Nick Hodges

Camtasia #15 - Inheritance  is up.  Here’s the ZIP.  This one shows the basics of object inheritance, including overriding a virtual method.
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The Delphi Hour #8 is archived and can be read/listened to/downloaded here.
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I’m catching up — two of them today #13 - Procedure and Functions - ZIP – covers the basics of functions and procedures#14 - Units - ZIP - covers the structure of a unit and how to use units in an application
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This guy wants to know which is better:  C# or VB.NET.  I think we can provide an alternative choice, can’t we? 
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The Delphi Hour this week will be at the “AsiaPac” time — that is, 5:00pm PDT.   I haven’t lined up a guest yet, but we’ll have something to talk about, that is for sure.
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Camtasis #12 - Simple Class is up. It covers the creation of a basic class in Delphi.  Here is the ZIP file.
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Camtasia #11 - Basic Data is up. Here’s the ZIP.  In this one, I build the classic Biolife demo to show how pathetically easy it is to access data in Delphi. Yes, I know I used a TTable.  But this is the basics, and you can’t get any more basic than TTable, eh? 
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Camtasia #10 - Records is posted. Here’s the ZIP.  Simple and short coverage of records and why you’d want to use them. I appreciate the comments about corrections and the additional information.  Just a friendly reminder — the target here is the absolute beginner.  Sometimes it is hard to keep that in mind and I use phrases like […]

Some one sent me this email: IBM Seems to be making money on Linux, why not DevCo?   http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192201309 Interesting question, I guess.  I think the main reasons are that we aren’t an operating systems, services, and hardware company.  That’s where IBM makes money.  We are a developer tools company.  I’d love to make money […]

Buy a shirt from Dave Clegg.  Very cool image on the front. Good interview by Guy Kawasaki with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL.  MySQL is an interesting company - they sell an open source product.  That’s an interesting business.  (Zack Urlocker, former Delphi Product Manager, also works there). Here’s the quote I liked — "At […]

Camtasia #9 - Arrays is up.  The ZIP file is up as well.
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Eric Sink is a really smart guy and has a cool company SourceGear with some great tools for developers like Vault and Dragnet.  He’s written a really good book (actually, it’s a collection of his essays) on the business of software.  Erik is a “micro-ISV” (although I note he seems to be doing a lot of […]

Two links from Mike Gunderloy today. First up — an article on the ridiculousness of the "Web 3.0" moniker. I mean, yeah, it’s ridiculous, but I have to admire the pure genius of it.  Spreads FUD and gets a higher number out there, all in one fell swoop.  Genius.  Evil genius, yes, but genius […]

Camtasia #8 - Sets  is up. I cover the basics of using sets in Delphi.  The ZIP file is here.
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Sorry this is late — The Delphi Hour will be at 12:00 PDT today.  Our scheduled guest is Jason Vokes of the DTG in EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa).  I’ll see if I can convince Jason to give something away.
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I gave out some bad information in Camtasia #7: The Real type maps to Double.  Real48 is the type that corresponds to the old TP Real The Cardinal type ranges from 0..4294967295 Int64 and Comp range from -2^63..2^63-1 Integer ranges from -2147483648..2147483647 I profess to spouting old, addled information.  The above items have changed […]

Camtasia #7 - Basic Datatypes is up. The ZIP file is here. I discuss the various integer types, floating point types, enumerated types, and sub-range types. 
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#Camtasia 6 — Basic String Manipulation  is up.  The ZIP file is here.  This covers the absolute basics of string handling and manipulation.
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Snagged this off the cable TV..
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Camtasia #5 — More Lanugage Intro is out.  The ZIP file is here, too. This one covers the case statement, as well as while…do and repeat…until.
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Daniel Wischnewski links to a really cool video by Daniel R. Wolf that runs through some fun stuff about Turbo Delphi.  I especially liked the old film footage of Turbo Pascal 6.0.  The coolest part that an application written in about 1983 in Turbo Pascal will still compile and run in Turbo Delphi with […]

Camtasia #4 - Language Introduction is up.  The ZIP file is as well.  This one is a real  basic introduction to the Delphi Language.  Nothing fancy here.
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Okay — Camtasia #3 is up. It covers basic application development.  While I’m doing these, I’m trying hard to remember that the target audience is new users.  Most of the first thirty will be targeted that way.  Afterwards, I’ll be doing more on topics for current customers, but for right now, I’m trying to remember […]

The Delphi Hour #6 replay is online.
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Okay, here’s “Camtasia Demo #2  — Hello World“ for the Thirty Camtasia’s in Thirty Days campaign.  It covers a bunch of different ways to create “Hello World” applications in Turbo Delphi.  I appreciate all the feedback from yesterday’s entry. I’m sorry you all had trouble.  I appreciate you sticking around as we work out the Camtasia […]

Okay, I got John Kaster, our resident Camtasia expert, to export the first Camtasia demo. So, if you haven’t run out of patience with all of this, and you were having trouble previously, please give this another try. (Note:  The URL has changed slightly.)
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Ray Konopka this week. Ray is the producer of Raize Components and CodeSite. Ray is a long time Turbo Pascal/Delphi user, member of the community, Borcon Advisory Board member, conference speaker, and an all-around good guy. He’ll also be giving away a copy of the soon to be released CodeSite 4.  
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First, thanks for all the feedback. I’m sorry that you all are having trouble with this. Okay, take three on this.   For those of you who hear the sound, but don’t see the video, I think this is what is happening:  the audio starts and the video starts downloading.  Then, when the video is done […]

I redid the Camtasia with some different settings.  Hopefully you all can see it now.  If not, I’ll have to research further.  It’s a simple Flash presentation.  I don’t know what verion of Flash upon which it is dependent.  Added: This is from Ismail Esmail:  For me, it was Internet Explorer’s new security behaviour. […]

Okay — here’s the first Camtasia:  Intro to the IDE.  I’ll be compiling the demos here on this page, so you can keep track of them there if you want.
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