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Level Up Your UI Design Skills You’re short on time, and cash, so where can you go to learn new skills to improve your app UIs? There are a ton of free, or nearly free, on-demand resources if you know where to look.   Enroll in free, or inexpensive, Online Courses: I love taking classes from Coursera. You can access the same college and university classes taught by great schools for free by auditing classes. (I also use Coursera for non-technical courses like literature.) Design Principles by University of Californi...
Delphi/C++Builder: Aktuelle e-Books, Videos und mehr Dr. Veikko Krypczyk: Geräteübergreifende Entwicklung mit RAD Studio In diesem shortcut stellen Ihnen Olena Bochkor und Dr. Veikko Krypczyk die Möglichkeiten der geräte- und plattformübergreifenden Entwicklung mit RAD Studio vor. Dabei werden verschiedene Anwendungsfälle, wie zum Beispiel UI-Erstellung und Cloud-Anbindung, anhand leicht nachzuvollziehender Beispiele erläutert. Amazon / Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07FKL2WX7/ Entwickler.de: https://entwickler.de/pres...
Top 5 Delphi Books Which Can Turn You Into An Object Pascal Rockstar There are five recent Delphi books that can really kick-start your development with Delphi on Android, iOS, Windows 10, and MacOSX. These five books are the Object Pascal Handbook, Coding In Delphi, More Coding In Delphi, Delphi Cookbook Second Edition, and Delphi Programming for Beginners. Some of these books are free and some of them are available from various online stores like Amazon. If you are new to Delphi, just want to brush up on your Object Pascal skills, or you are ready to dive ...
Coding in Delphi / More Coding in Delphi - Book Bundle by Nick Hodges Nich Hodges has announced the "Coding in Delphi/More Coding in Delphi" book bundle. This is a bundle of Coding in Delphi and More Coding in Delphi. Buy both together and you save $15! Additional information is available at https://leanpub.com/b/codingindelphibundle. Both books are fantastic resources for Delphi developers of all ages, shapes, sizes and experience levels. Nick teaches us all how to write better Delphi code in an easy to digest chapters with loads of source code on his BitBucket -...
Delphi VCL and FireMonkey: eBooks, Books, Tutorials and Courseware - a collection of links We are often asked where developers and teachers can find books, courseware and tutorials available today that cover Delphi programming and Multi-Device FireMonkey app development. The great news is that there are more and more books appearing on Amazon, Lulu and online. Here is my latest list of books, courseware and tutorials from book shopping sites and developer sites.   ebooks Mobile Tutorials: Mobile Application Development (iOS and Android) for XE8 - http://docs.embarcadero....

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C++ Books/eBooks that include coverage of ISO C++11 Here are several C++ books/eBooks that cover (or have been updated for) ISO C++11. A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth Series) - Bjarne Stroustrup - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321958314/ The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition - Bjarne Stroustrup - http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-4th/dp/0321563840 C++ Primer (5th Edition) - Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321714113/ Presentation Materials: Overview of the New C++ (C++11/14) - Scott Mey...
C++ language news, articles, happenings, the standard and more... The ISO C++ standard continues to move forward to match the demands of C++ applications and systems. The ISO C++ committee continues its work on the 2014 language minor update and the march to 2017's major update. The C++ 2014 CD ("committee draft") has been released. The current ISO C++ status can be found at http://isocpp.org/std/status. You can download the October 10, 2013 working draft C++ programming language standard at http://isocpp.org/files/papers/N3797.pdf. Below you will find a few r...

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Recent cool Delphi and C++Builder blog posts.... While it might be a hot summer where you live, in the southern hemisphere it is opposite season.  For those developers who are sweating it out in the north, here are some recent cool Embarcadero Technologies developer tools blog postings from our community members. TMS FireMonkey cross-platform grid - http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=230 Using And Understanding The TDictionary (Hash Table) Class In Delphi - http://delphi.about.com/b/2012/07/13/using-and-understanding-the-tdict...

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Want more...Creativity I've always thought that software design and programming is a very creative process.  Developers create something from nothing using their mind, hands, hardware, and development tools.  I love that we can create software anywhere.  I can be sitting at my notebook computer on the beach, in a coffee shop, at home, at work, in an airport, on an airplane.  One of these days it would be cool to work on programs while riding a bike, skydiving, surfing, and scuba diving (talk your about extreme program...

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Want more...Mountains "Ain't no mountain high enough. Ain't no valley low enough. Ain't no river wide enough. To keep me from getting to you." The lyrics, from the song written by Ashford and Simpson, keep telling me that there is nothing that can stop advance of computer software, developer tools, and operating platforms. "Climb Every Mountain", the song in the movie, The Sound of Music, tell us to keep going, search everywhere, follow every path, cross every Geoffrey Moore chasm, try every idea, until we find ou...

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