A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
I’m quite happy to announce that I’ll be part of Delphi Developer Days with Cary Jensen this year. I’m honored to be included, as DDD has long been a successful, interesting, and educational event. I’m joining a list of distinguished Delphi speakers who have participated in the past. I’ve been to DDD a number of…
My new book, “Dependency Injection in Delphi” is getting close to being published. It is a deep dive into Dependency Injection and the Spring4D DI Container. It’s going to be about 90 pages long or so, depending on the exact size the book ends up being. I’ll be publishing it first as an eBook, and…
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Okay, no cheating now. That is, no running the code until you’ve guessed. What is the output of this code? program Project90; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R *.res} uses System.SysUtils; var S: TObject; begin try S := nil; if S is TObject then begin Writeln(‘Yup’); end else begin Writeln(‘Nope’); end; except on E: Exception do Writeln(E.ClassName, ‘:…
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I’d like to offer my public and profuse thanks to the Danish Delphi Developers group – and most notably MVP Jens Fudge and his family – for their wonderful hospitality while I was in Denmark presenting at the DAPUG group. I talked for two days and had a great time. They were also kind enough…
Been a while, eh? Obviously the biggest news to cover is the Idera acquisition. By now I’m sure you all are aware that Idera Software has acquired Embarcadero. (It always seems strange to me when a smaller company bys a bigger one, but never mind….) They’ve done an interesting thing. They’ve taken the Embarcadero database…
Want to buy both of my books in electronic form? Well now you can get a deal on it – The Coding in Delphi Bundle. Buy the bundle and save $15! As always, I’m very grateful to the Delphi community for all your support.
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 just got back from attending EKON 19 in Köln, Germany. I had a really good time and learned a lot. In fact, I learned the most in one of the sessions I gave – a three hour workshop on Dependency Injection. Stefan Glienke was there – he maintains and enhances the Spring Framework –…