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Make your Delphi code better by reading this book! You will find numerous tips, tricks, techniques and tools to enhance and improve code. How does your code stack up? Are you writing code that will be usable for years, or are you heading towards a dystopian maintenance apocalypse?

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Movie #35 - DataSnap (Part 1)

In this movie we write our first DataSnap application.  It is a basic two tier (Client/Server) application and yet another rendition of the BioLife example.  This movie is a bit over 8 minutes long and you can watch it here.

Algorithms #3 - Selection Sort

This time we take a look at Selection Sort, yet another badly performing sorting algorthim.  This is my third live action video, however my brother wanted his camera back so I'll probably go back to making Camtasias for awhile.

Algorithms #2 - Insertion Sort

This is my second video on sorting algorithms and this time we are going to look at insertion sort.  Insertion sort is certainly a step up in performance from bubble sort, but it's still pretty poor.  I demonstrate this one using cards again.  It's another short one at three and a quarter minutes.  You can watch it on youtube or...

Algorithms #1 - Bubblesort

This is my first "live action" video.  In this short video we take a look at the bubblesort sorting algorithm. It's one of the worst performing sorting algorithms, but it is also the easiest to explain. We also look at bubblesorts cousin shakersort.

Movie #34 - Parameters

Sometimes the easiest of topics make for the hardest of movies.  In this movie we take a look at the various ways of passing parameters, I've probably not explained things as clearly as I could but I hope it is informative all the same.  Watch it here, it's a bit over eight and a half minutes long.

Movie #33 - Dockable Forms 2

In this Delphi training guide we look further into Form Docking.  In particular we look at the ManualFloat and ManualDock methods to dock and undock forms in code (rather than Drag & Dock). This video is 10 minutes long and you can watch it here.

Movie #32 - Dockable Forms

This movie provides an introduction to using Dockable Forms with Delphi.  It's a short one at only 5 minutes.  In it we create some multi-coloured forms and dock them into a TPageControl and a TPanel.  You can watch it here.

Movie #31 - Making Your Applications Talk

In this video we take a look at the Microsoft Speech API, in particular the text to speech facilities.  And we create a small application that can speak some text in a memo control.  This video is a bit over 7 minutes long and you can watch it here.

Movie #30 - Exceptions in Constructors and Destructors

In this movie we take a look at what happens when constructors and destructors raise exceptions, in particular how to arrange you try..finally blocks to best effect.  This movie is over 16 minutes long and you can watch it here.

Movie #29 - Class Helpers

In this movie we take a look at what Class Helpers are.  There is still a bit of debate as to whether class helpers are good or evil - I think this is because people are using them beyond what they were intended for - which is exactly what we do in this video which you can watch here.