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May 2013
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THMTLWriter and XE4
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– I’m happy to say two things: I’m still alive. I can’t believe that it has been over two months since I posted. I have been working on my book, but it is sure slow going. Writing is hard, as my wife says. THTMLWriter works great with Delphi XE4. I’d be delighted to hear from you ...
March 2013
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Flotsam and Jetsam #81
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– Embarcadero has revealed their plans for AnyDAC – and it is called FireDAC after all. Marco blogged about it and has all the links. Looks like all XE Enterprise developers get it as an upgrade/add-on, and Pro users can buy it for $399. I upgraded this site to BlogEngine.net ...
February 2013
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Want to Help With My Book?
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– As you hopefully know, I’m working on a book. I’m slowly but steadily making progress. I’m at the point where I need some help. I’ve gotten the first few chapters in a state that I feel ready to actually let someone else read them. So if you are feeling generous, want to feel my ...
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Delphi and the Factory Pattern: Factory Methods
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– I’m currently reading “Head First Design Patterns”, and am finding it very useful and educational. One problem, though – it’s all in Java. So I thought that as part of the exercises, I’d translate the code to Delphi. And also as part of my ...
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Fun Code of the Week #7
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– It’s all a big circle. First, I posted a fun little way to handle the cursor in this Fun Code of the Week. The first comment on that post was from my friend Tapper who said “What, no interface?” Then, I post this about hints revealing errors with cursor handling as part of the demo. And from ...
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Even Hints Can Reveal Errors
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– Introduction I hope that you all know that when you do a full build on your Delphi project, you should never allow hints and warnings to remain in your code. Warnings, in particular, are an indication that something is going on that you almost certainly don’t want to be going on. But ...
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Flotsam and Jetsam #80
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– Despite all my slaving over a hot keyboard, bringing you a never ending supply of intellectually stimulating and hopelessly useful content, in the entire history of this website, no one has ever donated to me via PayPal. And there is a reason for that – the stupid donate button doesn’t ...
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Review of the Mobile Preview Webinar
Nick Hodges
– I watched the RAD Studio Mobile Preview Webinar today. Anders O, JT Thomas, Marco, and Sarina DuPont did a very nice job presenting the product, including some pretty cool demos. Here are my thoughts in my ever-present bullet form. Everything here is from notes I took during the ...
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Delphi and the Factory Pattern: Simple Factory
Nick Hodges
– I’m currently reading “Head First Design Patterns”, and am finding it very useful and educational. One problem, though – it’s all in Java. So I thought that as part of the exercises, I’d translate the code to Delphi. And also as part of my ...
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Flotsam and Jetsam #79
Nick Hodges
– Today is Delphi’s 18th Birthday. I'll always wear it as a badge of honor that I was there at the launch at SD ‘95 in the Moscone Center. Quite a privilege. Thanks to everyone who has made Delphi such a great tool to use. I am signed up for the RAD Studio Mobile Preview ...
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Flotsam and Jetsam #77
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– I was thinking about if statements the other day, and came up with this potential Rule of Thumb: “Every time you write an if statement, you should stop and consider whether you should be creating a new class instead.” Thoughts? (Now, I’ve been around long enough to see how this might ...
January 2013
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Delphi and the Decorator Pattern
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– I’m currently reading Head First Design Patterns, and am finding it very useful and educational. One problem, though – it’s all in Java. So I thought that as part of the exercises, I’d translate the code to Delphi. And also as part of my learning process, I thought it would be a ...
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Delphi and the Observer Pattern
Nick Hodges
– I’m currently reading Head First Design Patterns, and am finding it very useful and educational. One problem, though – it’s all in Java. So I thought that as part of the exercises, I’d translate the code to Delphi. And also as part of my learning process, I thought it would be a ...
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Flotsam and Jetsam #76
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– There are a lot of cool things that an IDE could do, but it’s getting to the point where my one top feature for the IDE is the automatic addition of interface methods. If I declare a class that implements a given interface, the IDE should automatically fill those in for me. That would ...
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Flotsam and Jetsam #75
Nick Hodges
– Now here’s a blog after my own heart: LooseCouplings.com Sadly, it hasn’t been updated in a while, and there are only a few articles, but what is there is really good. There are four or five articles about Dependency Injection (particularly about how it doesn’t necessarily mean ...
