Sunday, August 12, 2018

Delphi Book Collection

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One week after I wrote about Warren Buffet's 25-5 rule I created my own "Top 5" list. However, this time I put a little twist...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Don't Just Code in Delphi, Think in Delphi

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I have always struggled with fully understanding the object oriented nature of Delphi. I still struggle with it today. For example, I have t...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

What do you, me, Warren Buffet, and his pilot have in common?

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Success. Each one of us; you, me, Buffett, his pilot all want success. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we each hunger for success. So, wha...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Embarcadero Discontinues the Sale of Upgrade Products

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I received an email today informing me that as of April 1, 2018 Embarcadero will discontinue the sale of upgrade products for Rad Studio, De...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Playing With Fire(Monkey)

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If you are like me and have been apprehensive about using FireMonkey let me offer you a renewed sense of hope. It's unfortunate that thi...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

I've Been Telling the Wrong Product Stories

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This post has nothing to do with Delphi other than it's the software development tool I use. In November of last year I finally purchase...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

The Lazarus Effect

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I haven't been focused on much software development lately, I've been working on some marketing material which I hope to have comple...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Why My Next Software Product Will Be Windows VCL Only

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I started this blog back in 2009 as I slowly emerged from a severe case of burn-out. From that first day I've been consistently saying I...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Error: Cannot Restore Form State--No TRzRegIniFile Component Specified

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It's been a while since I fired up Delphi, about three months. And you know, it's true what they say " If you don't use it ...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Program to an Interface and not an Implementation

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I have been struggling with trying to understand what it means to "Program to an interface and not an implementation." Nick Hodges...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Gunny Meets Uncle Bob - Part 1

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The last few days have been very interesting. It started when my friend Jon Aasenden posted a link to a you tube video called " SOLID ...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Google, Mobile, and You. Are You Good?

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I put my Delphi development on hold a few months ago so I could work on creating a responsive website for my software. The hardest part for ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

EMBT Webinar: Overcoming Monetization Challenges Using Licensing

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Embarcadero Technologies is teaming up with the Association of Software Professionals to bring you Jessica Dewell of Red Direction. Calli...
Friday, August 12, 2016

How to use the SET LOG MESSAGE Feature Within ElevateDB

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The more I use ElevateDB the more impressed I get with this product. Last week I visited the ElevateDB support forum, most likely related to...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

A Better Way to Present and Organize Error Messages in Your Delphi Applications

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I'm in the process of totally redesigning an application I wrote 25 years ago. Today, I decided to look for a better way to present erro...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Real World Justification for Purchasing Component Source Code

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I'm working on a database project using Delphi 10S Update 1. The database I'm using is ElevateDB , which is written with Delphi. I ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Poll: What type of Delphi shop are you?

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Back in November I conducted a poll to find out what kind of Delphi shop people belonged to. From these results 70% of the Delphi shops have...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

A few minor "out of the box" tweaks for Delphi 10 Seattle

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I recently upgraded to Delphi 10 Seattle Update 1. The first thing I noticed when I fired up the IDE was the font size of the Object Inspect...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Create Professional Installs for Mac OS X

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I'm just getting started with learning cross-application development. One of the many issues that's crossed my mind has been how do ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

FireMonkey Under the Hood: How FireMonkey Does What It Does

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Here are two great videos from ITDevCon 2012 by Ray Konopka that talk about how FireMonkey does what it does. Ray gives an overview of the h...