Next week I'll present all about the new RAD Studio 12 in Ljubljana. As usual, the presentation will be in Slovenian language and so will be the rest of this post ...
Saturday, December 02, 2023
Friday, July 21, 2023
CQLBr for Delph/Lazarus
It is so nice when you see how a small idea grows into a nice, rounded project!
Years age I wrote a unit that allowed you to write SQL statements as Pascal code (GpSQLBuilder). This has allowed me to write a code like this:
query := CreateGpSQLBuilder;
query
.Select.All
.From(DB_TEST)
.OrderBy(
query.&Case
.When([COL_2, '< 0']).&Then(COL_3)
.&Else(COL_4)
.&End);
It was a small project with minimum support -- as long as it generated SQL code that I've needed, I was fine with it. Much of the SQL language support was missing, there was no support for different SQL dialects and so on ...
Luckilly, Isaque Pinheiro liked the idea and converted it into a full-fledged library with support for multiple SQL dialects, much more complete SQL language support, units tests, installer, a ton of samples and more.
Sunday, July 09, 2023
Delphi High Performance, Second Edition
The second edition of my book Delphi High Performance is now released! Get all 452 pages of Delphi goodness with two new chapters and all the updated and improved content at Amazon or at Packt Publishing!
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Delphi High Performance, encore!
It is so interesting to publish a book for the second time. In a way it is similar to reviewing and fixing old code--you go from "well said, old man!" to a "what the #$%! were you thinking when you wrote that" in a matter of pages. It also helps if you do pair-programming have great technical reviewers that help by pointing out the latter and add frequent "this may be obvious to you but I have no idea what you've just said" comments.
Big thanks go to Bruce McGee and Stefan Glienke for improving this book! It would be worth at least a half "star" less without them.
Update: The book is now available on Amazon and Packt Publishing.