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Sunday - May 19th
Today started with a great pre-conference tutorial by Danny Thorpe about the .NET FrameWork (through the eyes of Delphi Developers).
The latest news (from the Borland Community website) includes the Linux Format's Top Stuff Award for Kylix.
The Opening Keynote started out in the Bond theme, with a special role for "gadgets" (wireless or otherwise). We saw David I in the role of James Bond 007 "license to code", with Dale Fuller. Special guests included Blake Stone who showed JBuilder 7 and some of the IDE enhancements (such as errors-on-the fly and refactoring) in JBuilder, so I was right about the announcement of JBuilder 7 this week (which will officially happen during the JBuilder Product Address).
Another special guest was Chuck J. who showed an IDE with Delphi 7 in the titlebar, but then
used the command-line compiler DCCIL to compile it to a .NET Windows Forms application. This application not only ran on Windows with .NET, but also on a gadget (Tablet PC) using .NET.
Another news item concerned the Borland Community website, which will be renamed (and restructured) to Borland Developer Network.
Monday - May 20th
The RAD Product Address was the first of a 2-part story about Freedom. Today was the first part, called "Freedom Today". Tomorrow (tuesday) will be the second part, called Freedom Tomorrow. As a result, I'm afraid today didn't really contain a lot of news, although it did mention two codenames: Cortez and Aurora.
The news items that are worth to repeat concern Kylix 3 (codename: Cortez), which was shown to consist of two different IDEs: one for Delphi and one for C++. We saw Kylix 3 for C++ in action, which seemed to be the Linux edition of C++Builder 6 (just as Kylix 2 is currently the Linux edition of Delphi 6). I wonder if Kylix 3 will contain any improvements on the Delphi side, or if the main "new feature" of Kylix 3 will be the fact that it now contains a C++ IDE.
apart from Kylix, we saw one quote about the future of Delphi as follows: "Aurora will help Delphi developers build applications that are .NET ready." I must say I'm not sure what this means exactly: .NET ready do
esn't sound as if we're talking about .NET deployment. So maybe Aurora (the codename for Delphi 7, for which we saw the IDE) is something different than the DCCIL command-line compiler that we saw them use as well.
Of course, tomorrow we'll know for sure after the second RAD Tools Product Address about "Freedom Tomorrow".
But first we'll have the Keynote by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft, who will show .NET (and then
the Freedom Tomorrow will be Borland's RAD answer to Anders' keynote, no do
ubt). So, please be patient, I have a feeling the best is yet to come!
Monday - May 20th
OK, we've just had the Keynote by Anders Hejlsberg, which was - in my view - the best thing of BorCon 2002 so far. Anders explained the purpose and benfits of the .NET FrameWork, and then
build a demo using ASP.NET using some Delphi code snippets that were compiled (behind the scenes) using the upcoming Delphi for .NET. It was impressive to see how easy it was to compile Delphi code and integrate it into ASP.NET (even turning it into a Web Service).
At the end of his keynote, Anders even told us (with permission from Borland) that the next version of Delphi (remember, codename Aurora) will be available "in the second half of 2002". It will also contain a preview of Delphi for .NET - which means that Aurora itself is not Delphi for .NET, but Delphi 7 for Windows.
Later in 2003 (the slide showed first half of 2003, but Anders said "second half of 2003"), we will see Delphi for .NET (with the new codename Galileo). This will be the Delphi for .NET (just as we have Delphi for Linux and Delphi for Windows), with a full VCL support for .NET, etc. etc.
Tomorrow will be the "answer" from Borland in the "Freedom Tomorrow" session, which is not to be missed, and will again show Aurora (Delphi 7), Galileo (Delphi for .NET) and Cortez (Kylix 3). So, please be patient, I have a feeling the best is not over yet (and by that I also mean the Return to the Dark Side and Meet The Team sessions tonight).
Today started with a great pre-conference tutorial by Danny Thorpe about the .NET FrameWork (through the eyes of Delphi Developers).
The latest news (from the Borland Community website) includes the Linux Format's Top Stuff Award for Kylix.
The Opening Keynote started out in the Bond theme, with a special role for "gadgets" (wireless or otherwise). We saw David I in the role of James Bond 007 "license to code", with Dale Fuller. Special guests included Blake Stone who showed JBuilder 7 and some of the IDE enhancements (such as errors-on-the fly and refactoring) in JBuilder, so I was right about the announcement of JBuilder 7 this week (which will officially happen during the JBuilder Product Address).
Another special guest was Chuck J. who showed an IDE with Delphi 7 in the titlebar, but then
used the command-line compiler DCCIL to compile it to a .NET Windows Forms application. This application not only ran on Windows with .NET, but also on a gadget (Tablet PC) using .NET.
Another news item concerned the Borland Community website, which will be renamed (and restructured) to Borland Developer Network.
Monday - May 20th
The RAD Product Address was the first of a 2-part story about Freedom. Today was the first part, called "Freedom Today". Tomorrow (tuesday) will be the second part, called Freedom Tomorrow. As a result, I'm afraid today didn't really contain a lot of news, although it did mention two codenames: Cortez and Aurora.
The news items that are worth to repeat concern Kylix 3 (codename: Cortez), which was shown to consist of two different IDEs: one for Delphi and one for C++. We saw Kylix 3 for C++ in action, which seemed to be the Linux edition of C++Builder 6 (just as Kylix 2 is currently the Linux edition of Delphi 6). I wonder if Kylix 3 will contain any improvements on the Delphi side, or if the main "new feature" of Kylix 3 will be the fact that it now contains a C++ IDE.
apart from Kylix, we saw one quote about the future of Delphi as follows: "Aurora will help Delphi developers build applications that are .NET ready." I must say I'm not sure what this means exactly: .NET ready do
esn't sound as if we're talking about .NET deployment. So maybe Aurora (the codename for Delphi 7, for which we saw the IDE) is something different than the DCCIL command-line compiler that we saw them use as well.
Of course, tomorrow we'll know for sure after the second RAD Tools Product Address about "Freedom Tomorrow".
But first we'll have the Keynote by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft, who will show .NET (and then
the Freedom Tomorrow will be Borland's RAD answer to Anders' keynote, no do
ubt). So, please be patient, I have a feeling the best is yet to come!
Monday - May 20th
OK, we've just had the Keynote by Anders Hejlsberg, which was - in my view - the best thing of BorCon 2002 so far. Anders explained the purpose and benfits of the .NET FrameWork, and then
build a demo using ASP.NET using some Delphi code snippets that were compiled (behind the scenes) using the upcoming Delphi for .NET. It was impressive to see how easy it was to compile Delphi code and integrate it into ASP.NET (even turning it into a Web Service).
At the end of his keynote, Anders even told us (with permission from Borland) that the next version of Delphi (remember, codename Aurora) will be available "in the second half of 2002". It will also contain a preview of Delphi for .NET - which means that Aurora itself is not Delphi for .NET, but Delphi 7 for Windows.
Later in 2003 (the slide showed first half of 2003, but Anders said "second half of 2003"), we will see Delphi for .NET (with the new codename Galileo). This will be the Delphi for .NET (just as we have Delphi for Linux and Delphi for Windows), with a full VCL support for .NET, etc. etc.
Tomorrow will be the "answer" from Borland in the "Freedom Tomorrow" session, which is not to be missed, and will again show Aurora (Delphi 7), Galileo (Delphi for .NET) and Cortez (Kylix 3). So, please be patient, I have a feeling the best is not over yet (and by that I also mean the Return to the Dark Side and Meet The Team sessions tonight).