Delphi Code Camp - Day 1

As already blogged, yesterday I held a one-day seminar with Daniel R. Wolf about object-oriented programming and associated techniques. There was no other Delphi session being held at the same time. Starting today, there will be two code camps per day. Go to www.entwickler-akademie.de to get a list of sessions.

We used Delphi 2009 and the crowd was rather pleased with the efficiency, speed and reliability of the new version. There were people still using Delphi 7 and Delphi 2006 and they liked a lot of new features available in the new version.

Today, BASTA - THE .NET conference starts and thus we had the chance to meet up with the speakers in the evening as they already arrived in Mainz. It was a great evening and it was good to catch up with them.

Personally, I used the opportunity to meet and talk to Oliver Sturm and Gary Short from DevExpress in person to talk about XPO and related technologies that deal with Object Relational Mapping.

The funniest fact of the evening was however, that Oliver and me found out that we have been living in the same city in Germany for quite some time… we never met though, even as it is a very small city.

Hopefully, I will be able to deliver some useful development related content soon. I have to reinstall my system as the mainboard of my new system was faulty from the start and it has been exchanged during my vacation. I also got handed a wonderful surprise that one of my additional SATA hard drives has been formatted in the process - I still wonder how to manage to format a hard disk while exchanging the mainboard and reinstalling Windows on the primary SAS disk.

Oh well, I am still on holiday for the next few more days and these things will not be able to spoil the experience.