A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
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…
Threading in Delphi, or in any other tool for that matter, is difficult. There are a lot of good resources out there for Delphi developers, but perhaps none better than Martin Harvey’s “Multi-threading: The Delphi Way”. There is a copy of it here — http://thaddy.co.uk/threads/ – but sadly it doesn’t include the graphics and the…
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…