Happy “Pi” day. Today, March 14th (3/14 using the US format for month/day), is Pi day. Some cool folks are celebrating Pi, the importance of Pi, the uniqueness of Pi. You can read more about Pi at the official Pi day web site. On the same site there is also a link to a PHP web application that calculates and displays pi to 1,000,000 decimal places. I can’t wait to try out the PHP code using our recently announced Delphi for PHP.
Today was also Day 3 of our CodeRage online virtual conference. We now have more than 2000 registered attendees taking part in our little experiment (beta test?) for developers around the world. Attendees are taking advantage of listening and watching presentations and demonstrations by CodeGear engineers and members of our community on a range of topics. Sessions included product, programming language, platform, and developer technologies. We have two more days to go until this first ever (for us) event is completed.
At the same time, around the world, other CodeGear employees have been hitting the cities, highways and byways of the DeveloperSpace as part of our CodeGear developer days events.
Tomorrow, Thursday, we start again at 6am Pacific Daylight Time. Thursday will end at 2pm (PDT) with another first, the CodeRage technology partner/vendor reception in the chat room. All of the participating technology partners and exhibitors will be hanging out in the chat rooms to “talk” to attendees. We’re even serving up “virtual beer” (whatever that actually means).
Three days done, two more days to go. I know that some readers of this blog don’t like any mention of numbers of hours of preparation or sleep, or about bandwidth, technical issues, or anything else. So I won’t except to say, that it has been a blast all week and I wouldn’t exchange the experience with anything else I have done in my professional career. Thanks and see you all in the morning.
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I for one would love to believe you are really capable of programming (PHP) to calculate Pi (without help from CodeGear engineers)!
Maybe you can then post it on the web site so we can actually believe you know some programming instead of just walking the talk!
James D
James - thank you for the challenge. I guess that after CodeRage is over on Friday, I will sit down and write a Pi (pi) calculator in all of the different languages (real and made up) that I know.
David - I hope you’ve already heard this from many other people…Thanks for your efforts! Please pass that along to everyone at CodeGear. I’ve been part of the Delphi community since the days of Turbo Pascal. I’m impressed by the time an energy you guys are putting into delivering CodeRage…all free of charge. There’s no way my company could offer such a benefit to our customers. Hearing directly from the folks responsible for building Delphi is a huge benefit. By all means, tell us about your preparation, bandwidth issues, etc. It’s your blog, write what you want…that’s the point of blogging. Thanks again.
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