Written by Kylix experts and respected software developers, this book provides readers with accurate, understandable, easy to use, and dependable programming approaches and solutions. It also helps readers understand the whys of Kylix and Linux as well as the hows, using carefully documented commentary. on why each approach is used. This book is ideal for experienced Delphi programmers expanding to the Linux operating system.
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Don Taylor (Canyon, TX) is a business survival and fast growth specialist, and the President and CEO of Data Staar Communications, a Texas-based business information company.
Gentry is a professional developer working in the Seattle area for an Internet e-commerce company.
Mischel currently develops games for Maxis
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
From MS to LINUX made easy, really easy.,
By Paul Godin (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kylix Power Solutions with Don Taylor, Jim Mischel, & Tim Gentry (Paperback)
Programming VB can be fun but mainly makes your life difficult with all those dll's and missing reference. Linux is easy and KYLIX is a pleasure to use. The book itself is excellent for a VB or Delphi programmer to migrate to LINUX. It's well written and of good value for the money. I recommend the book to those newbies to Linux, it's a good start. I recommend the book to the Linux enthousiast that want to develop fast, excellent and reliable code. Kylix is a charm to use and the book just make it even more charming.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent overview of Linux system programming,
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This review is from: Kylix Power Solutions with Don Taylor, Jim Mischel, & Tim Gentry (Paperback)
300 pages - not encyclopedic - but a rich, thorogh introduction to Linux system programming and how to go about it using Kylix. Well worth the money.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
All the missing bits - manna from Heaven,
By Helen Borrie (Armidale, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kylix Power Solutions with Don Taylor, Jim Mischel, & Tim Gentry (Paperback)
I'm a long-time Delphi programmer and relatively recent migrant to Linux. This book absolutely fills the gaps for me in the numerous places where I'm asking "Now, how the heck do I go about doing THIS on Linux?". It's not about Kylix (although the samples and solutions are in ObjectPascal, of course) so much as about accessing the nuts and bolts of Linux through HLL calls to the OS, MMS and filesystem. Although it is primarily relevant to ObjectPascal it will be a great resource for developers using other HLLs on Linux too. It really fills in the bits that are missing from Linux books, programming books, FAQ forums and so on if your history has been with DOS and Windows and, especially, if you want to cross-plat your Delphi components. I needed this book a year ago and I'm overjoyed to have it, now that I'm using Kylix 2.
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If you have already picked up a book on Linux, you're aware that the Land of Linux is expansive and dotted with mountainous peaks that are both tall and steep. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
file permission mask, popen function, semaphore set, linker name, shared memory object, environment strings, system logger, variable errno, console process, fork function, setuid programs, kill function, lock file, memo box, name modifier, superuser privileges, startup code, flags parameter, comma operator, message flag, child process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Solution Example, Open Source, Program Figure, Press Enter, Function Description, Task Scheduler, Adding Help, Caption Buf, Eric Young, Exit Figure, Piping Data, The Drawer, Command Description, Field Name Description New!
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If you have already picked up a book on Linux, you're aware that the Land of Linux is expansive and dotted with mountainous peaks that are both tall and steep. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
file permission mask, popen function, semaphore set, linker name, shared memory object, environment strings, system logger, variable errno, console process, fork function, setuid programs, kill function, lock file, memo box, name modifier, superuser privileges, startup code, flags parameter, comma operator, message flag, child process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Solution Example, Open Source, Program Figure, Press Enter, Function Description, Task Scheduler, Adding Help, Caption Buf, Eric Young, Exit Figure, Piping Data, The Drawer, Command Description, Field Name Description New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Science of Debugging by Yuan Hsieh in Front Matter
- Using Samba, Second Edition by Jay T's on page 28
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