Just another friendly reminder that the location of this blog has changed. This location will no longer be maintained. Please update your links and newsfeeds to point to the new locations. New location: http://blogs.borland.com/abauer RSS Feed: http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/Rss.aspx Atom Feed: http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/Atom.aspx

Apparently the server needed a little kick... it's now up and running. Here's some links to my new feeds: RSS: http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/rss.aspx ATOM: http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/atom.aspx

Well.. Looks like there are a few hiccups with the new blog server. It appears to down currently... Sorry about that.

As I warned you a week or two ago, I'll be moving this blog to a new location. You should update your feed links as this blog will soon go dormant. I may post a few reminders here to catch a few of the straglers, but from now on I'll be posting at http://blogs.borland.com/abauer. See you there!

Well, folks, it looks like I'll be moving this blog to another location within the next few days. Just as a warning, you'll need to update your links and/or RSS/Atom feed URIs. I don't think that the new blogging system will support Atom, so those of you using that feed will need to move back to the RSS feed. Stay tuned...

Chris Sells' post, My First Presentation For A Distinguished Engineer, underscores the level of respect and awe that Anders Hejlsberg still commands as a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It is just interesting when other folks seem to be thoroughly enthralled and "star-struck" about the fact that Anders requested a technical briefing. I worked very closely with Anders during the early days

A little comment about Danny's post. While Danny and I have been elevated to new roles and responsibilities, I must also say that this doesn't by any stretch mean that we are the sole descision makers on technical matters. Quite the contrary in fact. In order for Danny and I to be effective at what we do, we also need a focused, dedicated, and talented team of engineers. Some of them you

It looks like I'll be moving this blog to an official Borland hosted blogging site in the very near future. When that happens, everyone will need to update their links and RSS/Atom feed references. I also hope to be moving the existing content to the new server as well, however comments may be another issue entirely. We'll see..

Technology industry hits out at 'patent trolls' This is an interesting article about the current state of the US Patent System. In general, I certainly think that there should be a government sanctioned method of granting exclusive rights to use a certain invention for a period of time. However, once the system starts to be abused, it ruins it for everyone. Patents for the mere purpose of

Danny posted this bit of information regarding his and my promotions to Chief Scientist and Principal Architect, respectively. Not much more I can say.

This is going to rattle a few cages... I've been keeping a back issue of Byte magazine from August 1986 (yes, I said 1986) that has an interesting article about a brand new application framework for the Macintosh built with Apple's Object Pascal language, called MacApp. Here's the article as scanned from that issue of Byte: The most interesing bit is diagram on the second page of the article.

OK, Corbin not all of us drive Subaru's.... This is mine: Your turn, Danny... BTW, the red car in the background is a 1989 Taurus SHO. The Excursion has since been replaced with an '02 Mineral Grey one (the same color as the Cobra).

After an appropriate amount of cajolling and threatening, Corbin Dunn finally has a blog up and going. Also, Chris Bensen has joined the fray as well. Welcome aboard guys!

In the "keeping up with the Jones'" department (Anders Ohlsson and Michael Swindell), I just ran across this Huge B-52 flying scale model. What is really interesting is that it uses real turbine engines! Some folks have just have way too much time (and money) on their hands..

In this rather lengthy entry in Chris Brumme's weblog, Startup, Shutdown related matters, he outlines many little-known items related to how the Windows OS handles dynamic loading of DLLs. He also mentions a major potential "gotcha" when executing code in "DLLMain()" (or in Delphi parlance, the unit initializations for all units in a Delphi "library"). Most of his discussions are couched in

So I've been trying out Pluck for the past couple of days as my news aggregator and so far I'm quite impressed. It displays the actual web page of the blog article by browsing to the originating site within a browser pane. So this means that even if the RSS feed doesn't include the entire article text, it doesn't matter because you are taken straight to the originating web page. All of this is

Hallvard's Blog Hallvard has a keen eye for the details. He also is one of the few Delphi customers that succeeds in keeping us on our toes on a regular basis. No chance of getting too complacent with Hallvard looking over our shoulder... Welcome to the blogsphere!

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Inside track I think Mary got a little mixed up. From the article: Thorpe's disclaimer includes the line: "If you actually think that my opinions are a reflection of Borland, then I have a bridge I can sell you." Now scroll down to the bottom of this page and read my disclaimer. Then follow this link to Danny's blog and scroll down to the bottom of that

OK.. I just couldn't let this one go... I tried.. really I did. Seems Bill is talking up blogging to top CEOs. This will either be great for many companies (especially technology driven companies)... or not. According to Gates: "Another new phenomenon that connects into this is one that started outside of the business space, more in the corporate or technical enthusiast space, a thing called

I was trolling through the newsgroups while rebuilding Delphi, and happened across a post that was wondering what happened to "Charlotte?" I suppose one could also ask, "what happened to the Delphi /Java byte-code compiler?" I can't necessarily say that they're dead, but just dormant. They were also just technology demonstrations which were the result of some internal research. Many times we