The Hacker’s Corner

The off-topic group on our old (and now dead) NNTP server existed as a runoff for unwanted posts in the technical groups. The intent was to have a group for people who felt that they needed to communicate their off-topic thoughts outside of the technical groups, and also to have a group to re-direct off-topic (including thread drift) posts to.

We’re now debating whether or not to kill off-topic completely.

You can have your say in the following poll that we put together:

https://forums.codegear.com/poll.jspa?pollID=9

The ideas behind the possible responses are as follows:

1. You either participate in off-topic so much that you would bail if it disappeared, or you believe that the existence of off-topic keeps the technical groups clean from unwanted stuff and it would make the technical groups rot so bad that you’d bail.
2. You would post all your off-topic posts in our technical forums if off-topic went away, or you believe that others would post all their off-topic posts (that are now in the off-topic group) and make the technical groups hard to navigate.
3. You’d be just as happy with off-topic going away, and you’d keep our technical groups clean by not posting anything off-topic grade…
4. You’d live with whatever the outcome is
5. You couldn’t care less

Thanks!

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The first two videos in the Sneak Peek series are up and live on the Developer Network.

What’s New in the VCL?

C++0x support!

Enjoy!

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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!

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Check out my quick article introducing some new and enhanced VCL components in Tiburon.

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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:

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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