MVP of the Week: Robert Love

This week we are highlighting the work of Robert Love, MVP. I had the pleasure of meeting Robert around the release of Delphi 6. A coworker and I drove from Boise, Idaho down to Salt Lake City, Utah for the launch event (since there wasn’t one in Boise that year). Robert Love runs the Salt Lake Delphi Users Group, and they scheduled a User Group meeting the night of the launch event, so we stayed for that too.

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He leads a team of Delphi developers that work for the state of Utah.

Some components they use there:

• TMS Software’s components
• Logging
  • SmartInspect
  • CodeSite
• Build and Continious integration
  • FinalBuilder
  • Continua CI

He is a top 4% contributor on Stack Overflow, having earned the silver Delphi badge. He also contributes to open source Delphi libraries (DunitX, Abbrevia, etc.), speaks at conferences and is a regular presenter for CodeRage.

• CodeRage 6
  • • Learning Magic Tricks: The Beginners Guide to RTTI
    • Practical Magic: Why would I use Delphi RTTI?
    • Magic Unleashed: A Deep Dive into the Delphi RTTI
    • Exploring the Delphi Debugger
• CodeRage 7
  • Introduction to the JCL
• CodeRage 8
  • A VCL Developers Guide to FireMonkey
  • Responsive Delphi Design
• CodeRage 9
  • C++Builder Understanding Distributed Version Control
  • Delphi – Understanding Distributed Version Control
• CodeRage X
  • Object Pascal Sessions:
    • Introduction to Encryption: Understanding Security Algorithm Use Cases
    • Rock Solid and Secure Communications for EMS, DataSnap, App Tethering, REST, Web Services, and Raw Indy Sockets
  • C++ Sessions:
    • Introduction to Encryption: Understanding Security Algorithm Use Cases
    • Rock Solid and Secure Communications for EMS, DataSnap, App Tethering, REST, Web Services, and Raw Indy Sockets

At home he is in the middle of remodeling his house and working with his kids to add Arduinos and Raspberry Pi to automate everything. When he isn’t programming, Robert competes in competitive dutch oven competitions and volunteers for Boy Scouts of America. He is also an accomplished photographer.

Robert is also working on a replacement for the Component Development Kit that he is planning to make available via open source. I am really looking forward to this IDE add-in. For those that don’t remember, Component Development Kit was an IDE add-in by EagleSoftware back in the Delphi 6 days that walked you through the creation of components. It took Delphi’s simple component development process and made it really powerful.