Here’s a Camtasia demo of a few things in the VCL that you might not know about or have taken a look at before. Those things are: VCL Guidelines and Margins – makes laying out your forms ten times easier The Margin and AlignWithMargins properties — allow to provide proper spacing between your controls The […]
A little late in coming, but here it is: http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s30110.htm In addition, please spread the word to Delphi developers everywhere. We want as much feedback from all around the world as we can get. I plan on getting it translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Portugese, and Chinese, so stay tuned if one of those languages […]
Another great article called "The Iron Stool" by Jeff Atwood, and on a topic near and dear to my heart these days. I talk a lot about quality when I’m on the road and visiting with customers. I consider the quality of the product to be the #1 feature going forward. When I talk about "quality", I’m […]
Looks like a cool collection of articles about Delphi at DevArticles.com.
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I’ve had some interesting discussions over the years on the age old adage “The customer is always right.”. Here’s an interesting take on the topic.
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I’m a huge FinalBuilder fan. I think it may very well be one of my favorite pieces of software out there. It’s incredibly useful, hopelessly easy to use, and very powerful. Plus, it’s written in Delphi and is a clear example that Delphi can be used to build “real” applications and not just database desktop […]
I’m sorry — no Delphi Hour today. We’ll get one in next week for sure.
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One of the reasons that you should upgrade to BDS2006 or buy a copy of Turbo Delphi Professional is that you get along with it a free copy of the Borland Edition of CodeHealer. CodeHealer examines your code and helps you find problem areas, provides statistics on your code and gives you a general, overall […]
As I’ve mentioned before, we have a lot of cool partners. I’ve been perusing the list, and the stuff that our partners are producing, and there is a lot of amazing stuff out there. Here’s one that caught my eye: ESB Professional Computation Suite for VCL ESBPCS is a huge collection of routines and components […]
If you are going to install the latest version of Internet Explorer, Version 7, and you are running BDS2005 or BDS2006, you’ll want to read this blog post from Steve Trefethen. You’ll need to just run a simple *.reg file to update the registry so that you won’t get a few errors that IE7 would […]
Hey, this is really cool! The guys over at 3DBuzz have put together a bunch of videos on Turbo Delphi geared towards beginners. Very nice stuff. To view them, you have to register on their site, but it’s a really simple registration (email only, really). Go to the site and look for “The Developer’s Corner” […]
A couple of days ago, I mentioned that Julian Bucknall, longtime Delphi writer and currently the CTO at DevExpress, had published his book, The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures, on lulu.com. Lulu.com is a Publish-on-Demand company that lets you publish anything you want for an initial investment of, well, nothing but the time […]
I’m having a very strange type with the Skype Chat client — if I hit the ’s’ key, it adds both the key and a Return, making things look like this: It’s really s illy what s kype is doing. Very strange. Am I the only one?
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There will be a Delphi Hour today at 1700 PST. Sorry for the late announcement.
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There was some confusion in the newsgroups on this topic, and some other folks I know expressed a, well, limited knowledge about how namespaces work in Delphi for .NET. So I wrote an article about it. In addition, Rudy Velthuis of TeamB wrote an article entitled “Delphi for .NET namespaces misunderstood?” In sum, Delphi for […]
There appears to be a lot of questions out there about namespaces in Delphi for .NET. People have been getting confused and appear to believe certain things that aren’t true about how they work. A lot of that is probably because how they work changed quite a bit between Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005. In […]
This guy is asking for a “little Delphi handholding” — I know you all can help him out.
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There are a lot of really great tools out there for Delphi. I’m going to try to highlight more of them in the coming weeks, because I think that many of you don’t always know what is out there. For instance, you might be interested in a really cool product from one of our Borland […]
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.399432 As always, feel free to go on over and post what you think.
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Great post by Eric Gunnerson. I’m still not as down on inheritance as everyone seems to be, but for the most part, I’m in complete agreement with him. (BTW, you need to click on the links at the top one by one, working your way down the list. The link I provided is the last […]
Here’s some heads up. I’ll be doing and AsiaPac Delphi Hour next Wednesday the 11th, but I’ll be in Brazil on the 18th, so I’ll come back again on the 25th.
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Okay, so how about something different — Why you should upgrade to D2006 from your version of D7 and earlier. Quality – Delphi 2006 is a high quality tool. The quality continues to improve as we release hot-fixes for the product. We heard you on this issue and responded with a good solid product that […]
There’s been a big discussion lately about namespaces in the newsgroups, and TeamB’er Rudy Velthuis has a great post that summarizes things very nicely. Bottom line: What you’ve “heard” about Delphi and namespaces probably isn’t true, and Delphi’s .Net namespace handling has some nice features that work well. Why do I like the way that Delphi […]
Okay — quite the feedback. I’m holding in my hot little hands a forty page printout of your feedback. I’ve got it, and we are going through it. Now here is the hard part. I’m going to take the comments on this post off-line. I know that you won’t like that, but I thought that things […]
Julian Bucknall has made his outstanding book, The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures, available on lulu.com. This is great news, first because Julian’s book has been out of print, and second, because it will be a great opportunity to show the power of true on-demand publishing. Here are some things that I hope […]
I’ll be doing a “European Delphi Hour tomorrow at 1200 PDT. That is, according to my fancy clock converter, 1900 GMT/UTC. I think this link might help with the time as well. For more info on how to get connected, see the EventCentral entry.
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