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Posts pertaining to the annual Borland Convention

Internationalizing InterBase at CodeRage

This coming Friday I’ll be presenting Internationalizing InterBase: Character Sets, Collations, and Encodings at CodeGear’s virtual conference, CodeRage[…]

Hawaiian Shirts and Booze

However, another myth surrounds that self-same conference which says that a totally different group of Microsoft employees (in no way connected to the honourable techies above) were indulging in stratagems and subterfuge. In the end, their actions left Borland founder Philippe Kahn with no alternative other than to deploy the Hawaiian shirt protocol…

InterBase DevCon Session Recorings Posted

These links allow you to read papers and see sample code from some of the InterBase sessions at Borland DevCon 2005.

New StarTeam Features Coming

Brian Rogers is blogging new StarTeam features announced at Borland DevCon. Did someone say new Merge and Visual Diff?

Tech Ed Speaker Auction

This is a great idea….

InterBase Back on Track at BorCon

The IB track appears to be back on the BorCon schedule.

Maximizing the Business Value of Software

Borland has taken my advice and posted Boz Elloy’s presentation on SDO from BorCon 2004 on BDN.

BorCon 2003 and 2004 Papers Online

The papers from BorCon 2003 and 2004 are now available online. Free. Whether you attended or not.

Why is Borland’s SDO Marketing So Misguided?

The ideas are explosive, the products are in the pipeline, and any developer who actually wants to enjoy themselves and pay their bills writing software can’t afford to miss them. So why doesn’t Borland want to tell us about them?
Updated to clarify comments on the conference and add a link to Allen Bauer’s comments on the same issue.

BorCon 2005 Call for Papers Clarified

For the benefit of those who don’t read the borland.public.conference newsgroup, here’s a message that John Kaster posted clarifying the BorCon Call for Papers…

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