Kylix: The Professional Developer's Guide and Reference is a comprehensive guide for developers wishing to make quick inroads into developing native applications for the Linux platform. Consisting of fourteen chapters divided into five sections, author Jon Shemitz's book covers a wide-ranging gamut of topics relevant to both novices and experts alike.
Section One, 'Object Pascal,' is devoted to a quick introduction to Object Pascal, Shemitz quickly brings non-Delphi/Kylix programmers up to speed regarding the foundational concepts of one of the platform's core languages.
Section Two, 'Kylix,' turns the reader's attention towards the core functionality of the Kylix application, including information regarding basic configuration and platform navigation, object design and manipulation, using libraries, and component creation.
Section Three, 'Linux,' is devoted to programmers migrating from the Windows platform to Unix, providing a general survey of those components that a Unix novice would be best-served to understand when developing native Linux applications.
Section Four, 'Projects,' is devoted to illustrating how two practical applications are created in Kylix.
The book closes with Section Five, 'Appendices,' which includes a comparative reference for programmers migrating to Kylix from Visual Basic and Delphi backgrounds. Valuable information regarding optimization and deployment is also included.
Learn more about the author and Kylix: The Professional Developer's Guide and Reference at http://www.midnightbeach.com/kylix/.
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Rating: - Kylix Reference (but without Database or Internet coverage)
When I received this book, I was impressed by the fact that it contained 943 pages on Kylix - without covering any database or internet development. Now that I finished the book, I'm even more impressed. Not by what's not in the book, but by what's actually covered in the book. Somehow, the book reminds me of the years I spent at the University of Amsterdam (back in 1983), and first learned to work with UNIX and Minix. I'm not sure why. Maybe the fonts, maybe the quality. But one thing ... Read More
Rating: - If you only buy one Kylix book..
This book is a whopping 1000 pages and never did I get the feeling that _any_ of it was fluff. Not only does it give you a thorough exposition on writing programs in Kylix, it also delivers vital information on writing and running programs under Linux. Many programming books come with source code as does this one, but I almost always never use such code because of poor quality or a lack of relevance to my project. Within 10 minutes of starting this book I had found critical uses for several of the ... Read More
Rating: - Better than the best
Well done, Jon Shemitz. Two things jump out from this book: first, lots of text and virtually no screen shots. That means a LOT of very erudite content. Second, brilliant organisation. It's not a feature of many Delphi/Kylix books, even the worthy ones, and it is manna when it droppeth.
The book touts itself as "a comprehensive guide for developers wishing to make quick inroads into developing native applications for the Linux platform". Comprehensive it is, but this is no quickie how ... Read More
Rating: - The best general-coverage Kylix book yet.
There are an infinite number of ways to skin any given cat, and when covering a new RAD environment, which one you use depends almost entirely on who your target audience is. Jon Shemitz has written his book for the experienced programmer coming to Kylix from other RAD environments on platforms other than Linux/X. This, I feel, is the source of Kylix's user base: Not the casehardened command-line Unix-lifer gcc guys, but people who have been using Delphi, Visual Basic, or Visual C++ under Windows. Read More
- Kylix Reference (but without Database or Internet coverage)
