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Saturday, April 24, 2004
Fly down the freeway - avoid speeding tickets
Inspired by an email from StarSoft Computer Systems
Friday, April 23, 2004
What does it all mean?
Hmm...
I hacked a traffic sign
Damn, that street looks familiar. Almost like the one my grandmother lived on in Stockholm.
The truth is out there...
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Grafitti marketing!
Delphi 7 update - fix count teaser
IDE - 2
CORE DB - 4
DATASNAP - 39
DBGO - 7
dbExpress - 30
ACTIVEX - 4
COMPILER - 5
RTL - 3
VCL - 13
BOLD - 22
Total - 129
More teasers coming shortly... Maybe even the whole README... ;-)
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Borland Profitability up $18 Million over Year-Ago Quarter
Blog'n Roll
I finally got around to add some bloggers and thought bloggers like Doc Searls, Martin Fowler, James Gosling, etc, etc.
You'll find them over here on the right. More coming as I find them...
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Sun loves Optimizeit Suite and ServerTrace
"Borland Optimizeit technologies provide a robust end-to-end solution for managing the performance of Java and J2EE applications. The Java Performance Group at Sun routinely uses Optimizeit Suite to ensure that our application code is fast and reliable, and Optimizeit ServerTrace DataCenter to obtain critical information that helps make our Sun Java System Application Server products deliver the fastest web services performance in the industry. The two solutions together provide an unparalleled breadth and depth of performance analysis that is second to none."
-- Mark Bauhaus, Vice President, Java and Web Services Business Unit, Sun Microsystems
More customer quotes
Microsoft loves Together for Visual Studio
"Borland's Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET delivers a compeling modeling environment for enterprise customers focused on productivity, quality, software asset re-use and team collaboration"
-- Marie Huwe, Microsoft Corporation
More customer quotes
Unit testing anyone?
Allen fires back
Dang! This could get interesting...
Allen gives Julian a history lesson
Julian, over to you... :-)
Another sound effect
And one more
Free Pizza!!!
Dear Falafel .NET Usersgroup member,
Falafel Software is pleased to announce the start of the Falafel .NET Users Group on Wednesday, April 21st, 2004 in Santa Clara, CA. The group will assemble every Third Wednesday of each month between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM.
Address: Techmart Building, 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 254, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Today, April 21st, we have 2 speakers:
- Allen Bauer, Principle Engineer for .NET Products at Borland Software Corporation, will discuss Open Tools API for C#Builder and Delphi 8 for the .NET Framework.
- Lino Tadros, President & CEO of Falafel Software Inc, will discuss the new feature of .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey) coming Q1 2005.
It is not to be missed! Pizza and Drinks will be available for all registered attendees. If you can't make it please let us know.
Best regards and see you tonight!
More info on the group
More juicy rumors...
Danny's Spring Tour 2004 blog entry has some juicy stuff in it for you Delphites out there...
"While I'm sweating the details of multiunit namespaces at 35,000 feet, Tagawa-san will be finishing up some very exciting Win32 codegen work for the next major version of Delphi, Seppy will be slaving over dbGo for .NET, Corbin and Adam will be grinding through Delphi refactoring, and Doug and the QA team will be shepherding the D7.01 update through the final phases of testing."
"More detail you say? That's what conferences are for. ;>"
(note: my emphasis)
Spring Tour 2004
Danny goes around the world in 25 days
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Finally claimed my blog...
Some day I'll figure out what all this is about...
I just now had some time to look at it... Apparently someone listed me on March 9th, 2004. And people have been buying and selling me...
Right now I'm trying to figure out why in the world my shares are worth B$90 and what that means...
At this rate I can't buy 51% of my own blog... :(
Apparently it was worth B$330 at some point...
Go figure.
How do I get my blog noticed by everyone in the galaxy?
How do I make a million bucks off of it?
Did I mention I was a blog newbie?
Blog on! :-p
People's Choice Awards - Vote for Borland!
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Thanks for supporting Borland!
Delphi 7 update teaser
Let's start the greatest rumor of the Win32 world ever!
Just remember that you heard it here first! ;-)
Link to my blog and spread the news galaxy wide! I know, spineless blog marketing!
The Delphi 7 update is going to fix 100+ bugs... And that's only the ones I really quickly counted from the README that has references to Quality Central.
So don't tell me that Quality Central doesn't work.
Sure, I know, some of you won't believe it until you see it. Well, I've seen it. So believe it. It's coming really soon now.
Watch this space for more news RSN...
More PInvoke.NET
VSj reviews Delphi 8 for .NET
Small overview online Delphi 8 for .NET (VSj)
Quote from magazine print article (April 2004): Overall Delphi 8 for .NET is an excellent upgrade that not only makes it easy for existing Delphi projects to make the transition to .NET, but also offers new possiblities and in many ways does .NET better than Microsoft".
(harvested from a newsgroup post - thanks Alan)
Page 23
"Giving is the highest expression of potency" - The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm.
The meme says:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
(watch how it is spreading on the blogsphere here or here)
via Nick Hodges' weblog.
Monday, April 19, 2004
What kind of chocolate bar?
The only thing I find surprising about this CRN piece is that "almost three quarters of office workers in an impromptu man-on-the-street survey were willing to give up their passwords when offered the bribe of a chocolate bar".
Exactly what chocolate would that be?
I would give people the wrong password, but certainly not anything close to my real passwords.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Santa to elves: You're fired!
It seems that everybody is trying to make fun of "The Apprentice" these days. Seems like a good opportunity for some blogging on a Sunday morning.
Santa to elves: You're fired (CNNmoney)
I don't know about you, but I've heard stories about Santa Claus living in Norway, Sweden, and even in Scotts Valley...
And now Finland. None of these places are of course at the North Pole.
Maybe this is a failed attempt at outsourcing. Ya just can't do anywhere else what's gotta be done at the North Pole. ;-)
Or maybe it failed because Santa Claus is an idea that's in everybody's head and you can't put it in one specific place, especially not in the Finnish Arctic. Who wants their soda pop and cotton candy to be frozen solid?
Oh, Scotts Valley... The road outside Borland is still called Santa's Village Road. I've got a ticket to the theme park in mint condition if anybody wants it. Very cool souvenir. :-p
BTW, Donald Trump is trying to trademark the phrase 'you're fired', so please feel free to contribute to my legal defense fund just in case. ;-)
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