This site aims to provide in-depth coverage of various Delphi topics. Rather than stop at the bare minimum to answer a question, it delves into related issues. It provides complete code examples for you to copy, paste, and use in your own programs with minimal changes.
The site began as a blog, but limitations in the blogging software, combined with limitations from my Web host, led me to abandon that and write the site from scratch using PHP. (The server runs Linux, or else you can be sure there would be some Delphi code somewhere in the setup.)
The author
I’m Rob Kennedy. I hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UW–Madison, and I’m working on a master’s degree in the same field at UW–Milwaukee. I participate in numerous Delphi-related mailing lists and newsgroups, listed below.
Borland news: Several Delphi newsgroups
ELists.org: Both the Delphi and Delphi-Talk mailing lists
Yahoo Groups: The Delphi-en mailing list
Usenet: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc and alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi
Soft-Gems: Several newsgroups, particularly delphi-gems.support.virtualtreeview.vcl
My interests lie in compiler and language issues, the Windows API, and threading. I have made minor contributions
to the JCL, most
notably the JclWideFormat
unit, which provides SysUtils.Format functionality to
WideString values in Delphi 5 and enhanced WideFormat
options for later Delphi versions.
The site’s appearance
If you find that this site looks blasé, it might be because you’re using Internet Explorer. Try as I might, I was unable to make it interpret the stylesheets the way Opera and Mozilla-based browsers do, and so rather than fight its bugs any further, I chose to deny IE any stylesheets at all. All the textual content is available nonetheless.
If you’re not using Internet Explorer, and the site still has what appear to be obvious layout or coloring problems, then I want to know about it. You can tell me via the feedback page. If it would help you describe the problem, please include a link to a screenshot, as I have only limited resources for testing the site myself.