Code Faster in Delphi Book

This book will make you a faster Delphi developer, it doesn't matter if you are just starting out, or have been using Delphi since version 1, you will find all sorts of tips, tricks and hacks to boost your productivity.

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Code Better in Delphi Book

Make your Delphi code better by reading this book! You will find numerous tips, tricks, techniques and tools to enhance and improve code. How does your code stack up? Are you writing code that will be usable for years, or are you heading towards a dystopian maintenance apocalypse?

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Movie #91 - Assigning to an Items Property

"If you assign a stringlist to a combobox items property using ':=', you still have to free the stringlist." This tweet by Nick Hodges is probably very obvious to any seasoned Delphi developer, however I think it's far from obvious to someone new to Delphi. In this video we take a look why we need to "free the stringlist". Watch on Youtube, it's less than 5 minutes long.