BorCon Screen Videos

December 29, 2005

BorCon Screen Videos

I failed to mention that the screen captures taken during my presentations at last month's Borland Developers Conference are online... along with many others.

Videos of my Talks

This year Borland has asked speakers of its Developers Conference 05 to capture the screen (with slides and demos) during their presentations, along with the audio. So, again, here is a list of the (updated) links to the sessions and BoF sessions I gave. The 2 main sessions (VCL for .NET and Delphi Design Patterns) include also a paper and the source code. There is also the source code of the AJAX talk, which a few people asked for (and I still had no time to clean up and publish on my web site). The AJAX talk, however, has no video recording.

Let me point out that the audio recording is often confused/noisy, making some of the talks hard to follow... even for someone who know the content like me. Of course, you can browse the conference archives to find many more videos by other speakers.

More Conference Pictures (including me)

I've already posted the link to my own conference pictures. I've notice a lot of pictures on the conference proceedings material. They include 1-2-3 pictures of me on stage with with Boz (for his keynote) and one in which I'm playing table soccer (was a fun match, and I really like this game) in the so-called arcade night.

posted by marcocantu @ 9:21AM | 3 Comments [0 Pending]

About the VCL.NET BorCon Paper...

I enjoyed a lot reading the BorCon Paper about "VCL
for .NET".

Recently, I have dealt with the porting of a "company
package" (a custom VCL package filled with components
for internal use of my software company).

During the porting process, I have incurred in many of
the pitfalls explained in that paper, so it's good to
see them listed and written down just to compare the
adopted solutions to solve them.

I think that Borland had made a really great work with
VCL.NET!

Now I have a good bunch of components (with editors
and wizards) divided into 4 packages: two packages
(runtime and designtime) for both Win32 and .NET
platforms that include the same (single) source files!
So, I can port any existing corporate application from
Win32 to .NET and back, or use my handmade and beloved
components to produce "fresh" .NET application (if
someone ask me that) in a better way than WinForms
does (due to limitations and - in my opinion -
poorness of this library: no Data Modules, no cross
module reference, no ActionList, ...).

Thanks to OOP and polymorphism, I kept the code as
clean as possible without cluttering it with tons of
{$IFDEF} declarations; I think this makes easy to
search, modify and expand the code or implement new
platform specific components and controls.

Seeing them in action on two completely different
platform, from a native and unmanaged one to a garbage
collected managed one, is really a pleasure! :-)

I am sure I'll blog about my experience as soon as
possible to let more people know about what can be
done (or not) using VCL.NET, which is often being
underestimated and simply considered the "dark side of
VCL (Win32)".

Happy new year Marco!

  Marco Breveglieri.

Comment by Marco Breveglieri [http://www.marco.breveglieri.name] on December 29, 17:51