A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
I put up a poll on Google Plus asking what the greatest all time Delphi freeware/open source plugin/framework was. Thought you might like to vote. Work continues apace as we continue to prepare for Delphi Developer Days. I’m happy to say that there will be six folks attending in Baltimore from my employer, Gateway Ticketing. …
Delphius and Basicus were walking down a path. Delphius was a wise software developer with many years of experience. Basicus, Delphius’ student, had some experience as well, but lacked wisdom and often made foolish errors. As the two were walking, they came upon a wall blocking the path. The wall was made of stone and…
Hey, I’m pretty psyched to do Delphi Developer Days this year. I always love to travel, and I always love to talk about Delphi, and getting to do both at the same time is pretty great. If you haven’t heard, our agenda is out. We have a general schedule and a description of the presentations.…
Signups are open for Delphi Developer Days. Remember, the “Very Early Bird” special price ends on August 12, so start planning now. I love presenting and hanging out with Delphi developers, so I hope you’ll be at one of the events. Should be a very fun time all around. And of course, if your company…
I’m quite happy to announce that I’ll be part of Delphi Developer Days with Cary Jensen this year. I’m honored to be included, as DDD has long been a successful, interesting, and educational event. I’m joining a list of distinguished Delphi speakers who have participated in the past. I’ve been to DDD a number of…
My new book, “Dependency Injection in Delphi” is getting close to being published. It is a deep dive into Dependency Injection and the Spring4D DI Container. It’s going to be about 90 pages long or so, depending on the exact size the book ends up being. I’ll be publishing it first as an eBook, and…
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Okay, no cheating now. That is, no running the code until you’ve guessed. What is the output of this code? program Project90; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R *.res} uses System.SysUtils; var S: TObject; begin try S := nil; if S is TObject then begin Writeln(‘Yup’); end else begin Writeln(‘Nope’); end; except on E: Exception do Writeln(E.ClassName, ‘:…
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I’d like to offer my public and profuse thanks to the Danish Delphi Developers group – and most notably MVP Jens Fudge and his family – for their wonderful hospitality while I was in Denmark presenting at the DAPUG group. I talked for two days and had a great time. They were also kind enough…