About Nick

About Me

I am Nick Hodges and this is my website.  I am a Senior Software Developer at Gateway Ticketing Systems.  We provide world class ticketing systems for the world’s largest amusement parks, zoos, and museums.

Over the years I have been a busboy, a cook, a telemarketer (sorry), a teacher, a Naval Officer, a business owner, a software manager, and a software developer.  However, I’m a software developer at heart.

I’ve been a Pascal/Delphi developer for over twenty five years, and still think that Delphi is the best development tool out there.  I love to read programming books, attend conferences, watch cool videos about new programming techniques, and generally trying to be an industry thought leader (I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether I’ve succeeded or not…..)

I’ve written three books about Delphi in recent years.  I’m very grateful to the many people that have bought them.

General Contact Stuff

• Skype:  NickHodges
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nick.hodges
• Twitter: nickhodges
• LinkedIn: Nick Hodges
• Public Code on BitBucket

Some Stunningly Fascinating Facts About Me

• I am a rabid fan of the Android OS.
• I was born in Baltimore, Maryland
• I have piloted an aircraft (an FA-18 specifically) past the sound barrier, to Mach 1.03
• I have never had a drop of coffee in my life and never intend to.
• I was a Classical Languages major in college and taught high school Latin for two years
• I was a Naval Intelligence Officer for 12 years
• I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
• I was a high jumper at my small college, clearing the modest height of 6’4″.

Some of My Favorite Stuff

Movies:

1. Casablanca
2. On the Waterfront
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Breaker Morant
5. Titanic
6. The Princess Bride
7. The Man From Snowy River
8. The Godfather

Software Utilities

1. Clipmate — Manages your clipboard and never forgets anything you put there.
2. Everything — Incredibly useful file search tool.  Searches only by name, but I find that’s what I want to do most of the time.
3. Evernote — I use this to keep all kinds of stuff — text, mostly, but all kinds of stuff — in ‘the cloud”.

Books

1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
3. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austin
6. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
7. All the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
8. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Albums

1. Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen
2. Making Movies — Dire Straits
3. Songs From Dawson’s Creek
4. Dizzy Up the Girl — Goo Goo Dolls
5. Nothing Left to Lose — Mat Kearney
6. Soul’s Core — Shawn Mullins
7. Learning to Breathe — Switchfoot
8. Daughtry — Daughtry

Television Shows

1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Smallville
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Weeds
6. Sons of Anarchy
7. The Office
8. Veronica Mars
9. Mad Men
10. Lost
11. Dexter
12. Justified