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Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi

By : Primož Gabrijelčič
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Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi

By: Primož Gabrijelčič

Overview of this book

Design patterns have proven to be the go-to solution for many common programming scenarios. This book focuses on design patterns applied to the Delphi language. The book will provide you with insights into the language and its capabilities of a runtime library. You'll start by exploring a variety of design patterns and understanding them through real-world examples. This will entail a short explanation of the concept of design patterns and the original set of the 'Gang of Four' patterns, which will help you in structuring your designs efficiently. Next, you'll cover the most important 'anti-patterns' (essentially bad software development practices) to aid you in steering clear of problems during programming. You'll then learn about the eight most important patterns for each creational, structural, and behavioral type. After this, you'll be introduced to the concept of 'concurrency' patterns, which are design patterns specifically related to multithreading and parallel computation. These will enable you to develop and improve an interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. Toward the concluding chapters, you'll explore design patterns specific to program design and other categories of patterns that do not fall under the 'design' umbrella. By the end of this book, you'll be able to address common design problems encountered while developing applications and feel confident while building scalable projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Contributors

About the author

Primož Gabrijelčič started coding in Pascal on 8-bit micros in the 1980s, and has never looked back. In the last 20 years, he was mostly programming high-availability server applications used in the broadcasting industry. A result of this focus was the open source parallel programming library for Delphi – the OmniThreadLibrary. He's also an avid writer and has written several hundred articles, and is a frequent speaker at Delphi conferences, where he likes to talk about complicated topics, ranging from memory management to creating custom compilers.

About the reviewer

Gaurav Aroraa has an M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP; a lifetime member of Computer Society of India; an advisory member of IndiaMentor; and certified as a Scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F, and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. He is an open source developer, a contributor to TechNet Wiki, and the founder of Ovatic Systems Private Limited. In over the 20 years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his Twitter handle at @g_arora.

To my wife, Shuby Arora, and my daughter, Aarchi Arora, an angel, who permitted me to steal time for this book from time I was supposed to spend with them. Thanks to the entire Packt team, especially Ulhas and Anugraha Arunagiri, whose coordination and communication during the writing period was tremendous, and who introduced me to this book.

 

 

 

 

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