Robert Meek has written a book review about my Delphi 2009 Development Essentials, which is sold as paperback from Lulu.com, or offered as free bonus for anyone who purchases Delphi or one or more courseware manuals in PDF format from me.

Installing this software (humongous) has been very challenging. Take for example the following which I removed completly from my Windows 7 RC by restoring the system to the earliest date (When windows 7 RC was installed for the first time) since it did not work. The installation pr...

Microsoft released Windows 7 Build 7600 to manufacturing Wednesday afternoon, a day ahead of its numbers. Windows Server 2008 RC2 also RTM’d. Microsoft said the gold code will start going out to OEMs in a couple of days. It’s sticking with October 22 as the date for general availabilit...

In Part II of our Software Factories article series we want to highlight how the theory, which we introduced in the first part, translates into practice. One of the things we found out while working with Software Factories is that people quickly get a better understanding just by seein...

There is a lot of commotion and hope around Software Factories in the community today, which was originally sparked by the Software Factories book of Jack Greenfield and Keith Short. The promise is that Software Factories will streamline and automate software development to become more...

I have, in the past, worked on a few software products that were years ahead of their time. As it turns out, being years ahead of your time in the world of Information Technology is not necessarily a good thing. You wind of spending a lot of your time convincing prospective customers t...

My first exposure to Delphi came during my interview with Anders Hejlsberg at Tech Ed 2004 in San Diego. 'Whatever happened to Turbo Pascal,' I asked him? God bless Mr. Hejlsberg for the patience with which he responded to this rather foolish question. 'Well,' he said, 'that would be D...