JAX Asia Conference in Singapore
I’ve spent the last two days at the JAX Asia Conference in Singapore. I presented a session on JBuilder 2007 twice and spent a bunch of time talking to attendees in the hallway and over meal breaks about what they were working on. CodeGear was a common discussion point, as was the "double whammy" of JBuilder not only moving to Eclipse but also embracing Open Source so deeply via ProjectAssist and TeamInsight. The great thing was how well people reacted to both of these. In fact one of the attendees at my second JBuilder session came up to me at the end and very excitedly exclaimed "that looks bloody great". Now if this had been Australia, I wouldn’t have battered an eyelid, but being Singapore I was a little surprised 
The conference was also fun as they had a great collection of speakers. Neil Ford from ThoughtWorks, Craig Russell from Sun Microsystems, Randy Powell from IBM, Rod Johnson of Spring Framework fame, and a whole bunch of other really big-brained speakers made for not only some great sessions but some very challenging dinner conversations as well. It was also good to catch up with the other vendors who were exhibiting there. Now that JBuilder is based on Eclipse and the CodeGear announcement is out there, there were so many opportunities to work with other vendors.
I’m definitely looking forward to this event next year. Like our own developer conference, I came away fired up to try out a bunch of technologies I haven’t looked at before. Masoud and his team at SDA Asia did a fantastic job of organising and running it.
Oh, and in case you’re not aware, they have also launched a new Eclipse Magazine. Electronic editions (in PDF) are completely free, check it out here
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on November 29th, 2006 under General | Comment now »Think about it. Have you seen David I and Chewbacca in the same room?
I’ve just uploaded another old Borland movie to YouTube. The latest one is the "Star Wars" parody from the 97 Borland Conference. Expecially interesting as it features Del Yokam, who was one of the key people behind the whole Inprise name change. Also worth watching for David’s turn as a Wookie.
The videos so far are:
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on September 4th, 2006 under General | Comment now »ADUG Marches North
For anyone living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia there is a new ADUG (Australian Delphi User Group) chapter starting up.
ADUG already have chapters in Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, and this new group, meeting in Buderim, will kick off with Glenn Stephens discussing DotNetNuke and how to develop DotNetNuke modules in Delphi for .NET.
More details here
A quick surf in the morning, then down to Buderim to talk Delphi. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning. Hmmm, I must make sure I get on the speaker roster
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on August 1st, 2006 under General | 2 Comments »Terence Chow is now blogging.
Just wanted to let some of our Chinese readers know that Terence Chow, one of our Chinese Devco Evangelists (based in Hong Kong), is now blogging. His blog, in Simplified Chinese, is available here
Update: Link above changed to one visible in China.
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on July 11th, 2006 under General | 4 Comments »ADUG Symposium in Melbourne and Adelaide
The Australian Delphi Users Group have been holding yearly Symposia since 1999 (I remember as I had to catch an early flight back from the first one to get married the next day), and the lineup just gets better every year. This year it’ll be in Melbourne and Adelaide, and the sessions include:
- How to implement Plug-ins in .NET - Glenn Stephens
- Sweet-talking Firebird with Delphi - Helen Borrie
- Component Development in Delphi/VCL - Glenn Crouch
- Delphi.Net on Linux using Mono - Emlyn ORegan
I’ll be there talking about Devco and the future of Delphi, but to be honest I’m also excited just to sit in the audience for the day and listen to some really smart developers. Also, anyone who is doing anything with Interbase or Firebird needs to attend just to listen to Helen, she literally wrote the book on Firebird.
More info, including the stupidly long list of prizes, available here
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on May 29th, 2006 under General | Comment now »One Night in Bangkok
Well, more like afternoon I guess. The Devco Roadshow hit Thailand recently, and nearly two hundred local customers came to listen to news of the divestiture, hear about the roadmaps for Delphi, JBuilder and Interbase, and of course to see some demos of JBuilder 2006 and BDS 2006.
On the left in the photo above is Jirayu Wiriyaphibool, one of the local Delphi gurus and long time Borland supporter. Jirayu also helped us out with translation during the day.
Some of the ASEAN Borland team (left to right) Sachin Raj, Hazel Ho (with back to camera) and Karen Lee. Also far right is Robert Ong from our partner in Thailand. Nick Jackson, Devco APAC VP and I are obscured in the background
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on May 29th, 2006 under General | 1 Comment »DevCo Roadshow hits China
Jason and David have been doing a great job out and about in Europe spreading the Devco word, now it’s APAC’s turn.
Gordon Li has hit the road in China, and has already done events in Xiamen and GuangZu. There are details and some more photos over at his blog, but I’ve linked to a few of the photos below.
I’ve been in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and I’m currently in Korea, and as soon as I get hold of the photos from these events I’ll post them as well.
The response from press, customers and partners has been fantastic! Roll on Devco!
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on May 29th, 2006 under General | 3 Comments »BDS2006 in China
Gordon Li (Li Wei) has been visiting a bunch of cities in China promoting BDS2006, including ChongQuing, Xi’An, ShengZeng and DongGuang. He’s blogged about it (in Traditional Chinese) along with photos here.
Gordon is a bit of a rock star in Taiwan and China. He’s published more than 10 books on Delphi in Chinese, and is probably the most recognisable worldwide Borland employee to our customers there. I’ve heard a few times from Borland US people who visit China (and experienced it myself) that after they present a session, there are more people coming up to ask if Gordon is there than to ask questions about the session
Good to see the word being spread worldwide.
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on March 29th, 2006 under General | 1 Comment »ECO : Autoforms and Form Factories
We’ve been doing a bunch of ECO sessions around New Zealand and Australia over the last couple of weeks.
In Wellington, the topic of Autoforms and the form factory came up. So on the way home I wrote this article, covering Autoforms, as well as registering your own custom autoforms with the form factory.
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on September 1st, 2005 under ECO | 3 Comments »24 Hours of Delphi
So, we’re getting close to the 24 hours of Delphi online radio thingy (yes, I think that’s the official name). The schedule is up here.
I’m going to be on at midnight PST, and then again at 11pm PST (which thankfully is a much more civilised 5pm and 4pm respectively where I am), but I’ll be sticking my head in whenever I can. I’ll also be making an effort to be online for the ECO bits, which are:
- 3:00 am PST with Jan
- 3:45 am PST with Jonas
- 10:00 am PST with Daniel
- 7:00 pm PST with Randy
- 10:00pm with Tim and Dick
Hmmm, Brian Long is always good value, and Marco, and…, OK, looks like I’m not going to get much work done for the next 24 hours.
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Posted by Malcolm Groves on July 13th, 2005 under ECO | Comment now »
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