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Bookmarks and Navigator acquired by Embarcadero

In some exciting news, I’m pleased to announce that Parnassus Bookmarks and Navigator have recently been acquired by Embarcadero. Both plugins will be made available as part of RAD Studio in an upcoming release. I’m very happy to have the two plugins now part of Delphi and C++Builder. They were written to provide features I […]


Bookmarks and Navigator for 10.2 Tokyo – plus new features!

I’m very pleased to release  and . What’s new? New in Navigator 1.4 New minimap rendering. Navigator has had a minimap since the very beginning, and a great deal of attention was paid to how it rendered. The minimap is antialiased and renders the text itself. However, this often meant lines of code were quite faint / blurred […]


Joining Embarcadero as C++ Product Manager

I’m very pleased to announce that I recently joined Embarcadero as C++ Product Manager.  You can read more details on my Embarcadero blog post, but I’ll be looking after C++Builder as well as some other areas, including IDE user experience. Parnassus and the IDE plugins I make have not been acquired, and remain independent. Working […]


Antialiased images on the Delphi splash screen

How do you have nice-looking icons on the Delphi / C++Builder IDE splash screen? As regular readers of my blog or users of my plugins know, I care about details and appearance a lot. This is visible in the visual style of my plugins, but also carries through to the source code or design. The […]


Navigator and Bookmarks now available for Berlin

Parnassus Bookmarks and Parnassus Navigator are now available for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin. I apologise for the delay – Berlin has been out over a week now and I normally aim for a 24-hour or 48-hour-max turnaround for new releases. There were a variety of technical reasons, now all resolved. Download and . Installs on XE and […]


Bookmarks 1.5 and Navigator 1.3.2 released!

I’m very pleased to release two new updates with some neat new features, including automatic resume after navigating in Navigator, and code preview snippets in the dockable list in Bookmarks. Read on for download links and full details! New in Bookmarks 1.5 () New: Code preview! The line of code where a bookmark is located can […]


Skill sprint: Developing IDE plugins – replay now available

Just before Christmas I did a skill sprint on developing IDE plugins, covering some topics that aren’t usually covered – dockable forms and drawing on the IDE editor, as well as notifiers and the fundamentals of writing plugins. The replay is now available: Note there is an error in the video: I say that the docs […]


Embarcadero Skill Sprint – Developing Plugins in RAD Studio, Dec 22 2015

 On Dec 22 I’m running an Embarcadero skill sprint on writing plugins for Delphi and C++Builder – and it covers a lot more than many plugin intros do. Register for the webinar if you find the topic interesting! Times 6AM San Francisco / 9AM New York / 2PM London / 3PM Milan 11AM San Francisco / 2PM […]


Navigator v1.1 released – with XE and XE2 support and a special offer

I’m very pleased to release Navigator 1.1! This version now supports Delphi XE and XE2 (in addition to XE3-8 that version 1.0 supported), and has a number of bugfixes, tweaks and new features. And if you buy before July 31st, get 20% off by entering the coupon code JULYSPECIAL. This is in honour of working indoors at […]