Yesterday, towards the end of the day bandwidth problems at CodeRage were under control. David I has the complete account, where he fails to mention the extra trouble of a corrupted presentation file (the one of the VCL talk). Murphy in action! In any case, the core solution ended up moving the video portion to a hosted service. InterWise is the system I learned to use for my CodeGear hosted online classes, although all of the interaction features (internal chat, requests, multi-people talking) have been disable to save bandwidth.
I suggest you to use InterWise to follow my talk (audio only would make little sense as it is very interactive with few slides) and download the client before the session start, as downloading and installing it takes some time. Also, do not follow audio on one source and video on the other, as they are not in synch.
To complete the picture we have a router failing this morning (a trivial power cord problems) and later when restarted we lost the router configuration, but only for one port. Can you guess which one? 80, of course! That's why this blog has been unreacheable for a few hours this morning.
The Fun Side (Talk, Examples)
Anyway, I mostly wanted to blog to "advertise" my talk at CodeRage, "The Fun Side of Delphi", which is mostly a talk about components writing (including data-bound components and a few in depth features), covering also components editors and a couple of amusing Delphi wizards (the auto-typing buddy and the alphabetic menu). If you've never attended one of the live "Fun Side of Delphi" talks I'm sorry you won't get the complete experience, as it was much more difficult for me to try to be funny without a real audience. I hope you'll enjoy it anyway. And you'll be able to learn a few tricks. The presentation will take place in less than two hours, at 6 a.m. Pacific time, 2 p.m. European time.
Samples Download: Finally, if you want to have a look you can already download the presentation examples at www.marcocantu.com/funside.