The Delphi Geek

Slides and code for my Delphi Day 2019 sessions are now online .

Slides and code for the Spring4D conference are now published on the conference page . Slides and code for my two sessions – Design patterns...

Earlier this week a long-time customer asked me why FastMM allocates large memory blocks from the top of the memory and if that option coul...

Dear reader, You probably know that I write books. A big part of making a book, however, is not just writing it, but letting all the poten...

While writing Design Patterns with Delphi , I spent quite some time researching existing literature on design patterns implementation in Del...

Hurry  up , you only have five (5) days left to get a Spring4D European Conference ticket at the regular price! It’s gonna be a blas...

Slovenian company BASS is looking for a Delphi developer (on-site in Celje, Slovenia). (I’m not affiliated with them; they just asked me to...

Hurrah, hurray, my third book is here! It’s called Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi and (just like my first book ) I wrote it for Pack...

New OmniThreadLibrary is out! Get it while it’s hot! Version 3.07.7 is mostly a bugfix release. It fixes a stupid mistake introduced in ver...

Recently I was extending a swiss-army-knife helper record we are using at work and I noticed a small piece of suboptimal code. At first I le...

On December, 6 th I’ll be showing all that is new and shiny in 10.3 Rio to anyone that happens to pass by! Join me in Ljubljana at 9:30 in ...

Hear, hear, new OmniThreadLibrary is here! Version 3.07.6 brings official support for Delphi 10.3 Rio, few changes and bugfixes. You can ...

Today I was porting some legacy code and noticed a weird warning: Weird warning, I thought. Obviously the loop variable can be passed as a ...

When writing libraries you sometimes want to provide users (that is, programmers) with a flexible API. If a specific part of your library ca...

After all these years, Delphi still surprises me. Apparently, as I found out today (by making a stupid typo), Copy(string, index, count) do...

When I'm working on OmniThreadLibrary, I have to keep backwards compatibility in mind. And man, is that hard! OmniThreadLibrary supp...

It is now official - I'll be participating both as a seminar and as a conference speaker on Delphi Day 2018 in Piacenza . This is a new ...

Multithreading is hard! No matter how long you deal with it and how good you (think) you are, you will make a mistake. Usually, it will be...

My second book was also released these days. I wrote it for  Packt Publishing , a publishing house which has recently started printing Delph...

My first book Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary  is finally out! The book covers OmniThreadLibrary version 3.07.5 which was also...