I’ve always thought that software design and programming is a very creative process. Developers create something from nothing using their mind, hands, hardware, and development tools. I love that we can create software anywhere. I can be sitting at my notebook computer on the beach, in a coffee shop, at home, at work, in an [...]
"Ain’t no mountain high enough. Ain’t no valley low enough. Ain’t no river wide enough. To keep me from getting to you." The lyrics, from the song written by Ashford and Simpson, keep telling me that there is nothing that can stop advance of computer software, developer tools, and operating platforms.
"Climb Every Mountain", the song in [...]
December 3: Magazines, Books, Blogs and WebSites for Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RadPHP
There is a worldwide ecosystem supporting our Embarcadero developer tools and technologies. Here are just a few of the resources available to you:
Pascal Gamer Magazine - now available for purchase on lulu.com
Bob Swart’s Delphi XE Development Essentials
Marco Cantu’s books on Amazon
C++Builder Developer’s Journal
Jose [...]
Update 1 for Delphi XE and C++Builder XE is now available. There are three ways to get the update:
Upgrading via the Automatic Upgrade Mechanism
Manually Checking for Updates
Update 1 is also available for download from the registered users download pages
Get all the details by reading Andreano Lanusse’s blog article at
http://www.andreanolanusse.com/blogen/update-1-for-delphi-xe-and-cbuilder-xe-now-available/
Additional update 1 information:
Readme: Update 1 [...]
Michael Swaine, of Dr. Dobb’s Journal Swaine’s Flames fame (say that fast 10 times), recently blogged with a list of the most commonly mentioned top technical books - "What Makes a (Tech) Book a Classic?". he also goes on to discuss what makes a technical book a good read. In one of my past Sip from [...]
Donald Knuth, author of the all-time best Computer Science book series (in my opinion), "The Art of Computer Programming", was recently interviewed by Andrew Binstock for informIT.com. The interview is very indepth covering programming, methods, tools, history, architecture, and more. I’ve listed a few of the interview highlights that caught my eye.
On unit testing: "the idea [...]
I received a wonderful suprise in the mail after I returned from all my travels (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Washington DC). Opening up a package, I found a copy of Marco Cantu’s "Delphi 2007 Handbook".
The 258 page, perfect bound paperback book, was self published via the LuLu.com web site. The handbook, written during June-September 2007, [...]
I own a boat load of computer science books. I have many shelves of wonderful programming and reference books at work and home. If you scanned the shelves, six books would stand out as the most used, abused, and dog eared. These are the six books that, over the years, I have read (and re-read) more than [...]
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