Magazines:-
- Visual Developer (discontinued)
AFAIK it lives: http://www.visual-developer.com/
and I have the May June issue in front of me on the desk mess.
- Delphi Informant
- Delphi Developers Journal (I think now taken over by Delphi Developer)
I believe Delphi Informant the best of the Delphi
magazines and the CD back issue is a sensible tool.
As for recent books I have Calvert, Cantu and
Pacheco et al for D4. Calvert and Pacheco are moderate to advanced while Cantu
is very broad. All three were on my doorstep in a very large plastic sack for
$180NZ after waiting 10 days from barnes and
noble (and without expensive air freight) .Finding one of them in NZ will set
you back $135-150 each. If you can have only one then my rank would be Pacheco,
Calvert, Cantu. Some might be irritated by the several hundred pages in Acrobat
format which the first two include.
Not only is the VCL a good place to gawk but there must by now be more
source code lying around the Internet for Delphi than any other Windows
compiler.
Printing the Object Pascal guide (it should also be purchasable) and
reading it several times is also worthwhile even when you think you know it
all. If Pascal is the stumbling block then there are many documents and
tutorials lying around the net including ANSI specs etc etc. Start here : http://pascal-central.com/
Cheers,
Steve Cooney
