The Developers Group http:www.richplum.net

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• The Developers Group http//www.richplum.net

20th September, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 100 - 200 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 200 - 245 How To Write User
  Documentation Mike Unwalla
• 245 - 305 Tea/coffee biscuits
• 305 405 Petes Home Videos (and
  Windows Media Centre) Pete Sykes

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Agenda

• 405 - 410 Brief fidget break
• 410 - 455 Spreadsheet Components In
  Applications Steve Wilcox
• 455 - 500 Brief Fidget Break
• 500 - 600 Delphi and OpenGL an
  Introduction to 3D Graphics Christopher
  Gold and Maciek Dakowicz

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News

• 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13th
  July
• Many Delphi luminaries involved
• Official recordings of all sessions available at
• http//bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33109,00.ht
  ml

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News

• BDNRadio 3 channels available around the
  clock
• All interviews from 24 Hours of Delphi broadcast
  mms//bdntv.borland.com/delphi24hrs
• All Delphi content mms//bdntv.borland.com/delphi
  
• All Java content mms//bdntv.borland.com/java

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News

• Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology
  Preview available now!
• Delphi 2005 registered users area
  http//www.borland.com/products/downloads/registe
  red/download_delphi.html
• Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN
  http//bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33109,00.ht
  ml

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News

• Next meeting on Tuesday, October 17th at
  Microsoft, Reading
• Topics to include
• ECO II
• PocketPC interaction
• RemObjects
• ADO.NET 2
• And more besides
• Full agenda available at
• http//richplum.net/meeting/20051017.pdf

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News

• ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with
  Michael Li
• October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho
• http//www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20051003.pdf

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News

• PDC is over
• However all the slides are onlinehttp//microsof
  tpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx

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News

• The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is
  coming.
• Scheduled for October 22nd
• To be held at Microsoft office, Reading
• To contain 30 minute and 60-75 minute sessions
• http//www.developerday.co.uk

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News

• Windows Longhorn was officially renamed on 22nd
  July to Windows Vista http//msdn.microsoft.com/w
  indowsvista
• Indigo is now called WCF (Windows Communication
  Foundation) http//msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvist
  a/connected
• Avalon is now called WPF (Windows Presentation
  Foundation) http//msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvist
  a/experience Note Longhorn code name not
  original...

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News (Vista cont.)

• The UX (user experience) guidelines are called
  AERO
• Authentic
• Energetic
• Reflective
• Open
• Direct3D10 is now called WGF 2.0 (Windows
  Graphics Foundation 2.0)

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• Subsequent versions of Delphi, starting with
  DeXter, will at last support Microsoft Active
  Accessibility
• ActionBands have had MSAA support added, which
  trickles through to the IDE

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News

• Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch
  date announced as 7th November 2005
• .NET 2.0 (aka Whidbey) will implicitly be
  launched on the same date

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• Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day
  subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and
  SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005.
• https//www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio20
  05

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News

• Altova have released their XML engines (as used
  in XMLSpy et al) for free download
  http//www.altova.com/altovaxml.html
• AltovaXML2005 includes engines for
• XML validating parser
• XSLT 1.0
• XSLT 2.0 (schema-aware)
• XQuery 1.0
• Can be accessed from
• Command line
• COM interfaces
• Java interfaces
• .NET interfaces

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News

• VoIP is clearly big business
• eBay is to buy Skype (http//www.skype.com)
  for2.6 billion (!!!)

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News

• Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact
  database
• In Case of Emergency
• For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE2, ICE3, etc.
• N.B. The recent email that claimed this was a
  spoof was a spoof

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News

• Having a walk outdoors in nice weather makes you
  feel good
• Its a fact!
• http//abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id
  223505page1

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News

• Warning!Wear a hard hat if you are planning on
  going to Oxford

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News