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Archive for April, 2007

Delphi in China

30 Apr

Hey, this is pretty cool.  Seems that China has put on an Open Source Software Contest, and a Delphi/C++Builder toolkit won a prize: “Liu Xiao of CnPack won the gold prize in the professional group for his CnPack IDE Wizards (CnWizards), a free plug-in toolset for Delphi/C++ Builder to improve development efficiency. Several Chinese programmers [...]

Delphi in Redmond

30 Apr

TUESDAY, May 1, 2007 6:30 - 9:00 pm Delphi 2007 / Delphi PHP led by CodeGear’s David Intersimone "David I" Note Special Date and Location: CodeGear presents the new Delphi product lineup, including the new Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP. CodeGear’s (Borland’s Developer Tools Company) VP of Developer Relations, David Intersimone, will review new [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #29

12 Apr

Jeremy North is always doing something very cool.  His latest offering?  How to add items to the context menu in Delphi’s Project Manager. Our CEO, Jim Douglas, has a blog.  (I see that Ben Smith is still blogging as well…..) I will be traveling to Chicago and Minneapolis on April 26th and 27th respectively [...]

What’s up with the Delphi Hour?

10 Apr

We haven’t done a Delphi Hour in a while.  We had the release of Delphi 2007 which got in the way, then CodeRage, then CodeRage Redux, and now all the folks involved, including me, are going to be traveling a lot in the coming weeks, so we won’t have one this week, and I don’t [...]

Results of Top Ten Niggling Bug List

09 Apr

Anyone remember this list?  Did you think I’d forget?  Well, I’m quite happy to say that the results of the list are, well, nearly perfect.  Report No: 22481 ( RAID: 237987 )          Status: OpenIDE memory leak http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=22481 Fixed Report No: 30402 ( RAID: 240470 )          Status: OpenObject Inspector dropdown [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #28

05 Apr

The busiest people in the building right now are the marketing folks.  Check out this schedule of events that they are working on — stuff happening almost ever day for the next few months.  If you are anywhere near any of these events, sign on up and get on out there. Plenty of marketing going [...]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #27

04 Apr

Jeff Atwood has another great post as usual.  This one on Software Licensing.  Software licenses are a necessary evil, as Jeff points out.  They are also a terrific pain in the ass.  Changing them is hard.  Jeff also linked to the WTFPL. I laughed out loud.  The FAQ is particularly funny. If there is a better [...]

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