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<title>About — RAD Programmer</title>
<meta name="description" content="RAD Programmer is the Delphi tooling brand of Ideas Awakened, Inc., built by Darian Miller — Embarcadero MVP, shipping software since the MS-DOS days.">
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<h1>Hi — I'm Darian.</h1>
<p class="lede">RAD Programmer is the Delphi tooling brand of Ideas
Awakened, Inc. In practice, that means me: <strong>Darian Miller</strong>,
an <a href="https://www.embarcadero.com/resources/partners/mvp-directory">Embarcadero MVP</a> who has been shipping software since the MS-DOS days
— through the Windows desktop era, client/server, and into today's
mix of web, mobile, and cloud — with Delphi as my primary tool for
most of that ride, and still having fun with it.</p>
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<span>Embarcadero MVP</span>
<span>Shipping since MS-DOS</span>
<span>Delphi first, always</span>
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<h2><span class="stair" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>Why RAD Programmer exists</h2>
<p class="lede">Delphi codebases live a long time — decades, routinely
— and the developers who maintain them deserve tooling built with
respect for that source. That's the entire premise here: tools that are
provably safe before they are powerful, that run fully offline because your
code is nobody else's business, and that you buy once instead of renting
— no subscriptions, no phone-home, no surprises.</p>
<p class="lede" style="margin-top:14px">radFormatter is the first of these
tools. More are in development, for code analysis, exploration, and
automation.</p>
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<h2><span class="stair" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>Around the community</h2>
<p class="lede">If you've been around the Delphi world, we may have already
crossed paths: I write about Delphi development on my blog at <a href="https://www.ideasawakened.com">ideasawakened.com</a>, and you'll
find me on my <a href="https://t.me/delphidevelopers">Delphi Developer
Group on Telegram</a> — with over 1,700 members and is a great place to ask or
answer Delphi questions in a live-chat setting.</p>
<p class="lede" style="margin-top:14px">On GitHub, I publish open source at various places including:</p>
<ul class="lede">
<li>my personal account: <a href="https://github.com/darianmiller">github.com/darianmiller</a></li>
<li>Ideas Awakened repos mostly related to blog posts: <a href="https://github.com/ideasawakened/">github.com/ideasawakened</a> — this includes a popular list of Delphi versions found at this <a href="https://github.com/ideasawakened/DelphiKB/wiki/Delphi-Master-Release-List">wiki page</a>.</li>
<li>I recently created the <a href="https://github.com/continuous-delphi">Continuous Delphi Organization</a> —
which is building a growing collection of free, MIT-licensed tooling for Delphi developers: from command-line builds,
CI validation, and PowerShell utilities to lexers, parsers, and IDE plugins, all aimed at raising the engineering bar for long-lived Delphi systems.</li>
<li>RAD Programmer's commercial tools live at <a href="https://github.com/radprogrammer">github.com/radprogrammer</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="lede">We can also connect on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darianm/">LinkedIn</a> or if you like old-school message boards, then
I highly recommend <a href="https://en.delphipraxis.net/">Delphi-PRAXiS</a>, the International Developer Community.</p>
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<h2><span class="stair" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>The company</h2>
<p class="lede"><strong>Ideas Awakened, Inc.</strong> is the U.S. company
behind the RAD Programmer brand — the legal entity you'll see on
invoices, licenses, and the fine print. Following an exit from the
private-equity purchase at my previous software company, Ideas Awakened is
securely funded and building for the long term — which is exactly
what you want to hear from someone selling perpetual licenses.</p>
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