We had a great turn out last night and a great presentation from IBM/Rational. Thanks to Clark, Ingrid and Pete for their time. From those of you who didn't make it we got an overview of the Rational Unified Process (which is really cool) and got a preview of the Atlantic release of Rational's suite that is due out later this month. Some really cool stuff.
Since we didn't have time to get to our reading we will cover chapters 5 - 8 next month.
Also on tap next month we have Chris with a presentation on SharpDevelop, the open source C# IDE. He will give us an overview and then provide some contrasts with other C# tools.
Time permitting I have a few other product demos to share. Should be a great meeting. We will see you all there.
Since we didn't get time to cover news I thought I would give you a few links to check into. If you have other news to share with the group then please email me, the group or make a list for next month.
Delphi 2005 Released
You can pre-order. It has been released to manufacturing. This version is an update to both .NET and Win32 development, and includes full C# support, as well as limited support for other .NET languages. This is the biggest improvement since the release of Delphi 1.
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
Uses XHTML, CSS and JavaScript to replace PowerPoint. Works in Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape and Internet Explorer. Designed to be easy to setup and even easier to view, all while being completely standards compliant.
ASM to IL compiler
Now you can write ASP.NET (or other .NET applications) in i386 ASM! Now you can put those assembly language skills to use on the new .NET platform.
Google Desktop released (beta)
Allows you to search your computer using Google. Only supports Internet Explorer for some odd reason.
Borland Conference 2004 Blogs
Erwien Saputra compiled an impressive list of blog entries that were created during BorCon, about BorCon proceedings. It's not as good as being there, but it's still pretty good! Includes posts and photos by yours truly.
30th Anniversary of Pascal symposium (Oct 22nd)
Hard to believe it has been that long!
The FAQs on FAQs
Tools and techniques for building and maintaining FAQs
Delphi Informant Complete Works CD-ROM
All 10 years, plus some unpublished works.
Delphi Algorythems and Data Structures to be re-released
One of the better Delphi books is being re-released by the author via print on demand.
C# is going to get Edit and Continue -- just like VB 6.
In all honesty this is pretty cool. Can't wait for Delphi to have it in 2006.
Check your HTTP traffic with Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem.
(Thanks Rich!)
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