Michael Riley
I just re-watched an excellent video by David Schwartz on form/code separation. Schwartz gave this presentation during a 2014 Code Rage 9 session. Schwartz says the majority of Delphi Form-to-Form code he has seen uses what… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
Michael Riley
I’m porting over one of my Delphi 5 VCL, desktop applications to FMX. The target audience are Windows and macOS users. I’m not focused on mobile at this juncture. I’m spending quite a bit of… … Read more
4 years ago in FMX, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’ve made a commitment to learn FireMonkey. My flagship software product, Zilch Standard, turned 30 years old in 2021 and I still don’t have a macOS version. I’ve got macOS consumers who buy my Windows® software… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I just watched the “What’s New with 10.4.2” Embarcadero video. It sounds like there was a lot of quality code fixes put in place. One thing that surprised me is the ability to open the… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
Michael Riley
Once upon a time there was an enthusiastic, ambitious, twenty-seven year old man who spent sixty dollars on a two-inch thick book with a funny looking floppy-disk measuring exactly five-and-a-quarter inches tucked in the back…. … Read more
4 years ago 0
Michael Riley
Here is a link to a web page I found that lists applications built with Delphi.https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_DelphiThe best part about this site… you can add your own software if it’s not listed. It comes with a… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
Michael Riley
Stop your busy life for just three-and-a-half minutes. Watch this video. Answer this question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” in the comments. How I use my “Like Buckets” When I… … Read more
5 years ago in life-hack0
Michael Riley
I finally purchased Camtasia a couple weeks ago so I could create videos in support the upgrade I’m doing of my Zilch Standard software. This is just an interim upgrade that I’m doing using an… … Read more
5 years ago in software0
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… … Read more
5 years ago 0
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… … Read more
5 years ago 0
Michael Riley
This weekend I had a bunch of data inside a FireDAC FDMemtable and I wanted to play around with that data in Excel. So, the first thing I did was review which data formats Excel… … Read more
5 years ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of upgrading a very old Delphi program that I wrote with my Turbo Pascal, top-down, structured-programming, mindset. One of the major updates I want is for the data to be in… … Read more
5 years ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I was watching an excellent video on how to use the batch move capabilities within Delphi to import text data into a database and had one of those “What the heck just happened” moments. The… … Read more
5 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’ve been exploring SQLite within Delphi. There are several sample SQLite applications that come with Delphi if you selected to install the samples during setup. I’ve put together the list of SQLite samples that are… … Read more
5 years ago in SQLite0
Michael Riley
I’m creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: Album, Test, and World. So I added a TComboBox and populated the… … Read more
5 years ago in Source Code, tip-of-the-day0