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Delphi 2009 Development Essentials Reviewed

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. ... (more)

Intergrating XML In Relational Databases

Professional XML Databases is not the only XML book from WROX Press. In fact, it's not even the only "professional XML" book from WROX, since they already publish a book entitled Professional XML (which I reviewed about a year ago). This book is a logical follow-up, with the focus more on integrating XML in your relational database strategies. As a consequence, you probably shouldn't sta... (more)

Delphi 2009 Implicit String Conversion Penalties

When migrating existing source code from previous versions of Delphi to Delphi 2009, you may encounter warnings about implicit conversions from AnsiString to Unicode Strings or vice versa (the other way may also have a potential data loss) and while it's easy to ignore these warnings, ignorance comes with a price! The particular real-world example I want to talk about in this post comes ... (more)

Delphi 6 and Kylix 2Web ServicesEasy-to-build Web servicesand SOAP Applications

When Borland shipped Delphi 6 in May of last year, one of its new features was support for SOAP - most notably in the form of Web services. Borland Kylix 2 (for Linux) is now also available with the same capabilities, and as I write this article, Borland has just announced the Borland Web Services Kit for Java, which will enable Borland JBuilder to create and consume Web services using W... (more)

XML Schemas: The 'New' DTDs

This book has nine authors (eight "real," since Kurt Cagle is mentioned as a contributing author), but only six photo faces appear on the cover. It doesn't really matter, as with many WROX "Professional" books, you're used to seeing a number of authors - usually experts in the field - covering different topics and subjects all related - in this case - to XML Schemas. Is it possible to wri... (more)