Archive for November, 2005

Software installers

Software installers.. There seems to be a huge gap between the commercial and well.. the other end of the scale. I‘ve tried a few and that’s at least the impression that I have. Borland Delphi 7 ships with InstallShield Express (Borland Limited Edition) v3.5 Service Pack 4. As far as I’m concerned, it’s great.. for the [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 22nd, 2005 under Software development | 5 Comments »

TeamB meeting note: Distinctions between CoreSDP and BDS

Every year, some TeamB members have meetings with Borland staff, and today included meetings with some Borland execs. One of our meetings was with Boz Elloy, Senior Vice President of Software Products, and a subject we talked about was what Core SDP is, and why Delphi isn’t included in it. He advised that what he said is [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 12th, 2005 under Delphi stuff | 4 Comments »

DevCon environment update and other misc stuff

Fortunately, the lab problem has been resolved, with power strips and extra desks being provided.. Thanks Borland and support staff! Unfortunately, the issue of repeat sessions lingers, with some lamenting that they were not able to make sessions (including myself) and absolutely no repeats were available. Considering the circumstances, this has been a good DevCon. As above, [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 10th, 2005 under DevCon 2005 | 1 Comment »

What’s New In The Delphi Compiler?

This session is far less packed than the “What’s New In Delphi” session was. I’m in the front two rows and surrounded by the likes of Marco Cantu, Lino Tadros, Nick Hodges and Allen Bauer. Major Win32 compiler work: Records with methods Operator overloading If you’re familiar with operator overloading in Delphi for [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 9th, 2005 under DevCon 2005 | 1 Comment »

DevCon environment

Some stuff I’m noting about DevCon in general this year. Some of these are probably because it has been scaled down from the full BorCon that we’re used to however it seems it has been scaled down a little too much. When I registered there were no flyers in the traditional Borland bag. Whilst I’m not [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 9th, 2005 under DevCon 2005 | 1 Comment »

What’s New In Delphi?

Allen Bauer is taking us through a few of the new features in Borland Developer Studio (BDS) 2006 (aka DeXter). The room is totally packed out, with people lining up around the corner. My guess is that they’ll need to repeat this later today or tomorrow. The first thing we notice is that BDS 2006 has a [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 9th, 2005 under DevCon 2005 | 2 Comments »

DevCon begins..

Here I am at 2.40am Pacific Time writing my first blog entry about DevCon 2005. My flight from Sydney to San Francisco (subsequent to arriving in Sydney from Adelaide) was rather uneventful, thankfully.. other than the customary huge line up at immigration. Having said that, to CBP’s credit, the masses moved through rather smoothly. This is [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 8th, 2005 under DevCon 2005 | Comment now »

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