tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18022002727895270872012-01-27T11:11:55.522-08:00A simple blog where I hope to keep track of a few of things I've learned [and those that I learn] while I work on becoming an hobbyist/Occupational Developer with Delphi for Object Pascal by CodeGear.TDelphiHobbyisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988423327342669888noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802200272789527087.post-82622552768865170852012-01-25T08:55:00.000-08:002012-01-26T23:17:59.661-08:00

The Latin name Aurelius means Golden.  Has TMS Software created the “Golden” Object Relational Mapping [ORM] Framework?  Like any tool, it depends on your perspective and needs ... and for me, it sure looks like they have.  Let me explain ... I’m pretty sure that I’ve kissed every frog that exists in the land of Delphi ORM/OPF and it’s only now, that I think I’ve finally found the prince[ss].

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... or so it would seem.  Discontinued with the release of D2 but still haunting unit uses clauses everywhere. I just recently tracked down and fixed an error in a module that was compiling fine but causing the Code Completion and Code Parameters IDE features to fail once it had.  I tracked the problem down to a reference to the “WinProcs” unit in the uses clause of a utility unit/file I was

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I have a requirement for several simple database centric look-up tables in one of my projects.  They are no more complex than name-value pairs [EA-Each, CT-Carton, ... ] that get stored in the database and are fully editable by the users.  I needed to find a way around the tiOPF [the OPF of choice] default of using GUID OID values for any object you plan to persist because,  to my mind, there is

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I updated my Wubi Ubuntu 10.04 install a couple of days ago ... and it broke.  That was really annoying. It was also, from my perspective, a bit of a kick in the bum for Ubuntu WUBI.  It breaks kinda easy it seems, and from the number of posts I’ve read, it’s not the first time.  Over the last couple of days I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trolling newsgroups trying to find a fix that

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The decorator pattern, as defined in the book, with one glaring exception, is pretty easy to get a handle on and really isn’t going to take a lot of work from me in way of text here. The Decorator Pattern ... is a design pattern that allows new/additional behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically. -- Wikipedia The Decorator Pattern attaches additional responsibilities

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As mentioned in the previous article The Observer Design Pattern in Delphi – Push I intended to do a “Pull” article to show, what I think is, a significant “feature” of this pattern and one that I thought was underplayed in the Head First Design Patterns book that I’m learning from. I wrote code for this article a couple of times and in the end simply refactored the code from the previous

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Hot News ... jamiei, a Delphi Developer, Web Developer and General Geek, has come forward and provided the community with irrefutable proof  [it’s on the internet, it must be true] clearly dispelling all rumoured answers to the questions, is Delphi Dead or even is Delphi Dying ? [Simply click ether link and the truth will be revealed] Read the full story here on his Time to bury

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A summary and [my rendition of] the Delphi code taken from the second chapter of the book, Head First Design Patterns from O’Reilly. As I mentioned in the first post in this series, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly.   As part of this learning process I’m working through the existing examples written in Java and recreating them in Delphi.  This

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A summary and [my rendition of] the Delphi code taken from the first chapter of the book, Head First Design Patterns from O’Reilly. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly.   As part of this learning process I’m working through the existing examples written in Java and recreating them in Delphi.  This is the second

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m studying Design Patterns using the Head First Design Patterns book from O’Reilly.   As part of this learning process I’m working through the existing examples written in Java and recreating them in Delphi.  This is the first of many posts, hopefully, that are the result of that learning process. This first post in the series is simply a list of known [ones I

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Wow!  I can’t believe that I haven’t posted anything in more than two months – where did the time go?  It’s not like I don’t have fodder for new posts, the news items are many and varied over the last couple of months and that’s the stuff happening outside my world.  I won’t bother even touching any of that though,  it’s all been more than adequately covered buy the bloggers you can track over at

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The other day I listened to Episode 2 - Nick Hodges, a "podcast" from Delphi.org by Jim McKeeth. One of the event sponsors was Gurock Software who donated a copy of their product Smart Inspect 3, a tracing and debugging application, "... going to one lucky listener". Well, sort of, bit of a trick to pick a lucky listener of a podcast, wouldn't you think? Guess it's one of those "honour bar" sort

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I seldom pass up a chance to read the Random Thoughts posts by Nick Hodges whenever they happen to pop up on Delphi Feeds. Random Thoughts on Passing Scene No. 77 was a beauty! In there is an innocuous looking link to an eWeek article "Nice article on Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 in eWeek" ... don't pass up on following through to the article. It's an article [according to Michael Swindell

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C'mon take a little break from all that Tiburon chatter and [possibly] learn something totally irrelevant, unquestionably frivolous and undeniably trivial. Most people are aware of X-Face, a black-and-white 48x48 image, compressed into readable text and sent along with the headers of an e-mail message or a Usenet post. The utility I've been using for this is WinFace. You could also use the

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Embarcadero Technologies Closes Acquisition of CodeGear Embarcadero Technologies is the new owner of CodeGear. No fireworks, no fanfare, at least nothing I've been invited to, just business as usual. There are, on the other hand, a lot of customers and employees expecting to see new and exciting things happen to their IDE of choice. Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say "psyched,

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I was fiddling with a code template I'd written [or more likely, "borrowed" from somewhere] which I've been using for completing Read-Write and Read-Only properties. Originally it was set up with two points ... one for the property variable ["ident"] and one for it's type ["type"]. When setting the "ident" variable point, the template was automatically filling in the Getter and Setter following

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Back from a extremely busy [which fortunately, has the advantageous effect of making it seemingly short] 28 day stint at sea, I was pleased to see that my copy of Essential Pascal by Marco Cantù had arrived. In the fog of work, which had virtually hidden the real world from memory, I had actually forgotten all about having ordered it. Although I had downloaded, printed and read one of the

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Marco Cantù has announced that his online book Essential Pascal is available in its 4th edition. This time though, is the first publication on paper [here] on Lulu.com You can also buy the electronic version (a PDF) at the same place if you want to lug a laptop around to read it. Get the book. From Marco's blog: The book has 140 pages and is focused on the core Pascal language (

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If you are using Delphi 2006 [Turbos excluded] or Delphi 2007 and haven't seen/used Delphi-PRAXiS Help-Booster by Daniel R. Wolf, you're missing out on the fastest access to the Delphi help files there is. From the Help-Booster page: Anyone who ever worked with the Help-System of Delphi 2006/2007 will know that it is terribly slow. This is caused significantly by the internals of the new

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Don't miss Nick's Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #58 where he mentions that the February Help Update for CodeGear Developer Studio 2007 and Delphi 2007 for Win32 has been released. If you're looking for a bit of information on the installation process Dr. Bob has already posted  Help Update 2 for RAD Studio 2007 (Feb08) on his blog which contains some information you will want to read.

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Persistence of Win32 Objects, specifically in trivial desktop applications, has been a bit of a pet project for me. As the question does come up from time to time in the News Groups, I thought I'd put together a page where anyone interested can find links to the ones that are out there. There is another reason ... I'm hoping to get through at least a couple of them and try them out. The results

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For those of you not quite in the loop, Liz Riley [aka Liz The Brit] has been running Code Challenges for Delphi enthusiasts over on Delphi General - 3D Buzz for quite some time now.  Today she has summarized the challenges to-date in a single post Delphi Challenges - Summary Post on 3D Buzz . For those who have been participating this will make finding the ones you missed much easier. For the

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I was reading How I became a Delphi developer on "Thoughts and other things..." a blog by Andreas Hausladen. In his blog post Andy explains that it was something he found interesting in a Delphi Handbook that hooked him on Delphi. It's really quite similar to the events that got me interested in computers and programming and it's a story you hear quite frequently. A comment to Andy by Gerald goes

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The waiting is finally over! Marco released the long awaited Delphi 2007 Handbook on Lulu today. Needless to say I ordered my copy before letting you know :)  ... relax there are enough for every-one. Lulu is print on demand. This release has additional benefits for me. I've had the Delphi for Win32 VCL Database Development book by the renown Dr. Bob [aka Bob Swart] sitting in my Lulu shopping

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Many years ago I was a Sokoban fanatic. For one reason or another I stopped using it and it never seemed to get installed on newer machines. Left, long forgotten in binary limbo, on some hard-drive that is long in the scrap heap, I haven't even thought of it in years. I probably still have it on disk somewhere but there a couple of hundred of them sitting in a desk drawer/box. A couple of days

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Didja Know ... there's an really easy way to find out what the Category string is for the Category you want to install your Wizard/Expert components in.  You can do this without spending a couple of hours thumping your head against the monitor while trying to figure out what the hieroglyphic like constants [below] in the ToolsAPI.pas actually mean.  Hang on a sec ... would you mind passing that

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With the recent additions by Dr. Bob the list of Delphi books on Lulu.com is really starting to grow.  Although only about a dozen titles at the moment, I'm sure - or at least hope, that a number of additional titles are being worked on and will be added soon.  One specific title that I'm anxiously waiting to have a look at is the Delphi 2007 Handbook by Marco Cantù. This growth of available

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Didja-Know ... there is a command line switch built into the IDE that will allow you to switch the registry root that the IDE uses when loading. Yea, a completely different configuration from a short-cut you create that uses the "-r" command-line switch. Someone mentioned it in a NG post recently and I thought it was pretty cool ... certainly worth keeping at hand but I went looking for it [to

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Removed by author ... wasn't as much of a message as I had thought at the time.A buddy of mine has a saying ... "Plan your work ... work your plan!". I think I'll try implementing it. Thanks for stopping by,

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... arrived today and, other than having to pay an additional $14 in duty to appease the bloody tax man at the door, I'm pretty excited about it. I've been digging around at various magazine and DUG sites, and have found some real information gems recently. I have been meaning to blog about it, it just hasn't happened ... yet. I've been specifically looking for old Win32 articles, you know before

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Code folding is a very cool feature that helps to keep your workspace clean and your code targets easy to find. I have yet to put it to any significant use -but- now that I've played with the short-cut keys a bit, I expect it will be something I use a lot. Using the Default mappings, the key combination of code folding is based on Ctrl-Shift-K + ? where the final key is A, C, E, G, M, N, O, P, R

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Back from yet another mind numbing stint in dry-dock, I was reading The Delphi Disciple: Business Case for upgrading Delphi this afternoon and got to thinking about Delphi, the enhancements that have materialized in the newest IDE [D2007Win32], the continuous barrage of requests CodeGear seem to get on enhancing the OOTB tool-set and the wealth of 3rd party vendors that already have products in

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... that seemingly sweet little "special edition" bundle that you can download as an owner of Delphi 2007 has a couple of, what I would consider to be, "issues".  I'm not in any manner saying that it doesn't deliver on "as advertised" features.  What I am saying though, is that there are a couple of significant [to me] issues that will prevent me from using the product in its current

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is ready and on the street. The latest and greatest Windows Live Writer [Beta 2] is a huge improvement on its predecessor which itself was a huge improvement on anything I had used to date. You can get the details at the Live Writer Blog. Even if you haven't been using it, give it a try. -- Dave

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I'm always on the lookout for simplified project documentation [and/or templates]. I'm a big believer in ... "anything that will make my life simpler, just has to be good". I ran across this site StartUpCTO hosted by David Ordal. I've had a pretty good look [at least I think I have] for other, similar material, and there isn't a lot out there, at least not like this stuff. Have a squint and see

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Continuing on with the challenges of dropping the mouse in favor of just the keyboard. This is the second and final installment of using the navigation keys, with the assistance of the Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys to give that added little boost, when you need to move around in your code. So far we've cover the basic navigation keys alone, in combination with Ctrl, with Shift and with Ctrl-Shift.

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Doh! ... I did. I was doing some research for the next article [as promised] watching the "Video of Delphi Code completion and code browsing features ..." by Steve Trefethen when I ran across a gem that I'd completely forgotten about ... "Sync Edit Params". Being a secret feature [still, I dug down into the D2007 registry settings to have a squint] it's one you don't want to forget to set. If

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It seems I've already fallen a bit short of my hopes of posting once a week. No matter, I'm back from a some-what unexpected on-duty cycle where things were more than the usual "a little nuts" and I'm hoping to be be back on track with the blog in a couple of days. In the mean time ... for those of you that are bloggers yourself [and don't follow Bug Bash] I thought you might find a chuckle in

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Hi, my name is Dave, I'm certifiably … a mouser. As a matter of a fact, I've intentionally ignored keyboard short-cuts since I upgraded from DOS to [it’s only a passing fad] Windows 3.0 and I just can’t justify having made that decision - at all. Yea, I know, what a horribly inefficient way to get anything done -but- I’m on the road to recovery and plan on dragging you with me, if you’re

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... there may just be a little more to them, than what initially meets the eye. Now it might be common knowledge to you guys -but- I was doing a little research on an article [learning actually] on using the keyboard and forgetting about the mouse when I came across one of those “Wow, that is seriously cool!” features that I just love to find. Ctrl-Shift-Up is a powerful [and pretty clever]

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... trolling the newsgroups and blogs is a great way to come up with your own ready to serve tutorials. Yes, I am stretching any known definition of the term tutorial to the extremes here but close enough will just have to be good enough. In my seemingly endless sojourn to become apt [oh, alright ... adequate] at using Delphi for Object Pascal, I learn a terrific amount from reading newsgroups

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Don't use comedic titles on your posts while you're waiting to come up with something relevant. My last blog article was comment about the size of the .Net installation required for Delphi 2007. I put "Why you great fat cow ..." in as a temporary title. While I was thinking, editing and rewriting parts of it I sort of lost track of that fact and hit publish. Coming home after picking up the

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If you haven't installed it yet and yours is a .Net Free machine, the size of the support structure for Delphi 2007 may come as, well .... a bit of a surprise. Are you "one of them" ... as I once was, who swears "all that .Not crap will never find its way onto my hard drive"? Have you conscientiously managed to kept your machine a .Net free zone? Were you always planning to keep it that way,

TDelphiHobbyisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988423327342669888noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802200272789527087.post-40770150416090793542007-04-05T13:26:00.000-07:002007-04-07T09:09:47.717-07:00

Yes, CodeGear has a new CEO [you can find all the details, in a post by DavidI, here: Announcing: Jim Douglas, new CEO of CodeGear] and we all had a chance to meet him this morning during a live chat [CDN Log-In required]. If you missed it, relax, there will be another one this evening at 17:00 PDT. Don't miss that one though! In a nut shell ... I was impressed. The man speaks very, very well

TDelphiHobbyisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988423327342669888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802200272789527087.post-22672361740579716462007-04-02T21:20:00.000-07:002007-04-05T18:31:07.578-07:00

OK, hands up all of you that read the Why Can't Programmers.. Program? article on Coding Horror and wrote a FizzBuzz program? I have to admit that did ... ******************************************************** program FizzBuzz; {Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100 and test for multiples of 3, 5 and both 3 and 5 use Fizz, Buzz and FizzBuzz respectivly to indicate these finds.}

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... we're going to need a few Basic Resources There's a lot more to getting started and doing it right than running up the IDE. You need to arm yourself with some basic knowledge and practical reference material. Yes, Delphi is a RAD product and you can just jump in, start throwing interface objects linked to data controls onto forms and hit the run button to create a piece of "software" that "

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I really can't believe how many time I see that question. It's not that tough to get your head around people. Well ... maybe from a perspective where the emphasis is seen to belong on the term developer instead of where it belongs - on occupational. If that's the case then ... I agree, it could be quite confusing trying to figure out why programmers would be involved in ... developing occupations

TDelphiHobbyisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988423327342669888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802200272789527087.post-44756700220534629722007-03-29T18:24:00.000-07:002007-04-07T10:20:15.811-07:00

Well, I'm not all that certain that we need yet another blog on programming. Having said that, it looks like we're going to get one anyway ... this post exists, here you are reading it and I really don't expect it will be the last I have to say on the matter. I'd like to start off by defining where I plan on going with this and a bit about myself. The name of the site is really apropos

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