can be written faster and with fewer bugs.

With Delphi 8 we have an alternate tool to produce .Net applications. Moreover, it is the only choice for creating cross platform programs, with a common code base, that can run on .Net, Win32 and Linux.