David and I previewed Tiburon at TDUG this evening. David showed generics, anonymous methods, Unicode support in VCL, etc. I showed the new and enhanced VCL components.
They had a good crowd of about 35 people show up for this special short fuse event:
Tim Jarvis came to this meeting all the way from Down Under. Now, *that* is dedication! 
Check out my quick article introducing some new and enhanced VCL components in Tiburon.
David and I are getting ready for an internal training event in Toronto. We’ll also be at TDUG - check their page for details and RSVP to them. It should be a good event. I’m planning on bringing my camera and post pictures from there, so stay tuned.
Here’s a picture of David debugging the studio equipment:
Today we had a party celebrating the closing of the deal!
A lot of Embarcadero folks, including CEO Wayne Williams came down to celebrate with us CodeGearians.
Here’s a shot of a small portion of the party:
Chris Bensen (photo geek extraordinaire) told me to get a picture of feet, so here you go:
Greg Jorgensen is chatting with David I (out of focus):
Nice shirt, Greg! (everybody got one)
I just couldn’t resist shooting Michael Swindell off of Mark Howe’s shades:
More artistic and crazy pics can be found if you click on any of these pics and play around!
Enjoy!
Goodbye Borland, and thanks for all the fish! It’s been a great ride, and tomorrow starts another great ride with Embarcadero Technologies!
386 million what? Oh, David and Allen was mentioning days, so I just wanted a bigger number, since my number of years is less… 
The below picture has nothing to do with anything, really. It’s last night’s smoggy sundown in Santa Cruz, and I figured I’d put it in here.
While in Tokyo, I also did four press interviews. I just found this one - Mr Harada-san with Nikkei Software interviews me - http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/Interview/20080612/307894/
Google translate doesn’t really do a good job, so maybe I can dig up a good translation soon.
I was busy contemplating the Tokyo subway map trying to figure out how to get to a good toy store, when the building started swaying back and forth, lamps shaking. I instantly knew it was an earthquake, and a strong one… It was a good minute or so. I looked it up, but couldn’t find it right away, but just now it was posted on USGS. About 200 miles north of where I am. 6.9 magnitude.
We had a good Tiburon field test meeting at the Developer Camp as well. Afterwards we went out to dinner and enjoyed awesome Japanese food and drink!
I swear it’s a total coincidence that all the distilled products are in front of me…
Fujii-san took this picture of my opening session at the 9th Developer Camp in Tokyo, Japan. I also had a session on Delphi for PHP version 2.0, as well as many press interviews over the last couple of days.
All in all, a fantastic event, and I’m honored to have been invited as the featured speaker.
Thanks Japan!
Fujii-san told me I am the first non-Japanese CodeGear person to dine on Monja.
But hey, why stop there?
Under Fujii-san’s expert supervision, I became the first non-Japanese CodeGear Monja Master.
Mal, you really need to try this stuff. It’s the bomb!
The Okonomi-Yaki was awesome too!