There are quite a few Delphi open source projects on GitHub that can really save you some time. I searched for Delphi on GitHub and then sorted by the Most Starred projects and came up with this Top 10 list. There is some really good stuff here including Awesome Delphi (which is another top list), Delphi IDE color theming projects, an MVC web framework, a REST API client, Open Source Computer Vision Library headers for Delphi, a really powerful custom TreeView component, a unit testing fram...

In my last post, "'Model' Is an Overloaded Word," I discussed several types of models which might be present in an MVC application. But I limited the discussion to models which are actually in the executable.  There may of course be additional models, such as ERDs, UML models, etc., which exist in the development environment, but are not actually part of the executable. It is often the case that we use software tools to transform these conceptual models into executable code of one form or ano...

Let's say you're writing a web application, and using the Model View Controller design.  Maybe you're using an out-of-the-box framework like the ASP.NET MVC Framework or Rails, or maybe you're using a different implementation; it doesn't matter.  It's pretty obvious that the "View" portion of the design is the part which provides a template for rendered HTML, and that the "Controller" portion of the design is the part which handles requests, specifying the general outline for what should be retu...