BorCon Unleashed - Saturday (9/11)
Today was a precon BorCon day. I sat in the "Introduction to UML2 Features in Together" tutorial by Karl Frank of Borland (no relation to Frank Borland). It was a good session that highlighted some of the new things in UML 2.0 as well as the forthcoming Together product. Key take aways: Pins, Ports, Activities, and Actions. All of which provided me some ammo for my Monday night session.
While I was in the UML session, I engineered a conceptual application (using Together of course) that I call Conference Multiplicity, because I had a big desire to also be sitting in Danny Thorpe's "Get Ready for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0" discussion, which was being conducted at the same time. Fortunantely, Nick Hodges has provided a stack dump for us on what Danny shared.
So after lunch, I gave a test run of my Conference Multiplicity app and attended both Alain Tadros' talk titled "ASP.NET: Fasten your Seat Belt!" and Robert Love's "XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework" presentation. As always, I enjoyed hearing Alain's jabs, tips and wit. Incidentally he's got a web site geared for the Borland development community called CodeFez – just released. Be sure to check it out in the near future.
Halfway through Alain's talk I moved over to Robert's talk on XML (thus the use of my Conference Multiplicity app). Using Delphi, Robert showed how XMLWriter and XMLDocument can be used to manage XML documents plus some on XML Serialization and XSLT. Most of it was pretty routine stuff, but still useful for any modern day developer.
During lunch I bumped into David I. (sorry for the name dropping). We had a good chat about software design and unique ways for getting audience participation. For those curious, Fear Factor was one consideration – but not for this BorCon. I’m going to see how my Trading Spaces approach works on Monday night. As always, David I was engaging and friendly. Just talking with him gets the old BorCon excitement rolling again. My biggest curiosity for this BorCon, however, is hearing something (anything) regarding C++. On that, I guess we’ll find out by Tuesday night!!!!
I’ll report again tomorrow on all the happenings. Hopefully I can get my Conference Multiplicity app upgraded to bridge wirelessly between the convention center and my hotel, so I can catch the Redskins game from the hotel and sit in both John Kasters’ session on “ALM for .NET” and Tom Gullion’s session on “MDA using Together” in the morning. More tomorrow!!!
Prologue - On this 3rd anniversary of 9-11 my thoughts and prayers go out to the soldiers fighting the war on terror, and certainly the families who have been victims of terror.
While I was in the UML session, I engineered a conceptual application (using Together of course) that I call Conference Multiplicity, because I had a big desire to also be sitting in Danny Thorpe's "Get Ready for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0" discussion, which was being conducted at the same time. Fortunantely, Nick Hodges has provided a stack dump for us on what Danny shared.
So after lunch, I gave a test run of my Conference Multiplicity app and attended both Alain Tadros' talk titled "ASP.NET: Fasten your Seat Belt!" and Robert Love's "XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework" presentation. As always, I enjoyed hearing Alain's jabs, tips and wit. Incidentally he's got a web site geared for the Borland development community called CodeFez – just released. Be sure to check it out in the near future.
Halfway through Alain's talk I moved over to Robert's talk on XML (thus the use of my Conference Multiplicity app). Using Delphi, Robert showed how XMLWriter and XMLDocument can be used to manage XML documents plus some on XML Serialization and XSLT. Most of it was pretty routine stuff, but still useful for any modern day developer.
During lunch I bumped into David I. (sorry for the name dropping). We had a good chat about software design and unique ways for getting audience participation. For those curious, Fear Factor was one consideration – but not for this BorCon. I’m going to see how my Trading Spaces approach works on Monday night. As always, David I was engaging and friendly. Just talking with him gets the old BorCon excitement rolling again. My biggest curiosity for this BorCon, however, is hearing something (anything) regarding C++. On that, I guess we’ll find out by Tuesday night!!!!
I’ll report again tomorrow on all the happenings. Hopefully I can get my Conference Multiplicity app upgraded to bridge wirelessly between the convention center and my hotel, so I can catch the Redskins game from the hotel and sit in both John Kasters’ session on “ALM for .NET” and Tom Gullion’s session on “MDA using Together” in the morning. More tomorrow!!!
Prologue - On this 3rd anniversary of 9-11 my thoughts and prayers go out to the soldiers fighting the war on terror, and certainly the families who have been victims of terror.
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