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Borland Consulting Services – part 1

This is just weird! Trying to contact Borland Consulting Services. So on Friday I went to a web site and pull out a number. Trying to dial it I always get voice mail. Ok. They probably have high numbers of calls and just cannot answer it right now. So I left a message on Friday. On following Monday I called back and get the same thing, so I’ve thought, let see what other options are… Get a nice person on a phone and was managed to finally get one of the managers. He took my information and said that someone will contact me shortly. It is Thursday, so I’ve called again. Voice mail again, use magic button and was transferred to Read more…

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

BorCon 2005 – final arrangements

Better later, then never ;o) Christine Ellis posted these details: 2005 Borland Conference November 6-10, 2005 San Francisco, California For 15 years the annual Borland Conference has been the premier event for technical education and has built a solid reputation as one of the most informative technical conferences in the industry. This year marks a new era for BorCon as we transform the Conference to focus on the challenges that “*developers” *face in our ever changing market. The Call for Papers will likely be published by the end of this week. Stay tuned at http://info.borland.com/conf2005 (this URL will change in the next couple of weeks, too).

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

CrystalReports and Delphi – part 1

Ok, this is a first post. Thank you for visiting ;o) After a long time Borland didn’t have a choice but include CrystalReports with Delphi (2005). Competition… ;o) Yet it is supported only with WinForms personality. You would think that it will be logical if one personality have it then two others will have it too, but not. Ok… be it… Finally, we also come to conclusion that supporting many formats for reporting is a good idea and we are buying CR XI. Great!!! I was talking about this for quite some time. But I will still do everything myself to integrate CR with Delphi (7). Fortunately, knowing that this will happen eventually I did implement our current reporting system Read more…

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

BorCon 2004 closing session

Session is started with digest of the moment from opening session. Then it is followed by introduction dance by dancing group which we saw sunday. Dale and David thanks support team, advisory board, speakers, TeamB and people who blog during conference. “Thank you” word to a sponsors Then after some information discussion for BorCon attendees, John presents a new features of BDN web-site: new format (ASP.Net, Diamondback… some section are already moved some might moved as it go), new EventCentral. Dale and David again point to a presentation of new Delphi 2005 version and encourage to go and evaluate product (D2005 preview), prepare yourself for official release. Again Dale point at effort of Borland to go hand-by-hand with developers into Read more…

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago