A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
My friends David Millington and Roman Yankovsky have teamed up to offer a Christmas time special. You can buy both of their tools for the price of Fix Insight. What are those tools? Well, David’s tool is Navigator – a powerful, easy to use way to navigate your code. Roman’s tool is Fix Insight –…
I am doing two Embarcadero Partner Spotlights in the coming weeks. Both will be 15-20 minute videos about chapters in my book. The first will be on the Command Pattern, and the second will be on Aspect-oriented Programming. You can sign up here. There are some other good partner spotlights coming up as well, including…
In the last Flotsam and Jetsam, I mentioned a few things that are leaking out about the next release of RAD Studio. Here’s one I missed, about new stuff in the designer and the IDE. Nice features. And oh, you can sign up for a webinar that looks like it will be showing all of…
It’s Delphi Survey time. You can take it here. I can assure you from personal experience that the results of the survey have a big impact on the future direction of the product, so please take the time to fill it out as completely as possible. I think it is only out for a limited…
David Millington of Parnassus Software – author of the great and free Bookmarks plugin — has released a new commercial IDE plugin called Navigator. Looks pretty sweet. The book is this close to being done. I just have to get it past the folks at CreateSpace. Actually, the writing and editing is all done, it’s…
Number 10 with a bullet! As you may have noticed on my LinkedIn Profile, I am once again an employee at Gateway Ticketing. This time around, I am a Senior Software Developer, meaning I am full-time Delphi Developer. I’m delighted to be back in the new beautiful building that Gateway has built. I’m also pleased…
Two things about Martin Harvey’s threading article that I posted. First, Alexey Gavrilov was kind enough to send me version 1.1a, which I have posted. Second, it turns out that the article/book is available on CodeCentral. So if you want to download it for yourself, you can. But now, at least, people can find it…
Stefan chastises me for making another one of my pronouncements on “evil” programming techniques. I admit to a bit of hyperbole, but it’s not without a point. The argument against my pronouncements is that the wise and judicious use of these so-called “evil” features or techniques is good. I don’t agree. I think that if…
Stefan Glienke has two interesting polls going on: Let’s do some demographics of the Delphi developers – how old are you? How long ago did you start using Delphi? Here’s a blog post from a guy that has written a mostly-working Turbo Pascal compiler written in Javascript. Kind of cool. Ten Tips For Migrating From…
Wallace and Gromit run on Delphi. I of course want you to buy my book, but I have been doing research for my next book and am thus reading sections of Delphi XE2 Foundations. I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s a tour de force for Delphi and the RTL. I know how hard it…