06 Sep
I’m sitting in the Sydney airport waiting for my plane to Tokyo, and I thought that I’d say a few things about my trip to Australia.
First, a big, huge thank you to the Embarcadero Team here in Australia: Malcolm, James, Elissa, Gilah, Michael, and the rest. You all treated my like a rock star and [...]
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26 Jul
Last week I attended the 2008 Software Industry Conference. SIC is the conference for shareware developers and other Independent Software Vendors. David I attended last year, and this year I went. We go because there are lots of Delphi developers there, and because lots of Delphi developers are ISVs. We want to support our customers [...]
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26 Oct
My next stop was in Japan, and boy was it busy. I did four press interviews, a meeting with Japanese community members, two presentations, and live Delphi Hour, all in two days.
The main event was the Developer Camp. It was a one day seminar for CodeGear customers, this time with a focus on [...]
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21 Oct
Well, I’m in Asia. My first stop was Australia. I feel like I’m in a pro basketball team — three cities in three nights so far. Monday night it was Melbourne, Tuesday Brisbane, and Wednesday night in Sydney. All three nights involved giving a rundown on what is up with RAD [...]
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26 Sep
I’ve been at EKON this week — it was nice to see folks and to get in a few excellent technical sessions. Ray Konopka is here as he is every year and he did a great session on Parameterized Types. Holger Flick is doing a great job with ECO, and Hadi Hariri and Olaf Monien [...]
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23 Sep
Well, it’s been a bit busy for me the last few days. Let’s see — I last wrote on Day One of SDC, but that was almost a week ago, eh?
Tuesday: I had one talk to give at SDC, on Delphi and ASP.NET. It’s a pretty fun talk — in it a build a really [...]
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17 Sep
The first day of the Software Developer Conference was fun — as I thought it woudl be.. These folks really know how to run a conference. My hats of to the great gang of friendly people that run SDC. Things are very well done.
Thoughts on the first day:
Went to a Chad Hower talk on for [...]
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