A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Hey — This blog is fun and I hope educational, but it reaches only a certain spectrum of the developer community — that is, almost all of you are Delphi developers. I’m grateful to every one of you that has read my blog and bought my books, but I wanted to try to reach out…
Gateway Ticketing is hiring. Things are going really well, and we need to expand what we are doing. We are looking for developers — Delphi developers specifically, but we are mostly interested in smart people that know what they are doing when developing high-quality software. We love Delphi and C#, but in the end, those are just languages…
Joel Spolsky is kind of a hero to me. He was one of the first developer bloggers — one of the first guys to write about things that we developers were thinking about and talking about. He wrote classics like “The Joel Test” and stuck up for developer environments with “Bionic Office“. It was revelatory. …
First, I want to thank all of you that have bought one or more or my books. I’m very grateful. Second, I wanted to post to make sure that everyone knows that I have three books out and how you can buy them. Book Buy in Paperback Buy in Digital Form Buy on Amazon for…
Are you on Update Subscription for RAD Studio? You are? Great. Wise move. You aren’t? Why not? We are very interested in you being on Update Subscription — so much so that you pretty much have to be when you upgrade. We do this because Update Subscription is really great for you, and not bad…
I’m digging the new job. Lots of interesting things going on. Lots of great plans. Now, you may not realize it, but I’m the Director of Product Management for all the Embarcadero products, including a very cool product named RAD Server. Many of you may have heard of RAD Server, but aren’t exactly sure what…
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 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…
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…
When I was in the Navy, I had a friend named Tom. Not only a great naval officer, aviator, and all-around good guy, he was also a good husband. And by good husband I mean that he modified his beloved Ford truck to include a tow hitch for his wife’s horse trailer. It was a…