The Delphi Geek

This is something I learned the hard way - by many times making the same mistake. Let's say you have a function AdjustBitrate that acce...

If I've learned something in my programming career, it is a fact that your coding style changes all the time. [Not all the time for the ...

I have my favourite Delphi setting. A setting that is not enabled by default, but which I always turn on. A setting that many developer'...

Is it four ? Or is it nine ? Or maybe seventeen ? [All via excellent Schneier on Security .]

If you want to do serious (non-GUI :) ) programming on Vista, I heartily recommend following three-part series on Vista Kernel written by on...

Delphi 2007 has gone gold and will be available for download soon (in some countries, it already is). Read more at Steve Trefethen's blo...

I was in total awe today when I found out that there can be more than one default array property in a single class. And I thought that I kno...

In Fun with enumerators, part 5 I wrote "Class helpers offer us a way to extend classes that we cannot touch otherwise. For example,...

Boy, was this an interesting trip. For the last six days I was writing a series of articles on Delphi enumerators, one day each. In some wa...

[ Part 1 - Introduction , Part 2 - Additional enumerators , Part 3 - Parameterized enumerators , Part 4 - External enumerators , Part 5 - Cl...

[ Part 1 - Introduction , Part 2 - Additional enumerators , Part 3 - Parameterized enumerators , Part 4 - External enumerators .] Last time...

[ Part 1 - Introduction , Part 2 - Additional enumerators , Part 3 - Parameterized enumerators .] Welcome back, dear reader. If you were fo...

[ Part 1 - Introduction , Part 2 - Additional enumerators .] In first two installments of this series, we took a look at for..in statement,...

Delphi 2007 supports new-style Open/Save dialogs on Vista, allows you to configure new features in those dialogs and does it in a way that...

In the first installment of this series, we just repeated some well-known facts about the for..in language construct and the implementation...

Iteration over containers (the 'for ... in' statement) is one of the nice things we Win32 developers got with the BDS 2005. I starte...

There will be a new Welcome page in the Delphi 2007 and it is based on the 'community' page , created by Daniel "sakura" W...

Yesterday I wrote few words on Tool Palette changes in Delphi 2007. Besides other, I noticed that The only thing that's bothering me ...

This is something I really hated in BDS 2005/2006. I'm glad that CodeGear people fixed the behaviour (although I'm sure there will b...

I just noticed that Aleksander Oven, a honorable member of Delphi-SI  community is blogging . Just now he finished a great three-part serie...