Nick Hodges

Been a while, eh.

Want to buy both of my books in electronic form.

My deal with Embarcadero has expired, so More Coding in Delphi is now available for sale in electronic form .

My friends David Millington and Roman Yankovsky have teamed up to offer a Christmas time special.

I just got back from attending EKON 19 in Köln, Germany.

I am doing two Embarcadero Partner Spotlights in the coming weeks.

In the last Flotsam and Jetsam, I mentioned a few things that are leaking out about the next release of RAD Studio.

It’s Delphi Survey time.

I hope most of you have heard by now, but my second book is out and it is called “ More Coding in Delphi ”.

David Millington of Parnassus Software – author of the great and free Bookmarks plugin -- has released a new commercial IDE plugin called Navigator .

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencie...

Number 10 with a bullet.

A confession: I was given a free license to review FixInsight .

Two things about Martin Harvey’s threading article that I posted.

Threading in Delphi, or in any other tool for that matter, is difficult.

Stefan chastises me for making another one of my pronouncements on “evil” programming techniques.

Stefan Glienke has two interesting polls going on: Let's do some demographics of the Delphi developers - how old are you.

Wallace and Gromit run on Delphi.

The day is coming when you are going to have to pay to get bug fixes.

unit uEnumConverter; interface type TEnum = record public class function AsString(aEnum: T): string; static; class function AsInteger(aEnum: T):...

Someone finally wised up and wrote a FireMonkey book .

Well, here we are; one hundred Flotsam and Jetsam’s.

Hey, look who’s the first quote in this list of programmer’s proverbs .

When I was in the Navy, I had a friend named Tom.

I’ve been whining about my difficulty in writing a book chapter about the Parallel Programming Library .

Well, the next release of Delphi must be getting close.

Quote of the Week: "In general, you should always strive to eliminate the passing of null rather than checking for null." – John Sonmez #DelphiWeek wa...

To help celebrate #DelphiWeek and 20 years of continuous innovation, my book, Coding in Delphi , is $10 off for the next week.

Last week I sang the praises of Stefan Glienke.

We’ve all been there. “ How long will this take to get done. ”.

Blog of the Week : The blog of the week is Stefan Glienke’s Delphi Sorcery .

In my post about my new book , I mentioned that I thought my outline was a little thin, and indeed it was.

Yesterday I made the following tweet: Never pass nil to a method, and don't let your methods accept nil as a parameter value.

Hey, Delphi ended up really well in the #code2014 survey.

We have a vibrant .Net community here in the Eastern Pennsylvania/Philadelphia area.

First of all, I want to once again thank all of you who have purchased, read, or otherwise supported my book Coding in Delphi .

It’s #Code2014 time again.

I think I’ve mentioned that I have a “challenging” codebase that I deal with in my day job.

I mentioned this video before, but it is so good I’m going to mention it again: Parallel Programming Library: Create Responsive Object Pascal Apps .

A little while ago, I wrote an article on VSoft’s command line arguments library .

The inestimable Malcolm Groves has a nice series going on the new Delphi Parallel Library .

Introduction An important step to writing Clean Code is the notion of separating "commands" and "queries" by using the Command Query Separation Princi...

Jon Postel was a guy that wrote an early specification for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol...

Yet again, I’d like to thank all of you who have bought my book or received it as an upgrade incentive.

Delphi XE7 Update 1 is available .

I am using the Crayon Code Highlighter.

Hello World from my new blog.

This is a list of books that I think that every developer should read.

I wrote a series of articles on using TVirtualInterface.

I do this website mostly for fun and to contribute back to the Delphi community that has give so much to me.