A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Someone finally wised up and wrote a FireMonkey book. I gather its in German as well as English. The march of Delphi books continues. This is good news. I now am the proud owner of a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. What should I do with it? Currently it is merely acting as network storage.…
Well, here we are; one hundred Flotsam and Jetsam’s. I started this series just after I left Embarcadero. Here’s a link to the very first one on July 17, 2010. Short and sweet it was. Took almost five years to get here to one hundred. Thanks for hanging with me. Here’s to another 100, eh?…
Hey, look who’s the first quote in this list of programmer’s proverbs! Me! Thanks, Infoworld! Community Member Kevin Powick has created a slack.com group called DelphiTalk. Come join us! Primož Gabrijelčič has created a cool new tool for building SQL statements. I may have to incorporate this into my work project as – sadly –…
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…
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…
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…
We have a vibrant .Net community here in the Eastern Pennsylvania/Philadelphia area. Philly.Net runs events once or twice a month at the Microsoft campus, and semi-annual Code Camps that are usually attended by well over 700 people. I attend whenever I can. But I’ve noticed something interesting over the last year or two: almost all…