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April 2013
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Movie #93 - Fish Facts for iOS
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– In this video I write my first iOS application, the classic Fish Facts application - soon to be available in the App Store (or not). We do this with the recently released Delphi XE4. Watch it on YouTube.
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Blog #17 - ADUG 2013 Interviews
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– While I was at the recent Australian Delphi User Group (ADUG) Symposium 2013, I recorded a few interviews with the attendees during the breaks at the Sydney event, watch to find out what people are doing with Delphi in Down Under. Watch it on YouTube, it's 10 minutes long.
March 2013
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Blog #16 - ADUG Symposium 2013
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– The Australian Delphi User Group are holding their Annual Symposium and I'm speaking. It is being held in Melbourne (Thursday) and Sydney (Friday) the 21st and 22nd of March 2013. Here is a brief 30 second snippit of my talk - if you want to see the whole thing then you had better register on the ...
February 2013
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Movie #92 - Renaming Component Events
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– In this video we take a quick look at form inheritance, and why renaming component events can cause you problems. The video is 7 minutes long.
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Movie #91 - Assigning to an Items Property
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– "If you assign a stringlist to a combobox items property using ':=', you still have to free the stringlist." This tweet by Nick Hodges is probably very obvious to any seasoned Delphi developer, however I think it's far from obvious to someone new to Delphi. In this video we take a look why we need ...
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Movie #90 - Code Fonts
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– In this video we take a look at changing the default font for the code editor in the IDE (Courier New), to something better. After a bit of research online I give a few recommendations as to what font to use, watch this video on YouTube to find out. The video is 5 minutes long.
January 2013
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Movie #89 - Implementing Interfaces Shortcuts
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– In this video we take a look at some shortcuts to implementing interfaces on classes in Delphi. Knowing these shortcuts will save you a bunch of typing (and hence improve productivity). I produced this video in a response to a post by Nick Hodges (always a fan of his posts), in it he indicates ...
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Movie #88 - OnCreateItemClass
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– The OnCreateItemClass event was introduced to TListView a few versions of Delphi ago, you've probably never noticed it but it's a big improvement on using the Data property on a TListItem - If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you need to watch my video on OnCreateItemClass here. It is ...
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Movie #87 - Command Line Parameters
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– This video covers how to handle Command Line Parameters in your Delphi applications, with them you can make your applications more flexible giving them some initial state (such as "myprog.exe /SafeMode") or instructing them to perform some actions at start up ("myprog.exe /TakeOverWorld"). This ...
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Blog #14 - New Commercial Video, Marco, Žarko, Camtasia and Delphi map.
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– In this blog post I discuss my new commercial video on Building Data Aware Apps using the VCL, some Delphi personalities, my woes with Camtaisa and how Delphi users are distributed around the world. Watch it on YouTube.
December 2012
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Movie #86 - Getting help with Delphi
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– This is just a quick look at some of the resources available for when you get stuck on a Delphi problem. The video is (as always) available on YouTube. While there is a bit of self promotion in this video, I do cover many of the other commercial resources out there - although I did forget to ...
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Movie #85 - Property Analyser Part 1
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– This video is going to be the first in a series on porting an application from the VCL to FireMonkey. In this first part we take a quick look at the application and get it compiling in Delphi XE3. You can watch it on YouTube. The video is almost thirteen minutes long.
November 2012
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Blog #14 - CodeRage 7 Finished, WellDUG & ClientDataSet video
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– This is my 14th blog post and you can view this 7 minute video on YouTube. In it I cover CodeRage 7, my presentation at WellDUG (the Wellington Delphi User Group) and mention my new commercial video on ClientDataSets (which is part 1 in a series).
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Movie #84 - Video Capture
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– In this video Alister Christie writes a simple FireMonkey application to capture video from the webcam on my laptop. This is a short 5 minute video, as per usual it is available on YouTube.
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Movie #83 - Sorting Dynamic Arrays
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– In this video we take a look at an example from Chris Rolliston's book Delphi XE2 Foundations. We sort a dynamic array, and do so using generics and anonymous methods. The video is about 10 minutes long and you can watch it on YouTube.
