A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
This post was originally published on December 13, 2011. I consider it a classic. There has been a large and ongoing thread in the Delphi Non-Technical newsgroup about the proper use of FreeAndNil. It’s been contentious and a tad touchy, too — just as I like it. 🙂 The discussion falls out into two schools of…
As always, I’m very grateful to all of you who buy my books. Thank you. But here’s something interesting about my books: Coding in Delphi sells more than More Coding in Delphi and Dependency Injection in Delphi. That means that there are many of you out there who have bought one of my books, but…
Okay, so I have successfully migrated the content from nickhodges.com over to this blog. As a result, I’m going to be altering what is on nickhodges.com, making it a bit more of a personal site advertising my wares, projects, interests, and what-not. In fact, I’m going to be doing that today — so this isn’t…
Hey, my book prices are dropping again: Coding in Delphi: The new price is $14.99. More Coding in Delphi is now $14.99 Dependency Injection in Delphi is now $9.99 The Coding in Delphi Bundle on LeanPub is now $29.99 The Nick’s Delphi Book Bundle on LeanPub is now $34.99 Links to both LeanPub, where you can by electronic copies, and Amazon, where…
Hey — This blog is fun and I hope educational, but it reaches only a certain spectrum of the developer community — that is, almost all of you are Delphi developers. I’m grateful to every one of you that has read my blog and bought my books, but I wanted to try to reach out…
Goodness, I’ve been neglectful of this blog. I have a problem, and I’m hoping you all can help me. Almost five years ago, I left my BlogEngine.net-based blog at http://nickhodges.com/ and moved my blog to here. I have a lot of content there, and a lot of links that still get viewed. I’d like to…
Gateway Ticketing is hiring. Things are going really well, and we need to expand what we are doing. We are looking for developers — Delphi developers specifically, but we are mostly interested in smart people that know what they are doing when developing high-quality software. We love Delphi and C#, but in the end, those are just languages…
Hey, I have a question for you fine people. What should I do with this?
UPDATED: I see now that my friend Kirk Halgren is the mystery man. Thanks, Kirk! Thanks to the comment of a generous reader — whom I am ashamed to say I can’t remember — I have updated the code for Dependency Injection in Delphi to remove all the uses of the GlobalContainer. The book removed…
Look, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know anything about anti-trust law that I haven’t read online or see on TV or whatever. But I just read about six articles in the New York Times about Amazon, and all of them have the tone that Amazon is this close to a lawsuit from the Department…