Last week I was in Sao Paulo for the Fifth Annual Borland Developer Conference, and in Brasilia for the Politec annual developer conference. I just want to say a huge obrigado to our customers, partners, and employees in Brazil.
At the Sao Paulo developer conference, I presented the Developer Tools Group overview and product roadmaps (like I did at the Tenth annual German developers conference in Frankfurt a few weeks ago). Nick Hodges presented the Delphi product address. There were also many great technical sessions for Delphi, Java, ECO, and more.
One of the fun things we did was to drop in on the conference ECO workshops on Thursday and Friday. I showed Alois Schmid’s ECO-based business simulation examples using state machines to drive the simulations. We might often think about ECO for building GUI and Web applications. Others might not remember that the first addition of objects (classes) was in the Simula programming language which was used for simulation work. It is fitting that Alois used ECO’s model driven development and state machine capabilities in a wonderfully similar manner. [note: for those of you who don’t know Alois Schimd, he is the author of “Model Driven .NET Development with Delphi ECO III Enterprise Code Objects” book that is available for sale on Borland shop sites. He is also the instructor for the four day ECO training course run by Borland (DTG) University.]
On Saturday, I spent the day in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. Politec, the largest private consulting/services company in Brazil, held their annual developer conference. Politec has more than seven thousand developers, many of them using Delphi and JBuilder. The event was even more important for the country and people of Brazil. In the morning several of us signed a document pledging to help bring programming and Java instruction to the poorer communities in Brazil. The effort will grow the number of programmers in Brazil and also help the communities help themselves. You can read more about JEDI Java Education and Development Initiative at https://jedi.dev.java.net/ (Delphi developers should not confuse this Java initiative with the Delphi Project JEDI).
As part of the event I had the pleasure to meet with Daniel deOliveira (JUG leader for DFJUG) and John Paul Ruiz Petines (Computer Science instructor at the University of the Philippines). The JEDI project that started in the Philippines is now spreading around the world. These two great men (and many others) are bringing programming and Java education to communities around the world with the help of Sun Microsystems, and JEDI team members around the world. It feels great when all of us, who have benefited from programming, can give something back to the world.
More about JEDI in the future, stay tuned!
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Hi, Mr. David,
I was there too, as I was in all other Borcons in Brazil, it was great fun and great learning (and I was at the ECO session btw). But I just want to point out that, possibly, you misspled "Obrigado" (thank you).
Thank you all for another great Borcon. Go Devco! Go Borland! Go Delphi!
Regards,
Marco Sangali
Hi,
Yes, the correct spelling is "Obrigado", but I think you misspelled "misspelled", Marco!
Romulo
My face is now red with embarrasment. I’ve fixed the mispelling and wish you both well.
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