Kylix : The Professional Developer's Guide and Reference

Jon Shemitz's "Kylix: The Professional Developer's Guide and Reference" is a comprehensive guide for developers wishing to make inroads into developing native applications for the Linux platform. Shemitz covers a 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 on the foundational concepts of one of the platform's core languages. Section Two, "Kylix," turns the reader's attention to the core functionality of the Kylix application, including information on 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 wouldbe best-served to understand when developing native Linux applications. Section Four, "Projects," is devoted to illustrating two practical applications created in Kylix. The book closes with Section Five, "Appendices," which includes a comparative reference for programmers migrating to Kylix from Java, Visual Basic, C++, and Delphi backgrounds. Valuable information on optimization and deployment is also included. About the author: Jon Shemitz has been using Borland's Pascal ever since Turbo Pascal 1.0. He's been a corporate programmer, and made his bid for mass-market software riches; these days, he makes a comfortable living as a contract programmer. He's written scores of magazine articles and several book chapters; this is his first book.