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24 Hours of Delphi - Tuesday, December 20 - current session schedule

The following is the current agenda/schedule for the 24 Hours of Delphi that takes place next Tuesday, December 20 from 12:00am PST (08:00 GMT) and ends December 21 at 12:00am PST.  During the 24 hours we will have special guests, live presentations and demonstrations, live Q&A, and additional sessions from CodeRage 6 and our recent [...]

Want more…Magic

Programming is magic.  Developers are pulling software rabbits out of their hats every day. At the same time, what we do is also very real to our users.  When my daughters were young they played Magic the Gathering card game by Wizards of the Coast.  I would buy the card packs and individual cards for [...]

Want more…Creativity

I’ve always thought that software design and programming is a very creative process.  Developers create something from nothing using their mind, hands, hardware, and development tools.  I love that we can create software anywhere.  I can be sitting at my notebook computer on the beach, in a coffee shop, at home, at work, in an [...]

Want more…Games

Do you like games?  What type of games?  There are many types of games: computer games, board games, football games, Olympic games, basketball games, or the game of life?  I would answer that I like all sorts of games.  In computer games, you love great stories, great action, and great high definition graphics. Performance is [...]

Want more…Love

I am up in Hood River Oregon today for the wedding of Martha’s niece.  It is a glorius day with plenty of sunshine and no clouds in sight.  During the day, we drove up to Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.  There was plenty of snow still on the mountain and people were skiing and snow boarding on the [...]

Want more…Mountains

"Ain’t no mountain high enough. Ain’t no valley low enough. Ain’t no river wide enough. To keep me from getting to you." The lyrics, from the song written by Ashford and Simpson, keep telling me that there is nothing that can stop advance of computer software, developer tools, and operating platforms.
"Climb Every Mountain", the song in [...]

Want more…Fun

For me, programming is fun.  It’s pure joy for me to create programs from nothing.  Even though our jobs are also work, there is also a lot of joy and fun in everything software engineers do.  For Embarcadero Technologies development is also serious business.  One of Embarcadero Technologies R&D’s principles of a winning engineering culture [...]

Want more…Knowledge

I am in the constant search for knowledge of all kinds. While I continue my search in the areas of software engineering and computer programming, I also explore other areas where software might be used.  In my undergraduate studies at Cal Poly Computer Science (1969-1973) I took a range of non-computer science courses as part [...]

David I’s 60th birthday fund raising challenge - send Cal Poly CS/SW Women to Grace Hopper Conference

Today is my 60th birthday.  My beautiful wife Martha and I are also celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary today (yes, I got married on my 30th birthday).  This Saturday (June 18) will be my 26th year since starting at Borland International in 1985.
As part of my birthday and anniversary celebrations, I am issuing a fund [...]

Suburban Chicago Delphi Users Meetup - February 23, 2011 - 7pm

The Suburban Chicago Delphi Users are having a meetup on Feb. 23.  The meet up topic is "Let’s talk about 3rd party VCL components!"
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:00 PM
Porter Lee Meeting Location (Schaumburg suburb of Chicago, IL)
1901 Wright Blvd
Schaumburg, IL 60193
Price: $5.00 per person
Everybody has a favorite tool they use to enhance their programs. Let’s [...]

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