There are no easy tricks to inflate page number here.
The examples are often useful but in the book you can find only code that ...
 |   Author : Marco Cantù Number of Pages : 704 Publisher : Sybex Inc List Price: Our Price: $6.98 You Save: $43.01 (87%) Used Price : $1.73 |
Product Description
Kylix is Borland's new tool, based on Delphi, for developing applications that run on the Linux operating system. In this book, best-selling Mastering Delphi author Marco Cantu tackles all aspects of using the tool. Whether you are a Delphi developer who wants to learn Linux development, or you are a Linux developer who wants to learn how to use the Kylix toolset, this is the reference you need. You get coverage of the essentials of the Object Pascal language, building the user interface, working with forms, writing Delphi components, and developing database, client/server, and Web applications. You also learn how to create XML-based Web Services with Kylix. The companion CD-ROM has all the source code from the book, the Open Source Edition of Kylix, useful utilities, and electronic references to Pascal and SQL.Customer reviews
Best book for tipical programmer 
by .. ()
Maybe Cantu's books are not the top level in technical details but they are the easier to read and understand.
There are no easy tricks to inflate page number here.
The examples are often useful but in the book you can find only code that matter, while in the companion cd you can find not only all the code but also the binaries.
All the chapters are in topic and there are no help duplicates (if you know what I mean).
There is a good coverage of Linux stuff like Xwindow, Qt primitives, RPC and an example about commanding Kde with Xml.
Databases are covered pretty well, expecially Interbase, and so the other "Delphi" parts.
In my opinion the only real lack is a chapter about MySql usage.
Again...! 
by .. Chris (Richmond East, Vic Australia)
Marco continues to provide a good, basic, pretty well rounded coverage of Delphi/Kylix development. But as with most of his books this book is sparse on detail and skirts around a lot of real world development topics.
For the beginner it is probably better to buy marco's "Mastering Delphi