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Episode 4.1 – Julian Bucknall

Our guest today is Julian Bucknall, the Chief Technical Officer of DevExpress and the author Tomes of Delphi: Algorythms and Data Structures. We will be talking about the new generic containers in Delphi 2009 and how to use them.

Julian’s Blog: www.Boyet.com
His EZDSL: Easy Data Structures Library for Delphi
Tomes of Delphi: Algorythms and Data Structures
DevExpress
Turbo Power (now on SourceForge)

Winners of the SmartInspect giveaway announced.

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Posted on September 8th, 2008 under Audio podCast • Tags: data structures, delphi, devexpress, generics. • Print This Post • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback

3 Responses to “Episode 4.1 – Julian Bucknall”

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Daniel Lehmann:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
While I really enjoyed the Barry Kelly interview I think this one was too trivial. Most people probably by now know what Generics are. And if you don’t know what a Stack or Queue is, maybe you are in the wrong business I would be interested in how CodeGear implemented the Dictionary Class, as there is no common base-type that has a GetHashCode. Is there some compiler magic going on?

Also I didn’t “wow” hearing that we can use value-types can be used as generic parameters. Come on…stuff like this has been standard in other languages for ages
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David Novo:
September 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hi Daniel,

I think a few new methods were added to the base TObject in D2009. ToString and HashCode were the two that stand out.
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Giel:
September 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I actually did “wow” hearing that value-types can be used as generic parameters!