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Hands-on tutorials on Delphi and the modern web.
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Holiday Calendars in Delphi
A two-part course on computing national public holidays in Delphi — turning holiday rules into data instead of a case statement, the three date primitives the entire US federal calendar is built from, the Gauss/Meeus Easter algorithm in fifteen lines, and merging two countries into one calendar that never needs updating.
- Delphi
- DateUtils
- Date and Time
- RTL
- Object Pascal
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01 — More tutorials
See all 12 →Working with RTTI in Delphi
A three-part course on RTTI — Delphi's reflection — for Delphi developers: what run-time type information actually is and when it earns its place, reading properties, fields, and custom attributes at runtime, and invoking methods by name to build a CSV exporter that works on any class you'll ever write.
- Delphi
- RTTI
- Reflection
- RTL
- Object Pascal
Dates and Times in Delphi
A two-part course on date and time handling for Delphi developers — from what a TDateTime really is and the DateUtils one-liners that replace hand-rolled calendar math, to the golden rule of time zones, TTimeZone conversions, and the interchange formats that keep timestamps unambiguous between systems.
- Delphi
- DateUtils
- Date and Time
- Time Zones
- UTC
Working with JSON in Delphi
A seven-part course on JSON for Delphi developers — from what JSON actually is, through dates, the RTL's three JSON APIs, and serialization, to putting binary data and real images into JSON with base64, and finally generating Delphi classes straight from a JSON document. Runnable Delphi code, and the mental models that make it all obvious.
- Delphi
- JSON
- REST
- Serialization
- Base64
Networking with Delphi
A five-part course on practical networking for Delphi developers — from IP addresses and ports to TCP sockets, HTTP, and REST web services, with runnable Delphi code in every part.
- Delphi
- Networking
- TCP/IP
- HTTP
- REST
02 — The archive
7 more tutorials, back to 2018.
Every tutorial ever published, in one continuous index.
03 — 5-minute snacks
Remember when we had 5-minute snacks? They're still here.
11 bite-sized Delphi posts from the early days — no longer added to, but kept online for whenever you need a quick boost.
04 — Go deeper
Want the longer-form treatment?
Tutorials are a great starting point. For deep, end-to-end projects with full source code, head over to the courses and books.