Michael Riley
Stop your busy life for just three-and-a-half minutes. Watch this video. Answer this question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” in the comments. How I use my “Like Buckets” When I… … Read more
4 years ago in life-hack0
Michael Riley
I finally purchased Camtasia a couple weeks ago so I could create videos in support the upgrade I’m doing of my Zilch Standard software. This is just an interim upgrade that I’m doing using an… … Read more
4 years ago in software0
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… … Read more
4 years ago 0
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… … Read more
4 years ago 0
Michael Riley
This weekend I had a bunch of data inside a FireDAC FDMemtable and I wanted to play around with that data in Excel. So, the first thing I did was review which data formats Excel… … Read more
4 years ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of upgrading a very old Delphi program that I wrote with my Turbo Pascal, top-down, structured-programming, mindset. One of the major updates I want is for the data to be in… … Read more
4 years ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I was watching an excellent video on how to use the batch move capabilities within Delphi to import text data into a database and had one of those “What the heck just happened” moments. The… … Read more
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’ve been exploring SQLite within Delphi. There are several sample SQLite applications that come with Delphi if you selected to install the samples during setup. I’ve put together the list of SQLite samples that are… … Read more
4 years ago in SQLite0
Michael Riley
I’m creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: Album, Test, and World. So I added a TComboBox and populated the… … Read more
4 years ago in Source Code, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I am not a full-time Delphi guy. So, when I’m learning Delphi by reading OPC (other people’s code) I want to make the best of my time. I was studying some code from Cary Jensen… … Read more
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I have been creating database applications for over 30 years. Unfortunately, I have never been able to create a single database application in Delphi. That’s a very sad fact. One that I’m not very proud… … Read more
4 years ago in database-application, delphi-revisited, delphi25th0
Michael Riley
I’ve been in a rut for about the past six months. Not just a Delphi programming rut but a “life rut”. What’s worse, I knew I was in a rut and thought I was trying… … Read more
4 years ago in fmxexpress, github, kanban0
Michael Riley
I’m working on updating my old flagship product and I ran into an issue where a file kept getting deleted on startup. I could not for the life of me figure out where this was… … Read more
5 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
It’s been over 7 years since I dove into the mystical world of rounding numbers within Delphi. It’s amazing how much code actually gets written in support of the main stuff an application does. I… … Read more
5 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
That little switch from saying “I don’t have time”, to saying “It’s not a priority” is a HUGE game changer. I learned about this from a co-worker last week. She didn’t invent it… she heard… … Read more
5 years ago in smarter-not-harder0