Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

My two favorite Delphi plugins are now available for Delphi 2009:

• GExperts
  An Open Source project that adds a ton of useful wizards and other functionality to the Delphi IDE. For me CTRL+G, which pops up the “Procedure List” dialog, is one of the most, if not the most important features.
  
  The MessageDialog wizard or “Components to code” are also very helpful.

  Update 2: Erik Berry, the GExperts Project Leader, just announced the availability of a first official GExperts beta supporting D2009. See the announcement at www.gexperts.org. The setup  can be found in the download section.

  The official website does not have the D2009 version yet. “Toms”, a German Delphi community member compiled it for D2009 and offers it at the Delphi Praxis Forum (German only, but you should be able to locate the download). There is currently still a problem with the expert’s Registry location – you would have to manually move it from /Borland to /CodeGear …
  Update 1: Toms just uploaded a fixed version and he also added an English section. Thanks Toms!

• DDevExtensions
  A free Delphi IDE plugin made by Andreas Hausladen.
  
  Important update: Please use at least version 1.9.1. Version 1.9.0 had a bug, which caused “’’ is an invalid interger” exception under certain conditions. Version 1.9.1 is available here.

  DDevExtensions adds stuff like “indention via TAB” – as it should work out of the box And the “Unit Selector”. Only know a part of the unit name you want to use? Hit ALT-F11 with DDevExtensions installed and get a list of all units the compiler can ‘”see” – of course with incremental search:
  

Once you get used to these tools, you feel lost when you have to use Delphi without them

Holger recently mentioned Live Writer again, which is a Windows application that simplifies writing your blog posts with WordPress and other “standard” Weblog systems. Extremely cool – I must say

Inserting images/screenshots is really a snap now!

This article is an announcement for a Delphi Code Camp in Germany. Course language will be German, thus this article is available in German only.

Diesen Monat (vom 22. bis 25. September) wird die Entwicklerakademie wieder ein sogenanntes “Delphi Code Camp” in Mainz ausrichten. Es werden mehrere Ganztages-Workshops zu verschiedenen Delphi Themen angeboten. So werde ich unter anderem auch einen Workshop zum Thema Webentwicklung mit Delphi und IntraWeb/VCL for the Web leiten.

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