I've updated the Dhunspell wrapper. There was a runtime error that was caused by using linking to the C runtime dll.

There have been a few blog entries discussing the 5 things they would do to "save" Microsoft. Those blogs are interesting reads. Much of CodeGear's ability, and certainly Delphi's ability to survive and thrive depends on how well Microsoft does.

So I've been playing with NetBeans and Groovy recently, mostly looking to build cross platform GUI's rather than leverage Java's server-side stuff. I just have to say that I'm very impressed with NetBeans. I'm not a Java guy, but a few years ago I had looked at NetBeans and written it off completely; I felt it paled in comparison to Eclipse, and Eclipse was gaining a lot of industry momentum. Beyond that, I thought SWT was the hands-down winner over Swing.

Chad Hower recently posted his alternative Delphi roadmap on his blog. I email fairly frequently on a list where Chad, myself and others discuss all sorts of technical issues. Chad acknowledges me as a collaborator to his roadmap so I just wanted to clear up where we disagree. :)

As part of my cross platform GUI survey, I decided to look at the Mozilla framework. I still believe that the Groovy/Swing combo is going to be the most productive, but I wanted to share some of my thoughts about the Mozilla platform and relate them to CodeGear, Delphi and in particular Free Pascal.

Out of curiousity/fun, I was looking at ways of building cross platform GUI's, specifically on Mac OSX. I particularly like Ruby as a language so I thought I should investigate some of the options for Ruby GUIs. They all seem to have their strengths and weaknesses; most looked like bolted on enhancements/integrations and the only one that had a native OSX feel to it was the binding that actually used Cocoa itself (not cross platform).

Over the holidays I decided to write a wrapper around Hunspell. Anyway, here's the (updated) fruit of my labor.