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Last autumn, as I was finishing up my chapters for the 2016 Delphi Developer Days course book, which I wrote with Nick Hodges, Director of Engineering at Embarcadero Technologies, I received a question about FireDAC… … Read more
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The TIOBE index shows: Top 4 languages are going down (Java, C, C++, C#) Delphi is now significantly more than 50% the size of Microsoft C# JavaScript and Delphi are keeping their share R is… … Read more
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Delphi Developer Days 2016 with Nick Hodges and me, Cary Jensen, is just around the corner (we start in Chicago a week from today). And, the Delphi Developer Days book has been printed, which for… … Read more
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Let’s start with a little history lesson. When Delphi first shipped it had one data access framework, the Borland Database Engine (BDE). While the BDE was a breakthrough product in its early years, providing a… … Read more
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As IT becomes a bigger part of everyone’s business, so does system architecture and QA. Whenever we see a big IT project that fails, the cause of the failure often comes from having management that… … Read more
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The agenda and course topics for this year’s Delphi Developer Days with Nick Hodges and me, Cary Jensen, has been released, and we think that you will be pleased with the selection of topics. Over… … Read more
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It is my great pleasure to announce that Nick Hodges will be joining me for this year’s Delphi Developer Days tour, which will visit the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia late this autumn. Delphi Developer… … Read more
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The annual spring Delphi seminar known as Delphi Developer Days has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.Loy Anderson (the DDD event manager), Bob (Dr.Bob) Swart, and I have been working to put together… … Read more
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I do not care much about products or constructions from the past, that cannot be reproduced or used, but in this case, my brother’s old construction from the late 1970s made me look again, because… … Read more
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I announced in my last blog post that an updated version of Delphi in Depth: ClientDataSets is now available, both in printed and in eBook formats. In response, a reader posted this question as a… … Read more
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I published the original Delphi in Depth: ClientDataSets book back in March of 2011. At the time I believe it was my 24th book on computer software, though I must admit that I’ve lost count…. … Read more
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We all know about test-driven development. How many actually do this? Well, medical device software is made this way. Maybe the tests are not automated, but developers are required to establish verifiable requirements before starting… … Read more
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Ray Konopka and I worked over the holidays to prepare the agenda for Delphi Developer Days 2015, and I am very happy with the content we have planned for this year’s tour.As usual, we have created… … Read more
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In case you missed the official press release on Tuesday, let me be the first to share with you that Ray Konopka is going to join me in presenting this year’s Delphi Developer Days 2015… … Read more
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