25Aug 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Expert Delphi by Paweł Głowacki

Book Reviews, Rad Studio Delphi Development
Expert Delphi by Paweł Głowacki   After reading the latest book from Author Pawel Glowacki the feeling of fresh FireMonkey Delphi material left an excellent karma.  It should be part of anyone's Delphi Library since it has great reference material.  The book was written by Pawel Glowacki whom is Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. The book begins with a basic primer on Delphi helping you get accustomed to the IDE and the Object Pascal language.  It quickly moves into advanced concepts dealing with FireMonkey.  You should be able to build server-side services, create new Internet of Things (IOT) and integrate your applet with web services to deploy them to market. As always the pricing from PackT is on the mark.  The writing is very clear at 506 pages and…
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29Jul 2017 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Object Pascal Handbook

Book Reviews
Object Pascal Handbook Embarcadero is offering the Object Pascal Handbook free (PDF) for all developers if you sign up for the free addition.   Marco Cantu wrote this masterpiece and it provides a simple but in depth view of Delphi which is Object Pascal. From writing desktop apps to client-server applications, from massive web server modules to middleware, from office automation to apps for the latest phones and tablets, from industrial automation systems to Internet virtual phone networks... this is what Object Pascal is used for today, in the real world. The idea of the book is to explain core concepts and immediately present short demos that readers are encouraged to try to execute, experiment with, and extend to understand the concepts. The book that offers complete coverage of the…
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17Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Halt and catch fire season 3

Book Reviews, TV Show
Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire The season finale of Halt and catch fire was shown last week for a solid 2 hours.  The entire show has gone from the personal computer start to about the 1990s with the advent of Windows 3. The series has had it's moments with characters that tend to be flaky but came up with inventive ideas that brought social up with ease on social interactions (Mutiny), personal computers that were built to take on the business world (Giant) and finally what IPOs can do to a person. Flawed Characters that know how to party! The characters have grown but in reality some of them would have been in prison for the shady dealings such as "Joe", a person who destroyed the personal computer that…
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12Oct 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Using Elevate Web Builder Book Review

Book Reviews
Using Elevate Web Builder Book Review 2nd edition by Erick Engelke Erick Engelke has written the first ever book about using the Elevate Web Builder product from Elevate Software. What is Elevate Web Builder ? Elevate Web Builder is a visual rapid application development environment for web applications. It is simple and easy to create beautiful web applications by simply dragging and dropping components on to forms, and then changing their appearance and behaviors as desired.  EWB is written with Delphi Pascal as the driving force allowing software developers to quickly build a web based application using a great software language. Elevate Web Builder Book or on-line manual ? The book simply provides code samples along with a description for the section from using PHP, JavaScript, JSON, etc.  It is a…
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26Jan 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

More Coding in Delphi Book Review

Book Reviews, Rad Studio Delphi Development
More Coding in Delphi Book Review Nick Hodges has released the latest additional to the Delphi world called "More Coding in Delphi".  The book is a pretty neat manual but more on the theory side then actual code.  There are samples in each chapter but this is not a typical technical manual that breaks down the syntax concerning Delphi.  The predecessor "Coding in Delphi" was very similar and could be considered part one that dives into object pascal aspects of Delphi. The Chapters are about 12 to 20 pages each and deals strongly in the object oriented Delphi or Object Pascal.  You can pick up both books together for a low cost at various web stores and they are a highly recommended book to pick up.  You can use the knowledge…
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