Hot Stuff in Europe…
Busy week last week in France and then Germany. Hot stuff for two reasons, one with the weather being unusually warm, summer weather. The other with all the things that we have been up to. Iin Paris earlier in the week with some meetings on Monday, including talking with Michael Zam of Karmicsoft, about cool ways of working and showing Delphi and PHP. Next off to stop in Frankfurt, before off to Wiesbaden for the Jax Conference where also summer certainly seems to have arrived early. David I was giving a keynote there, talking about Java IDEs past, present and especially what developers are going to need in the future. Here’s a couple of shots of the hall that I took from my phone.
The Jax conference seems to be steadily getting larger and was excellently organised (as ever) by the guys from Software and Support Verlag, that we partner with for the EKON, developer conferences in the September period. Submissions close May 1st (Tomorrow!) for papers to both EKON 2007 and SDC in the Netherlands (April 30th - Today!) so if anyone wants to get submissions in, do it quickly!
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Posted by Jason Vokes on April 30th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »CodeGear and Delphi on the Road in Europe + Blogs Tags on Delphi 2007 for Win32
So, I got tagged first by Pawel Glowacki (Benelux, Spain and Itlay) in our CodeGear European Evangelist Team to get my next blog entry up. Especially as we have been very busy getting around to around 30 locations in the EMEA region over these weeks with news of Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP. The guys in the team have been doing really well getting their blogs going…like Fredrik (Delphi Lead), Matthias (Germany). It was great to have David over the other week and here are a couple of event shots from Stockholm and Amsterdam…
Fredrik at Stockholm Event David I in Amsterdam
So from my /other/ tag this week, from Michael Swindell, about 5 things that I like about Delphi 2007, so not wanting to choose all of the obvious ones…
#1 A small, but very cool new feature, embedded documentation comments. I created a Live Template for these. It’s great. Screen shot example below…
#2 The new flexible build system. /So/ many large Delphi sites have been asking for this since the C++ guys got pre and post build events in BDS 2006 
#3 DBX 4 is very exciting and is going to greatly simplify and streamline the whole database access story, well done to Steve Shaughnessy and his guys.
#4 New dockable File Explorer. This has saved loads of time already. ok, I know that this is another small feature, but one that seems to resonate well with the community.
#5 Here’s my "cop out" fifth one, rather than going for something more obvious….The fact that there are so many new things in there that we are going to have to get back on the road in April/May/June to keep talking with the developers of Europe and show them the rest ! It has really been fun being out and about showing developers D2007 for Win32 and the Delphi for PHP. So the CodeGear Europe Evangelist Team are up for lots more of this!
So, for a bit of fun…to pass the tag on, Which 5 favourite things do you have in Delphi 2007 for Win32?…I am going to tag…
Pawel Glowacki (tag you back on this one)
…blog your own five reasons, then pass it on to five guys of your own….
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Posted by Jason Vokes on March 13th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 4 Comments »Developer Tools in Moscow
It was great to get to Moscow this week, the last port of call on teh European leg of the Global Developer Tour that we are currently. Thanks to 200+ developers that packed the session. It was very interesting to also have our partners from ibase.ru do a session too. Here’s a shot of the room just before we got started as everyone was taking their seats.
More events are planned in Europe with JBuilder event in the UK on 15th June and ECO III events in the UK on 20th June and Germany on 22nd and 28th June. Stay tuned for registration details.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on May 25th, 2006 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Road Show Rolls On!!
Thanks to everyone for coming to the Road Show events that have been going on in Europe for the last week or so. It has been a great opportunity for us to feel the ‘pulse’ of the community around the region, as we have met with about 1000 or so developers/project managers, while we have also been talking about "DevCo" and showing some of the cool technology in Delphi 2006. Here’s a couple of fuzzy shots (apols, done from my cell phone) of David presenting the n-tier data session in Madrid and Kiev.
In Europe, we are already putting in place National Developer Evangelists, so that we can do more seminars and workshops locally more often. More details to come on that. In the meantime David and Gerard are at SDC now in NL and I am off to Moscow Roadshow Event next week on 23rd May. Also we have a tentative date for the UK ECO III workshop in Twyford of 20th June. Hold that date, I am sure we will be able to can confirm very soon.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on May 14th, 2006 under Uncategorized | 4 Comments »Czech out the ECO Session!
Gerard van der Pol and I had a trip to the Czech Republic this week to feed the hunger for news on "DevCo" and to present a technical workshop day on Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) in Delphi 2006. We were joined by about 100 Delphi guys. I think that summer has come early in Prague, it was gorgeous weather :-)…only saw it from the taxi though! Shot of the seminar below. Now looking forward to David I coming over, boy are we going on the road over the next few weeks. If you are in Europe and near Stockholm, Copenhagen, Madrid, London, Dusseldorf or Kiev. More details are here. Sign up NOW! We are also going to be at the SDC in NL.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on April 28th, 2006 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Developer Events In Europe…
Maybe I could even make a habit of this bloggin lark after all!
In my last posting, I was talking about developer events in Germany and The Netherlands. Well, here’s some shots from those events.
Firstly, the German event last Wednesday 22nd. Here is a very poor shot of the Danny Magin presentation…was quite dark during sessions for my phone camera. 100+ Delphi guys turned up in Hannover to find out what’s cool in Delphi 2006 and also what’s the latest on the spin-off.
Then there was the Software Developer Event in The Netherlands on Friday 24th. A pre-runner to the Software Developer Conference in May www.sdc.nl. There was around 100 attendees from what I could tell there too. Here’s a shot of Gerard van der Pol and Nick Hodges working on some stuff…
…and then Gerard, Julie and myself staffing the booth…
Gerard and I did in a session on ECO III as Jeroen Pluimers was not well 
Hope you are feeling better Jeroen (and also Bob Swart!). oh…and by the way…there was also a four event, developer roadshow in Poland too. With over 650 attendees. Here is a shot of the event in Cracow…
Just sorry that I can’t be in more than one place at once!
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Posted by Jason Vokes on March 27th, 2006 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »"DevCo" on the Road at events in Germany and The Netherlands
Events for developers in Europe this week coming include 22nd March for Dev Tracks Hannover, Germany and 24th March for Software Developer Event in The Netherlands. I will be there at both events talking with developers about "DevCo", Delphi and Development. Hope to see you there if you are in those areas.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on March 16th, 2006 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Delphi Super Hero and Dr Deadline…
We have had some fun with these fellas over the last month or so. The idea is that you download them, send them to all your mates who print them out - preferrably in colour - cut around the dotted lines, fold suitably (so that they stand up) and place one each side of computer monitor. Thus representing the eternal conflict between good and evil… etc etc.. Hint : Fold the bottom flap towards you makes it more stable - and you get to see the "Borland" logo . They celebrate the Delphi 2005 Small Team Pack. As I said, they have been great fun.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on September 29th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments »Borland at TechEd Europe…
With all the excitement of the 24 Hours of Delphi and some other travelling, I had not posted anything about TechEd Europe in Amsterdam (July 5th-8th). :-0. Borland had cool booth/stand there as you can see… can you spot me in the photo? I am there somewhere!…and we talked to hundreds and hundreds of developers over the four day period…. and in the evenings too
Thanks to the hundreds of Borland developers for coming to chat with us….and all the others too 
Coolest thing this year is that Borland StarTeam won best in class for Software Management . So, that is two years in a row that Borland has won at TechEd Europe, in 2004, Delphi 8 won best Developer Tool ;-).
The most common, Delphi related, questions/comments that I picked up from talking with people were as follows…
- Delphi does C# languge as well? (obviously from many of the ‘other’ developers)
- Show me how to migrate from Delphi Win32 to Delphi .NET
- So, how can I continue to do my Win32 development in Delphi 2005?
- What’s this ECO stuff then?
- I read the white paper on StarTeam integration in Delphi 2005 and….
So, we talked and demoed away merrily for 4 days in Amsterdam. What would you have liked to have seen or been able to ask Borland staff on the booth? …answers on a postcard to…
…more later
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Posted by Jason Vokes on July 18th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Which language is more readable…
I really like the look of the thread on Nick Hodges blog about which would be the more readable language C++ or Pascal. Now, I am going to set aside the hypothetical for a couple of cycles (as I have deep roots in both languges - Nick you make us choose between our children here!!), and I am also going to set aside throwing Java and C# into the ring too at this point. I am interested in this in the context of the new C++Builder on it’s way ( BDNtv Hello World, BDNtv Database Dev ). Something that everyone should now be aware by now. So, if you /objectively/ want to express yourself about this, - join the fray.
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Posted by Jason Vokes on July 15th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
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