Last saturday, I spoke with my colleague Edwin van der Kraan at the German Delphi Tage 2009: one of the (or maybe just “the”) largest Delphi user groups events in Europe.
The session was titled “Delphi power user: speed up your Delphi work”.
Since we both speak German, the session was in German, and the slides in the download are mostly German too.
Rougly half of the session was done by demo’s and a few slides.
The rest was discussing with the public in what way they sped up their Delphi work, or what portions of their Delphi work they would like to speed up.
The room was packed with people form start to finish, and we had a lot of fun. Though the public learned a lot, even we had a few “aha” moments ourselves.
Some topics we covered were these:
- The most usefull refactorings introduced since Delphi 7
- Fun with the tool palette in non designer windows
- Everything in Delphi is text based, including components copied to the clipboard
- GExperts search, replace, replace components, ASCII chart and other smart stuff
- Model Maker Code Explorer refactorings, class copying, interface implementation and a few other features
- Beyond Compare magics
Some people (including me) took pictures during this event, you can find the combined list here.
We had a great time, not only because of the location (the ship Cap San Diego), but also because of the perfect organization by Daniel Wolf and Sabine Rothe.
Thanks to them for this wonderful event!
