This book will make you a faster Delphi developer, it doesn't matter if you are just starting out, or have been using Delphi since version 1, you will find all sorts of tips, tricks and hacks to boost your productivity.
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?
In this Delphi programming tutorial we start with another FishFacts example, this time via Interbase (using the DBX4 Framework) and we look at an alternative way of getting the data from our DataSetProvider. This video is almost 9 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this Delphi Programming tutorial we take a look at how we can use the CloneCursor method to share data between multiple ClientDataSets. This example is based on the classic fish facts application and is a bit over six and a half minutes long. You can watch it here.
In this Delphi Programming tutorial we take a look at using TDataSet.DisableControls to speed up our data processing. The movie is just over 8 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this video we take a look at techniques for migrating applications from the BDE to the DB-Express 4 Framework (DBX4), in particular BlackFishSQL (now obsolete). This video is a bit under 45 minutes long and you can watch it here. This video is a replay of my presentation at CodeRage III on December 2, 2008. The current recommendation is to use FireDAC as the database engine of choice for BDE migrations.
I challenged myself to come up with 100 useful IDE tips and hints, and then explain them all in 45 minutes. Did I succeed? Watch and see. Okay - that was the abstract to my CodeRage III talk. Some of the hints are a bit lame, but others I hope you will find really useful. This video is about 50 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this Delphi Programming video we write a tiny Quote of the Day application using the Quote of the Day service. This video is three and a half minutes long and was recorded at 1024x768 (normally I do 800x600 so they work on YouTube, oops - I can't be bothered doing it again). I was originally going to popup the quote in a balloon hint, however Camtasia 3 did not record the balloon for some reason - I guess I'll leave that as an excersie for the interested. You can watch the video here.
This is a really short introduction into Drag and Drop within Delphi. We look at dragging images between some TImages. We also look at how we can drag and drop between different tabs in a TPageControl. This video is under 4 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this Delphi Programming video we take a look at the OnSetText event available on TFields and how we can use it to make entering dates into data aware controls more friendly to our users. This video is nice and short (under 4 minutes) but I hope still useful. Watch it here.
I'll be presenting at CodeRage III this year (all going well), one of the talks I'll be doing is 100 IDE Hints & Tips. 100 is a big number to keep track of, so here is a little utility to help me keep track of where I'm up to. This video is almost 8 minutes long and it's more of a beginner movie. Watch it here.
In this Delphi training movie we look at how calculated fields work on DataSets. In particular we look at Calculated and InternalCalc types. This movie a bit shy of 8 minutes and you can watch it here.