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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.

This book is all about the cool, new code you can write with Delphi. It won't matter whether you are building a VCL or an FM application. I've titled it "Coding in Delphi" because I want to make it a book that shows you simple examples of how to use powerful features -- that, is about the *code*. These language features are indeed advanced features -- they are new relative to, say, the `case` statement -- and thus many of you are beginners to them. By the end of this book, you won't be. What you will find are ways to make your code much cleaner, much more powerful, and way easier to maintain.

"More Coding in Delphi" picks up where "Coding in Delphi" left off, continuing to illustrate good, sound coding techniques including patterns, Aspect Oriented Programming and programming for the Parallel Programming Library.

Outline:

• Six Thoughts on Coding Before We Start
• Writing SOLID Code
• DuckTyping
• Aspect-oriented Programming
• Observer Pattern
• Adapter Pattern
• Decorator Pattern
• Command Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• Multi-Threading and Parallel Programming
• Things Nick Does in Code
• TSmiley