A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…
Number 10 with a bullet! As you may have noticed on my LinkedIn Profile, I am once again an employee at Gateway Ticketing. This time around, I am a Senior Software Developer, meaning I am full-time Delphi Developer. I’m delighted to be back in the new beautiful building that Gateway has built. I’m also pleased…
A confession: I was given a free license to review FixInsight. A summation: I really like it. It’s in a category tool that I think most Delphi developers don’t take advantage of. A statement: It’s not as powerful as Delphi’s Code Audits, but it is more usable. I presume that Roman Yankovsky will continue to…
Two things about Martin Harvey’s threading article that I posted. First, Alexey Gavrilov was kind enough to send me version 1.1a, which I have posted. Second, it turns out that the article/book is available on CodeCentral. So if you want to download it for yourself, you can. But now, at least, people can find it…
Threading in Delphi, or in any other tool for that matter, is difficult. There are a lot of good resources out there for Delphi developers, but perhaps none better than Martin Harvey’s “Multi-threading: The Delphi Way”. There is a copy of it here — http://thaddy.co.uk/threads/ – but sadly it doesn’t include the graphics and the…
Stefan chastises me for making another one of my pronouncements on “evil” programming techniques. I admit to a bit of hyperbole, but it’s not without a point. The argument against my pronouncements is that the wise and judicious use of these so-called “evil” features or techniques is good. I don’t agree. I think that if…
Stefan Glienke has two interesting polls going on: Let’s do some demographics of the Delphi developers – how old are you? How long ago did you start using Delphi? Here’s a blog post from a guy that has written a mostly-working Turbo Pascal compiler written in Javascript. Kind of cool. Ten Tips For Migrating From…
Wallace and Gromit run on Delphi. I of course want you to buy my book, but I have been doing research for my next book and am thus reading sections of Delphi XE2 Foundations. I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s a tour de force for Delphi and the RTL. I know how hard it…
The day is coming when you are going to have to pay to get bug fixes. You won’t like it at first, but that is the way things are heading. And you should like it. I can remember the day when software came with free support. You had a problem, you called up the company…
unit uEnumConverter; interface type TEnum = record public class function AsString<T>(aEnum: T): string; static; class function AsInteger<T>(aEnum: T): Integer; static; end; implementation uses TypInfo ; { TEnum } class function TEnum.AsString<T>(aEnum: T): string; begin Result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(T), AsInteger(aEnum)); end; class function TEnum.AsInteger<T>(aEnum:…