A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
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…
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…
unit uEnumConverter; interface type TEnum = record public class function AsString<T>(aEnum: T): string; static; class function AsInteger<T>(aEnum: T): Integer; static; end; implementation uses TypInfo ; { TEnum } class function TEnum.AsString<T>(aEnum: T): string; begin Result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(T), AsInteger(aEnum)); end; class function TEnum.AsInteger<T>(aEnum:…
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 –…
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…