My favorite programming language is Object Pascal. Period. However it is not the only programming language in the world. Probably my very first was Basic on ZX Spectrum, then came Turbo Pascal on DOS and quickly changed to Delphi and Object Pascal. Over the course of the years, I have been influenced by other languages. When joining Borland, I had to got certified with Java. When C#Builder was released .NET was a big thing and it was a great source of inspiration. When CodeGear released 3rdRail ...

Yesterday evening I have found an excellent Delphi book I have been always waiting for! The full title of the book is "Delphi Memory Management for Classic and ARC Compilers"  and it is written by Dalija Prasnikar. The book is available in electronic form as a pdf file only. The topic of memory management is probably the most important in becoming a competent Delphi developer. When you write code, you want to have a proper understanding what is happening under the hood and that is excitin...

Great thanks to all people that attended "Expert Delphi - Part 1" webinars in different time zones. It was a pleasure to give a taste of the first six chapters of the "Expert Delphi" book and walk you through selected demos! During webinars, I have promised to make the replay available. It is already available on YouTube. Video not found or Youtube service not available...

Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released "Expert Delphi", but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at. I have recently bought printed (!) version of "Serverless Architectures on AWS" book by Peter Sbarski. "Serverless" is to me the biggest thing in years on the "server-side". No more thinking in terms of provisioning virtual machines in the cloud. The very ...

My "Expert Delphi" book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10 at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi. The book is about how to become developer super hero and gain amazing productivity powers to develop stunning, native cross-platform mobile apps from the same codebase for Android and iOS! The foreword was written by David Intersimone and I'm very proud about it, because I have the deepest respect to...