Essential Pascal in Print
My online book Essential Pascal is
available in its 4th edition, the first also on paper. The first
printed edition of
Essential Pascal is available on Lulu.com for only Eur 16.50 (apparently
only about 21 US dollars for Lulu). At the same link
(www.lulu.com/content/2398448),
you can also buy the electronic version (a PDF) for a mere Eur 6.50 (about 8 US
dollars).
The book has 140 pages and is focused on the core Pascal language (and not
its OOP extensions) as found in Delphi, with some references to differences or
similarities in Delphi for .Net, in Chrome, and in Free Pascal. From the
page "Essential Pascal is an introduction to the basic features of the
Pascal language, as found in Delphi and other modern development tools,
from the best selling author of Mastering Delphi."
www.delphimentor.com
Do you need help with your Delphi projects? Wintech Italia has opened an online Delphi Consulting and Mentoring Service coordinated by Marco and
featuring some of the gurus of the Delphi community. See for yourself, and signup for a refundable 3 months trial at:
www.delphimentor.com.
Delphi 2007 Handbook
In September 2007 I've released my latest book (my first self-published book) covering all the new features in Delphi 2007 for Win32.
The book is "The guide to what's new in Delphi 2007 for Win32, from the best-selling author of the Mastering Delphi series".
It is available on Lulu at 36.50$. Read more here (and on my blog).
Of Delphi Tools
Among a collection of tools by myself, which badly need to be reorganized, this site is now hosting also
interesting tools by other Delphi developers. The first is
vb2delphi by Albert Almeida.
Delphi, CodeGear, and More
Writing books on Delphi, ,giving training classes on the product and consulting on
project architectures has been my primary job over the past 10 years. Delphi is now part of
CodeGear,
an independent company (still) owned by Borland, and is getting back to its roots.
Delphi Search Engine and Mailing List
I've put online a new Delphi-tailored search engine,
www.thedelphisearch.com. Meanwhile, I've also
managed to move the mailing list for this site to Google Groups. If you signed up in the past, you'll
get an invite. If not, singup up here:
Older Delphi Books: Mastering Borland Delphi 2005, Essential Pascal, and Essential Delphi
Mastering Delphi 2005 is the last incarnation of my best-selling and award-winning book.
See the related pages and buy it online from this site.
I ahve published a FREE Pascal tutorial, aimed at Delphi programmers with little Pascal background.
The book is called Essential Pascal. There is also a book introducing Delphi, called Essential Delphi. Again, a free PDF for you to download.
More Web Sites
Beside Delphi, what do I spend my time with? Web development, JavaScript, AJAX XSLT, XML, Web Services...
and many more buzzwords. The result of this, is the development (often in my spare time) of many web sites, often experimental.
Here is a tentative list:
BookStores: Thanks to Amazon Web Services, I'm hosting a bookstore,
with updated information and my comments on most of the books listed. These are all titles I recommend.
I've now set up a second bookstore with more titles on my blog domain,
Marco's Tech Books.
dev.newswhat.com: I'm is running a newsgroup on his Italian site, which hosts also areas in English. The newsgroup NTTP access is free but requires a subscription.
You can also browse Marco's newsgroups along Borland's ones and many others on my site dev.newswhat.com.
delphi.newswhat.com is the older version of the same site, with many Delphi third party tools: delphi.newswhat.com (here you can create a free
account for posting messages and activating extra features (as creating your own favorite groups and threads).
My AJAX Site at ajax.marcocantu.com, with samples and documentation.
My Delphi Search site at www.thedelphisearch.com, with samples and documentation.
and many more I hope I'll have time to list here.
Past News
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February 25th-28th 2008:
EKON Spring Edition 2008, Frankfurt, Germany.
I'm scheduled to give a tutorial on "Advanced OOP in Delphi" and two sessions on "DSL in Delphi"
and on "Multi-threading in Delphi".
Just Past
December 14th 2007:
SDEvent, Reehorst (Ede), Netherlands.
I'll give two classes on Dynamic Delphi Architectures with Packages and on Delphi and Vista.
November 2007: Gave 4 talks at CodeRage II, the online conference by CodeGear.
September 24th-27th 2007: Frankfurt
EuroDevCon 2007 or EKON 11. I gave a tutorial on Delphi Web Development and 3 sessions.
October 2nd-5th 2007: Washington, d.C.
I was there for a private training class.
I'm available for on-site training, conferences, user-group presentations
on Delphi, .NET, and on XML, XSLT, WebServices (Rest and Soap), XML-Web, and AJAX. Feel free
to drop me an email for prices and availability (in Europe, in the US, and worldwide).
See also my Italian events calendar on www.wintech-italia.it
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