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…
This page was orginally published on Wed, 05/05/2010 – 10:29 on my Embarcadero blog. The next principle for the “Pretty Good Practices” we’ll discuss is this notion: Whenever possible and as much as possible, put functionality in a class – preferably a class that can be easily unit tested, reused, and separated from any user…
This post was originally made on Fri, 04/23/2010 – 14:35 on my Embarcadero blog. Okay, so for this first installment, I’ll be illustrating one of my core principles for developing applications: All my code of any importance at all goes under source control. All of it.I’m all by myself – why should I use…
Note: This is a “reprint” of content from my blog on Embarcadero.com when I was working there. They’ve since shut down my blog and the content is gone. I’m republishing it here. See the main article for more information. Okay, first up: I’ve put the tests and updates for DateUtils.pas on CodeCentral. So far, I’ve…
Note: This is a “reprint” of content from my blog on Embarcadero.com when I was working there. They’ve since shut down my blog and the content is gone. I’m republishing it here. See the main article for more information. First, an admin note: I’ve adjusted the color of strings in my code. I was optimizing the colors for…
Note: This is a “reprint” of content from my blog on Embarcadero.com when I was working there. They’ve since shut down my blog and the content is gone. I’m republishing it here. See the main article for more information. Okay, things have settled down again, and it is time to get back to my adventure in TDateTime and…
Note: This is a “reprint” of content from my blog on Embarcadero.com when I was working there. They’ve since shut down my blog and the content is gone. I’m republishing it here. See the main article for more information. Okay, so I’m a Development Manager. My job is to see to the health, welfare, productivity,…
While I was at Embarcadero, I started a series on what I considered “Pretty Good Development Practices”. Sadly, my tenure ended before I could continue the series further. Then, mystifyingly, Embarcadero shut down my blog, making all my content unaccessible except via the wonders of the Google Cache. Actually, now it seems that my old…