A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
The inestimable Malcolm Groves has a nice series going on the new Delphi Parallel Library. Recommended reading. I put a tag cloud over there on the left. Now I just have to remember to put tags on all my posts. I welcome feedback on the new blog. As I said, my goal is to keep…
Introduction An important step to writing Clean Code is the notion of separating “commands” and “queries” by using the Command Query Separation Principle. The notion was first discussed by Bertrand Meyer in his book Object Oriented Software Construction. This means that the idea is not new. In its basic form, it means we should separate the…
Jon Postel was a guy that wrote an early specification for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. You use it every day to surf the web, send emails, etc. One of the guiding principles that he used when writing it was this: Be conservative in what…
Yet again, I’d like to thank all of you who have bought my book or received it as an upgrade incentive. Once again I’ll say that the book has been more successful than I ever imagined. So successful, in fact, that I’m going to work on another one along the same lines. By that I…
Delphi XE7 Update 1 is available. Nice. The release notes have the link to where you can get it. I’d like to thank the great staff at EKON 18 for a great conference and a great trip. It was fun (despite the fact that I lost my phone and felt like a lost puppy without…
I am using the Crayon Code Highlighter. Let’s see how it works: procedure ConfigureOptions; var Option : IOptionDefintion; begin Option := TOptionsRegistry.RegisterUnNamedOption<string>(‘The file to be processed’, procedure(value : string) begin TSampleOptions.FileToProcess:= value; end); Option.Required := true; Option := TOptionsRegistry.RegisterOption<Boolean>(‘OutputInUpperCase’,’o’, ‘The output should be in upper case’, procedure(value : Boolean) begin TSampleOptions.OutputInUpperCase:= value; end); Option.Required :=…
Hello World from my new blog! This is my new blog. My goal for it is to keep the design simple and the content interesting.
This is a list of books that I think that every developer should read. Let me know if you think a book should be added to this list. Book Discussion Coding in Delphi by Nick Hodges (Me!) I naturally think everyone should read my own book. Clean Code by Robert C. Martin This…
I wrote a series of articles on using TVirtualInterface. Here are links to all the articles in order: TVirtualInterface: Interfaces without an Implementing Class TVirtualInterface: Next Steps TVirtualInterface: A Truly Dynamic and Even Useful Example
I do this website mostly for fun and to contribute back to the Delphi community that has give so much to me. But hey, I’m not entirely selfless — If I can pick up a few bucks or some other goodness while doing all this, well, I’m not shy. So, if you feel like helping…