Borland Developer News .NET Edition April 2004
Thursday, March 25th, 2004Read the April 2004 installment of the Borland .NET Development Newsletter. The newsletter contains information, news, and links.
Archive for March, 2004
Brand new .NET User Group
Thursday, March 25th, 2004WooHoo! Free falafels!
Falafel has just started a .NET User Group in the Bay Area.
PS: I don’t know about the free falafels, but I’m certainly going to ask about them.
Quit the rumor mongering
Thursday, March 25th, 2004Danny addresses a personal rumor on the newsgroups.
He writes "The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" and "I have no plans to leave Borland for the forseeable future".
Danny stated the same in his blog earlier this year.
Danny continues in his post to elaborate on how these rumors are bad for our business relationships.
I agree with Danny, if you hear such rumors, *please* ask us to validate or discard them before passing them on. Rumor mongering makes no one happy.
Danny also notes that he will be in Redmond next week on normal Borland business. This is completely normal. People from different companies have to get together to discuss business sometimes. If there was a rumor for every customer I talked to, I’d be drowning in rumors.
Even I have been up at Microsoft myself a couple of times. And I’m still at Borland as well.
Thanks for paying attention. Next time a rumor pops up, please help put it out. Stop the FUD. Stop the rumors.
More on the C#Builder award "Best Development Tool"
Thursday, March 25th, 2004Alison Deane accepts the award (this page switches photos every ten seconds)
Go C#Builder!
Today I’m 8 years old
Thursday, March 25th, 2004In Borland years that is. Or 252,288,000 seconds. That sounds a lot more impressive!
Time flies when you’re having fun! Where’s my birthday cake?
Bill Gates stops by the Borland booth
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004Bill Gates just stopped by the Borland booth at VSLive! in San Francisco.
Alison Deane, David Intersimone, Michael Bartzel (talking), Vivek Uniyal, and Bill Gates.
I, of course, was behind the camera. You can buy my camera with the pictures still in it… 
Look forward to more coverage live from the show right here…
C#Builder wins "Best Development Tool"
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004At the Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards last night, C#Builder won the category of "Best Development Tool".
Congratulations to the Borland .NET team!
The award will be displayed proudly in our booth at VSLive in San Francisco for the remainder of this week.
Mobile Studio Trial now available
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004The Mobile Studio Trial is available for download on Borland’s web site.
Now you can take the Mobile Studio for a test drive and see how easy it is to develop mobile applications.
Delphi 8 Architect Trial available
Monday, March 22nd, 2004Hot off the presses!
The Delphi 8 Architect Trial is available now.
Download, install and take this evolution of Delphi for the .NET revolution for a test drive.
I think you’ll love it!
VSLive! San Francisco
Monday, March 22nd, 2004VSLive! San Francisco takes place March 23-27 at Moscone Center West.
Don’t miss this chance to come and see Borland’s offerings for complete application lifecycle management on the Microsoft .NET platform.
I and the rest of the Borland crew will be in the exhibit hall.