I am excited to see what you have planned next.  I know when I was laid off a few years back it ended up being a great thing for me and my family, despite my wife was 8 months pregnant at the time of the lay off.  You are a great guy, and I certainly see this working out for the best for you.

I was wondering if you would open up a site to call home so we could follow/stalk you around. Can't wait to see what opportunities presents themselves to you!

And, umm, that disclaimer's making my head spin...

Sad news  

Nick thanks for all your hard work promoting Delphi and I wish you best of luck finding new job, or maybe starting your own ;)

Glad to see your new blog. The thing I don't like is that I see your blog half in russian, half in english. Since the blog content is in english I prefer to see english menus also. Please do something with it - or you will get comments in languages that you don't know.

Glad your new blog is up.  I wish you all the best, and look forward to your future posts.  If you're ever in the Tulsa, OK area (not likely, I know!), drop me a line.

When I Read what happened to Nick it felt like being kicked in the balls.
Nick needs a Job NOW. So its time YOU people who care about find him a great job for him.

@Nick -
Nice blog!

@Serg - I see the menus in my native language (Portuguese). That's something maybe have to do with the version/language of the browser.

Nice to see your blog online. Same here, menus are in German. I think your blog engine sees  my browser language headers and switches languages of the ui. Perhaps you can simply turn this off in some admin setting?

As i stated over in the BorCodaGearo forum post i wish you find a new opportunity soon and keep us informed what happened to you. And we hopefully meet again at some conferences as time goes by ;)

@Fabricio Araujo - No, the problem is in blog engine - looks like it is too much intelligent to determine a visitor's country and draws menus in a language that it assumes a visitor's native language. Not good, for example you are native English visiting Brasil, and you see blog menus in Portuguese.

You're working for Netscape?  

Looking forward to seeing what you're up to next.

Nick, if you are ever in the northern Colorado area, let me know, and I'll treat you to a free lunch. In fact, I recommend a trip to Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park before your time is all consumed at a new job.

In fact, you'd love living here. Conservatives outnumber liberal 2 to 1 around here.

Well done Nick. Now I see English menus, much better.

woa, a Delphi legend, what is left from Delphi will surely miss you, time to move on to bigger things, I wish you all the best, thanks for all the fish

Nick thanks for all your hard work promoting Delphi in the community and inside EMBT. Has been very nice talk with you at last Delphi Live 2009.

Way to go, Nick!!!


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*sad*...

THX for everything...

*wishing u the best for future*...

sy...

Just recently I noticed that David I seemed to be blogging every day with posts promoting a time-limited special offer on RAD studio which was unusual, not his kind of thing.
Looking back that now seems very significant and hints at foresight.

Hi Nick, missed the drama but best wishes to you and will subscribe to your new blog. I'm sure you'll be missed as you always seemed 100% positive and helpful.

Hi Nick... Glad to see you are blogging again. You were one of the few people who still showed passion in Delphi from Borland/CG/Embarcadero(spell?). Thanks for all the help and support you have given to the community. You were one person I could always rely on to get an answer to a question when all other support options dry out.

You will find much greener pastures, intellectually and materially. Keep us posted.

Good to see that you're still blogging. I always look forward to your posts. Hopefully you'll still find time to keep blogging the way you did before.

Nice blog -- But there is no "China" in the country list...

Delphi knew very good days under your lead… This is sad day for Delphi. But, all I can say is: thanks for everything and good luck. Please stay close to the community, we get used to your style and your sense of humor.

-Issam

If everyone here could excuse me on this, unfortunately s**t still happens, and is worse that it still happens from the current owner of Delphi...

Despite the (rather big, at least around me) negative impact about the Delphi community's trust to Embarcadero at taking such a dreadful decision, I'm happy because such a great man and developer, as you are, Nick, is still around here.

I wish you the best. I know that unfortunately my country is not the best working neither living place yet, and my enterprise is definitely not that strong or big yet, but if that were the case, I wouldn't hesitate to try to bring you in.

I'm sure that you would get a greater job soon. Dammit, if I were Joel Spolski...

Truly, whatever I could do for you Nick, IMH-whatever, count me as a friend. And I know that a lot of people in the Mexico and Latam community think the same way.

P.S. If you don't want to leave this comment on your shine new blog (great desing btw, I like it) I don't care, I just wanted you to know.

Thanks for all your hard work promoting Delphi and I wish you best of luck finding new job, and just let you know this delphihaters.blogspot.com/.../nick-of-time.html

I'm glad to see you have your blog site launched now.
I know that the sentiments of respect and "well-wishing" don't solve this issue in your life, but it's nice to know that kind words don't fall on deaf ears.

Indirectly, you have helped me with my Delphi issues so many times... the irony of which is that you don't even know it. I've searched problems only to find answers provided by yourself which indeed serve as the appropriate solution.

Again I wish you all the best, and I'm confident a highly-skilled, highly-experienced man such as yourself will find work even in this worst of economies.

This is really a sad news that yet again another Delphi Legend was laid off by the company handling it. Best wishes for you Nick.

One thing that I didn't say before (on the thread), is that if I have 12 years of Delphi experience on resume you played a great part. Simply because your honest and passion make me believe in the product (after working with D2006 RTM - oh hell, how they allowed this thing get released that early?) when I was considering going to Dark Side.

For me, you were more influencing than Rozlog and David Intersimone.

Nick:

Muchas gracias por tantos años de dedicacion a la comunidad. Exitos en tu proximo empleo!

Sebastian

Hey Nick,

Just read this now. Quite shocked really, although I think it's for the best (for you) and wish you the best of luck in the future.

Hello Nick I have stored in your new blog in my bookmarks, I'm so sorry for what happened to you, if I had a company you take without thinking, there are few people in modern times like you, able to show and explain a product as if I were a family. As they say in my part when God closes a door, after opening a doorway. I repeat what I said on the forum emb made a mistake in sending you away.

Sorry for English, Greetings from Italy and I wish you many good things for the future. life goes on ... have lost much more than them that you

Nick,

Add me to the endless list of people wishing you all the best.  I only corresponded a few times with you in the past and saw you at the Australian Delphi user group meeting, but you always had my respect as an insider fighting for the Delphi users.

If there is a way you can reveal the reason for your dismissal it would be interesting.  Unless you got caught downloading torrents or porn on the company web

Take care.  I have bookmarked your blog for future reference.  Keep posting interesting Delphi articles in the future.  Even on the outside I am sure you still have that (maybe slightly soured) passion for Delphi?

Jason.

A friend once said: "There are no problems. There are just misunderstood opportunities."

I am sorry to see you exit from the Delphi team, as I think you over the years have been a thick-skinned, positive, intelligent and constructive interface between the newsgroup dwellers (edit: and the community as a whole) and the Delphi dev.team. I have no doubt that you will continue to bring such qualities into your next (ad)venture as well

Having seen a few mergers from up close and personal, I am not surprised that Embarcadero want to shake up the organisation. It doesn't relate to the quality of the people that are let go, as it often can be healthy to let some of the oldest aficionados go from a team, since they very often have a very deep emotional tie with a product or team. Even the best of us can get a bit entrenched in defending the old ways and how things "always should be done".

I hope that this will be a new opportunity for you, Nick, to step outside your comfort zone and boldly create new successes for yourself, and that it ends up as a positive development for the Delphi product as well.

I naturally also hope to continue to see your words of wisdom in the Delphi community!

Best wishes for your future, Nick!

Lars F.

Nice to se you on this new blog. Sad to se you leave Embarcadero, but I sure you will keep coding/working with Delphi and so be a great value for the community.
Hope that we still will se you on software conference all over the world.

Best luck and healthy live.

Anders Pedersen

Siempre agradecido por todos los años que trabajaste para el desarrollo de Delphi. Contribuiste a hacer grande este maravilloso entorno !!!

Toda la comunidad en Argentina, te desea muy buena suerte en tu próximo emprendimiento !!!

Best Regards !!!

Hi Nick,

I can only imagine how though it must have been trying to please everyone, being diplomatic and keeping friendly in quite some heated debates, communicating decisions you cannot only make on your own and more.

Not saying I agreed with everything you said or did, but I am well aware that being enthusiastic and motivating people can be quite a energy drain for yourself.

Your resume reflects an interesting life, and maybe it was just time to open another chapter of it, learn and experience new things.
I wish you lots of success and fun in boldly exploring the new opportunities this freedom gives you.

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish ;)
Maël

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Hi Nick,
i only want to say, that i really loved the community-work you've done.
Hope to here you got a new opportuniy soon. Do your thing and let hear of you.

wfg Florian

Hi Nick - Thank you so much for all the work you've done for Delphi and the Delphi community! I wish you only the best for your future!
Philipp

Hi Nick,

I was saddened to read about your departure from Embarcadero.  Your community work greatly enriched all of us.  And I still give thanks to your name every time I accidentally hit the Caps Lock key.  I wish you well on the next stage of your career.

Chris

Sorry to see you leave Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero. I have been helped by your work on numerous occasions and I am very glad for all that. This is a great loss to Embarcadero and Delphi.

Do let me know pkphilip (at) gmail.com in case you are still looking for work.