A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Been a while, eh? Obviously the biggest news to cover is the Idera acquisition. By now I’m sure you all are aware that Idera Software has acquired Embarcadero. (It always seems strange to me when a smaller company bys a bigger one, but never mind….) They’ve done an interesting thing. They’ve taken the Embarcadero database…
Want to buy both of my books in electronic form? Well now you can get a deal on it – The Coding in Delphi Bundle. Buy the bundle and save $15! As always, I’m very grateful to the Delphi community for all your support.
My friends David Millington and Roman Yankovsky have teamed up to offer a Christmas time special. You can buy both of their tools for the price of Fix Insight. What are those tools? Well, David’s tool is Navigator – a powerful, easy to use way to navigate your code. Roman’s tool is Fix Insight –…
My deal with Embarcadero has expired, so More Coding in Delphi is now available for sale in electronic form. That makes a total of four ways to buy my two books: You can buy More Coding in Delphi in paperback or electronic form You can still get Coding in Delphi in paperback or electronic form.…
I just got back from attending EKON 19 in Köln, Germany. I had a really good time and learned a lot. In fact, I learned the most in one of the sessions I gave – a three hour workshop on Dependency Injection. Stefan Glienke was there – he maintains and enhances the Spring Framework –…
I am doing two Embarcadero Partner Spotlights in the coming weeks. Both will be 15-20 minute videos about chapters in my book. The first will be on the Command Pattern, and the second will be on Aspect-oriented Programming. You can sign up here. There are some other good partner spotlights coming up as well, including…
In the last Flotsam and Jetsam, I mentioned a few things that are leaking out about the next release of RAD Studio. Here’s one I missed, about new stuff in the designer and the IDE. Nice features. And oh, you can sign up for a webinar that looks like it will be showing all of…
It’s Delphi Survey time. You can take it here. I can assure you from personal experience that the results of the survey have a big impact on the future direction of the product, so please take the time to fill it out as completely as possible. I think it is only out for a limited…
I hope most of you have heard by now, but my second book is out and it is called “More Coding in Delphi”. It’s a book very similar in nature to my first book (Coding in Delphi, which is still very much for sale) in that it covers coding techniques for Delphi Developers. You can…
David Millington of Parnassus Software – author of the great and free Bookmarks plugin — has released a new commercial IDE plugin called Navigator. Looks pretty sweet. The book is this close to being done. I just have to get it past the folks at CreateSpace. Actually, the writing and editing is all done, it’s…