A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Posts about Delphi
I’m sure you’ve heard by now, but Embacadero has released a Community Edition of Delphi and C++Builder. I have a few thoughts on the matter It looks like they are doing things right, making the Community Edition (basically) a non-commercial Professional version, with everything included. Well done. While a long time in coming, it’s a…
A commenter on my last post asked about why I bought 100 ISBNs. That does seem like a lot, no? Well, the ISBN game is a bit of a racket. ISBN stands for “International Standard Book Number” — and it uniquely identifies a book world wide. It even identifies different forms of the same book. …
I’m a big Medium fan and subscriber. There’s a lot of great writing there. I recently came across this article, The Economics of Writing a Technical Book, and read it with great interest. Having written three books of my own, I thought I’d write a bit about my experience with self-publishing a technical book. Suffice it…
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. …
I hereby humbly offer the following four suggestions to improve the Delphi product and community. Acquire the Assets of DevJet Have you guys seen the stuff done by DevJet? This is some seriously excellent work. They have two main projects — Documentation Insight and Code Insight Plus — that are both excellent, polished, and incredibly…
Hey, folks, I have some good news — I’ve dropped the prices on my books all across the board. This post from a few months ago has been updated with the new pricing. A few things to note: I’m giving dollar prices here, but the prices have also been lowered for Euros and British Pounds…
Just a quick update on what I’m up to — you guys have had a few questions. I have “parted ways” with Embarcadero and am back (for a third time!) at Gateway Ticketing Systems as a Senior Developer. It’s all good.
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…
Hey, we have a hotfix available for RAD Studio. It can be found on Code Central. It focuses on some issues in the tool chain. Given that it’s a hotfix, it only replaces a few choice files and doesn’t require an uninstall/reinstall process. Thanks to everyone who filled out the RAD Studio survey. We had…
Delphius and Basicus were both working on problems. Delphius was trying to fix his roof, and Basicus was trying to repair his front door. Both found their problem difficult. Delphius was unable to come up with a good solution for his problem. After a brief time of contemplating, he decided to ask his neighbor Pascala…