Back from EKON
I just got back from a great trip to Germay to attend the European Developers Conference. It was great to get out and visit with customers (I met a Delphi programmer from Nigeria there!) and see what they were up to. I gave the Delphi Product Address to a pretty nice crowd, and had a lot of interesting questions from the crowd. It was also nice to meet with a bunch of folks from the European side of Borland DTG. The other nice thing was the food — I could never move to Germany because all I’d want to do there was eat.
I owe a great big thanks to Masoud Kamali and his crew at S&S. They exceedingly hospitable and generous, and they know how to run a very good conference. I really enjoyed myself, and hope to be able to go again next year. Thanks again to everyone for spending time talking with me and for your kind words about my talk.
BTW, I recorded most of my talk with Camtasia, so I hope to be able to get that up on the web so the rest of you can see/hear the Product Address.
In my latest Dr.Bob Examines article, I’ve written down my personal interpretations of the Delphi Highlander and nDataStore news I heard and demos I saw at the Opening Keynote, as well as your Delphi Product Address and Technical "what’s cooking" Keynote at the EKon 10 / Borland Developer Tools Group (DTG) Europe 2006 Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
September 29th, 2006 at 6:25 amSee http://www.drbob42.com/examines/examin82.htm (which will be obsolete by the time your camtasia recording is online, of course)
> BTW, I recorded most of my talk with Camtasia, so I hope to be able to get that up on the web
> so the rest of you can see/hear the Product Address.
Hi Nick,
Are those talks in German or in English ?
Would be interesting to hear you speak German.
Ruud
September 29th, 2006 at 7:21 amKent, if you don’t specify the class as a "class fragment", then it’s not a partial class to begin with. So that’s easy to enforce (or verify)…
September 29th, 2006 at 8:42 amKent –
I’m no fan of class fragments either, but they are required for .NET 2.0 support.
Nick
September 29th, 2006 at 9:54 amRuud –
My talk is in English.
Nick
September 29th, 2006 at 10:25 amBob: I wish I could get an error whenever a class is compiled and it is defined as a "fragment". Just to fire the programmer easily <G>
September 29th, 2006 at 12:03 pmNick: I know .NET requires them, but Win32 doesn’t. Maybe I’d like a switch to enable/disable .NET "compatibility" features. IMHO there is not need to ".NETize" Delphi too much - it could be a big mistake. It means new features of Delphi are driven by MS, not DevCo. - and you’ll always be a step behind.
Regarding these conferences.
I see a lack of essential libraries like Blas/Lapack/GSL, etc in Delphi. I wonder if you guys saw something like that in this or other Conferences. In particular, Blas could be implemented *very* efficiently in assembly.
It may seem odd, however, most serious applied math coders just don’t look at Delphi because of this.
It may a little off, but these "little" details make C and Fortran look more credible when they are not.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:00 pm