[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Marc Hoffman kindly took the time to respond to my previous post and prompted me to re-formulate and expand my observations on Jim McKeeths post (which never made it to the comments thread on the RO blog for reasons best known to The Cloud).
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Perhaps this post should be sub-titled: Say a Lie Often Enough and You’ll Start Believing it Yourself Apparently some product called ERPLY (yeah, me neither) now has a “great new FireMonkey native UI”. FireMonkey ? Native UI ? Unless there has been a radical rewrite of FireMonkey in XE3 and the people behind ERPLY have early access to an unfeasibly stable build of XE3 to have created their product using it, this claim is just errant nonsense.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Like many I suspect, Charles Petzold’s “Programming Windows” was one of the most important books on my shelves for a long time, and it has been a long time since it was updated. With the advent of .NET many perhaps thought a new edition would never come (or indeed be needed). But a 6th Edition is on it’s way, and can be had for an absolute steal under a very creative pricing structure unveiled by O’Reilly.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] I have posted before about new language features introduced in a way that does not adhere to the (admittedly quite notional) “Spirit of Delphi”. It’s time for another one, this time inspired by a post by Paul Klink of the ADUG.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] The release notes for Update #4 have appeared online, signalling the imminent arrival no doubt of the update itself.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] Ms Stob has blessed us with another chapter in the Book of Khan. A great start to 2012. Thank you Ms Stob. 🙂
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Yesterday I posted an observation on Google+, lamenting the lack of a compiler warning when code in an overridden method failed to call any inherited implementation. This simple oversight in an AfterConstruction override in a situation where the observed bug that arose (a memory leak) could just as easily have been the consequence of a more complex error on my part, caused me to spend a significant amount of time, hunting down the wrong bug.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Mat DeLong just posted another great example of when not to abuse class helpers in Delphi (though I should add that he didn’t seem to see it that way). 🙂 But you don’t need helpers to do what this technique achieves, and in my view you really shouldn’t be using helpers for it in the first place.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Simon Stuart recently shared a comment on Google+ about the modern relevance of BASIC. This prompted me to think about BASIC, it’s role in my career and how software development career’s get started today. This post is what came from those thoughts.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] If you are about to install update #1 for Delphi XE2, the first thing you will need to do is uninstall your current version. But beware – the uninstaller doesn’t tell you something quite important.
