Over the last few weeks Irongut's Delphi Pages has been rewritten to
use HTML 4.01 Strict with CSS. This should provide a more standard look across different browsers
and make maintenance easier. If you spot any major problems please let us know.
I've recently taken over the Mozilla-Delphi Project on mozdev.org.
Current resources include classes that enable you to use Mozilla's JavaScript engine to
provide scripting in your applications. See this new section for more info.
Some articles on Irongut's Delphi Pages are now available in
eBook format, more will follow soon. You can download a free eBook
reader for PalmOS, PocketPC, MacOS, Symbian or Windows from eReader.com.
Borland today announced the launch of Deployment Op-Center, a new
cross-platform infrastructure software management solution. It is designed to help businesses to
control costs, manage change, and increase reliability in their IT operations.
Borland on Thursday beat Wall Street expectations by 2 cents a share
according to its Q4 2003 earnings report. The company reported a net loss of $5.7 million, an
improvement from the Q3 net loss of $12.2 million.
Borland C++BuilderX Review
29-Jan-04
Borland takes its C++Builder rapid application development tool to a
whole new level. Beginners need to exercise caution, but for C++ experts and teams this is surely
the ultimate cross-platform IDE on the market today.
Borland will be presenting Delphi 8 in locations throughout the US to
show you all the reasons why you should make Delphi 8 part of your .NET plans. Subjects covered
will include ECO (Enterprise Core Objects), WinForms, WebForms (ASP.NET), BDP for .NET (Borland
Data Providers), VCL for .NET, IDE features and Compiler/language features.
This white paper introduces the Borland Data Provider for the Microsoft
.NET Framework included in recent Borland RAD tools, such as C#Builder and Delphi 8. BDP is a .NET
data provider implementing the Microsoft .NET Data Provider core interfaces. It provides a set of
CLR components that allow data access from one of the BDP supported databases. BDP also comes with
a rich set of component designers and tools that make database development easier.
ILOG today introduced the industry's first set of C#-based graphics
tools for creating rich Gantt charts for .NET. An extension of the award-winning ILOG Visualization
Suite, ILOG Gantt for .NET targets developers who want to create Gantt charts using a pure .NET
solution and integrates quickly into any .NET application, through Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or
Borland C# Builder, eliminating the need for developers to write extra code.
Learn how Borland JBuilder X and Nokia Developer's Suite 2.0 for
J2ME simplify the process of creating MIDlets. PDF
Finalists Announced for the 14th Annual Jolt Awards
20-Jan-04
CMP Media's Software Development magazine today
announced the 92 finalists for this year's Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity
Awards. The finalists in 14 categories were chosen from more than 300 nominations
by a team of Software Development editors, columnists and industry gurus. Nominations
were submitted from over 10 countries and include 14 open source products. Borland have
been nominated in 3 categories.
Available to download from Borland, IDE Integration packs
contain the nessesary files to compile a Win32 VCL based IDE add-in for either
C#Builder 1 or Delphi 8. They contain the nessesary Win32 Delphi compiler and .dcp
files in order to only build IDE addins.
As
Sun Microsystems readies new releases of it's NetBeans Java software,
Java guru James Gosling weighed in on controversial efforts to create
standard APIs for Java development tools to improve interoperability
between competing vendors' software.
Discusses how to take
a useful Java class, FontChooser, and extend its features even though
the visibility and member access modifiers would ordinarily prevent one
from doing so.
Since
version 7 Delphi has included Rave Reports as the default reporting
solution, replacing Quick Reports. Since they work very differently
many people were confused by the new environment. This is an
introduction for people who haven't worked with Rave yet, and would
like to start.
Review of the three leading RAD web
technologies for Delphi - Express Web
Frameworks from Developer Express, IntraWeb from AtoZed software, and
ASP.NET from Microsoft.
Sometimes
it is nice to know how long a specific piece of code takes to execute.
The Borland IDE actually provides a means to accomplish this using
non-breaking breakpoints and the event log.
The
Borland public statement regarding their membership in the Java
Community Process and decision not to join the recently announced Java
Tools Consortium.
Borland
today announced that its Q4 and year end 2003 teleconference and
simultaneous webcast is scheduled to begin at 14:30 Pacific Time on
Thursday, 29th January 2004.
An
initiative driving interoperability across rival vendors' Java
application development tools has been launched without support from
the two largest Java application development players, Borland and IBM.
The lack of co-operation between the industry's big companies raises
concerns over the possible effectiveness of the venture.
Borland
Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET Framework is available now. More than
half of the Borland customers who are Delphi developers are planning to
move to the .NET Framework within the next year.
