Nick Hodges

https://www.nickhodges.com

Nick Hodges is a Software Development Manager at Gateway Ticketing Systems. He has been a part of the Delphi community from the very beginning. He is an original Delphi 1 beta tester, a former member of TeamB, an Advisory Board member for the annual Borland Conference, a frequent conference speaker, a blogger, and author of numerous articles on a wide range of Delphi topics. Nick has a BA in Classical Languages from Carleton College and an MS in Information Technology Management from the Naval Postgraduate School. In his career he has been a busboy, a cook, a caddie, a telemarketer (for which he apologizes), an Office Manager, a high school teacher, a Naval Intelligence officer, a software developer, a product manager, and a software development manager. Also, he is a former Delphi Product Manager and Delphi R&D Team Manager. He's a passionate Minnesota sports fan -- especially the Timberwolves -- as he grew up and went to college in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. He currently lives in Gilbertsville, PA.

Coding in Delphi

Coding in Delphi

22/02/2014

Nick Hodges
This is a book all about writing Delphi code. It's not about the VCL or database access. It's just about how to use the language in the most effective way to write clean, testable, maintainable Delphi code. It covers a variety of powerful Delphi programming features and techniques including Generics, Interfaces, Exception Handling, Anonymous Methods, Collections, RTTI, Enumerators, Attributes, Dependency Injection and Unit Testing.
Delphi 6 developer's guide

Delphi 6 developer's guide

14/02/2006

Bob Swart, Dan Miser, David Sampson, Nick Hodges, Ray Konopka, Steve Texeira, Xavier Pacheco
Borland(r) Delphi 6 Developer's Guide is a new edition of the #1 best-selling Delphi book by authors Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco. Steve and Xavier are of the winners of the Delphi Informant Reader's Choice Award for both Delphi 4 Developer's Guide and Delphi 5 Developer's Guide. Borland(r) Delphi 6 Developer's Guide is completely updated for Delphi 6 and includes in-depth coverage on Borland's new CLX architecture, DBExpress Applications, SOAP, CORBA, WebSnap and BizSnap features. It continues as a complete reference and authoritative guide to the newest version of Delphi.
Dependency Injection in Delphi

Dependency Injection in Delphi

25/02/2017

Nick Hodges
Dependency Injection is the process of organizing your code in a decoupled fashion. This book is all about how to do that in Delphi. You'll learn all about constructor injection, property injection and method injection. You'll learn about the right way and the wrong way to use the Dependency Injection Container. Write your code using proper dependency injection techniques and you'll end up with a testable, decoupled, easy to maintain project.
More Coding in Delphi

More Coding in Delphi

17/08/2015

Nick Hodges
This is a book all about writing Delphi code. Sure, there's a bit about component writing, too, but the main focus is on code. It's all about how to use the language in the most effective way to write clean, testable, maintainable Delphi code. It covers a variety of powerful Delphi programming features and techniques including Patterns, Threading, Parallel Programming, Aspect Oriented Programming, writing SOLID code and more. All that, and a foreword by the great David Intersimone!