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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…
I’ve been whining about my difficulty in writing a book chapter about the Parallel Programming Library. I’m getting the hang of it, though, and it is as cool as it’s been touted to be. In fact, I’d venture to say that once you start using it, you’ll never really need to use `TThread` again. The…
Well, the next release of Delphi must be getting close. The Delphi Insider has information about Skill Sprints that will show some of the new features. Mitov Software has an interesting screen shot that looks like it has some sort of multi-view for mobile apps. Cool. Here’s a community post on what it is –…
Quote of the Week: “In general, you should always strive to eliminate the passing of null rather than checking for null.” – John Sonmez #DelphiWeek was fun. I followed the hashtag on Twitter, and saw all kinds of fun stuff, from people posting pictures of their old versions of Delphi (all the way back to…
To help celebrate #DelphiWeek and 20 years of continuous innovation, my book, Coding in Delphi, is $10 off for the next week. Just use the link below to receive the discount: https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi/c/delphiweek Thanks!
Last week I sang the praises of Stefan Glienke. Well, he has done it again. He’s released TestInsight – an IDE integration for unit testing. This is really cool – you can run your tests automatically right in the IDE. Give it a look – very, very nice stuff. Plus, it works with all the…
We’ve all been there. “How long will this take to get done?”. The answer they are looking for is “by this afternoon,” but most often the real answer is longer than that, often much longer. In fact, the real answer is “I don’t know”. But you have to give an answer. This is where you…
Blog of the Week: The blog of the week is Stefan Glienke’s Delphi Sorcery. He is doing all kind of cool things, including bringing some of the interesting things found in functional programming over to Delphi. His latest post is on Either – a record that can be either one thing or another. It’s similar…
In my post about my new book, I mentioned that I thought my outline was a little thin, and indeed it was. I left out a large topic about which I planned on writing – “Writing SOLID Code”. Add that in, and things seem a bit more fleshed out. The silly thing was that I…
Yesterday I made the following tweet: Never pass nil to a method, and don’t let your methods accept nil as a parameter value. — Nick Hodges (@NickHodges) January 19, 2015 and it started and interesting little discussion on Twitter. (I was actually honored that the great Mark Seemann himself entered into the fray…) Naturally, the…