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20 th September, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net. Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com. Agenda. 1:00 - 2:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 2:00 - 2:45 – How To Write User Documentation Mike Unwalla

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The Developers Group richplum

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  1. 20th September, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com

  2. Agenda • 1:00 - 2:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic • 2:00 - 2:45 – How To Write User DocumentationMike Unwalla • 2:45 - 3:05 – Tea/coffee & biscuits • 3:05 – 4:05 – Pete’s Home Videos (and Windows Media Centre)Pete Sykes

  3. Agenda • 4:05 - 4:10 – Brief fidget break • 4:10 - 4:55 – Spreadsheet Components In ApplicationsSteve Wilcox • 4:55 - 5:00 – Brief Fidget Break • 5:00 - 6:00 – Delphi and OpenGL – an Introduction to 3D GraphicsChristopher Gold and Maciek Dakowicz

  4. News • 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13th July • Many Delphi luminaries involved • Official recordings of all sessions available at: • http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33109,00.html

  5. News • BDNRadio – 3 “channels” available around the clock • All interviews from 24 Hours of Delphi broadcast: mms://bdntv.borland.com/delphi24hrs • All Delphi content: mms://bdntv.borland.com/delphi • All Java content: mms://bdntv.borland.com/java

  6. News • Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! • Delphi 2005 registered users area: http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/registered/download_delphi.html • Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33109,00.html

  7. News • Next meeting on Tuesday, October 17th at Microsoft, Reading • Topics to include • ECO II • PocketPC interaction • RemObjects • ADO.NET 2 • And more besides • Full agenda available at: • http://richplum.net/meeting/20051017.pdf

  8. News • ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with Michael Li • October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho • http://www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20051003.pdf

  9. News • PDC is over • However all the slides are online:http://microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx

  10. News • The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is coming. • Scheduled for October 22nd • To be held at Microsoft office, Reading • To contain 30 minute and 60-75 minute sessions • http://www.developerday.co.uk

  11. News • Windows Longhorn* was officially renamed on 22nd July to Windows Vista: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista • Indigo is now called WCF (Windows Communication Foundation): http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/connected • Avalon is now called WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation): http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience*Note: Longhorn code name not original...

  12. News (Vista cont.) • The UX (user experience) guidelines are called AERO: • Authentic • Energetic • Reflective • Open • Direct3D10 is now called WGF 2.0 (Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0)

  13. News • Subsequent versions of Delphi, starting with DeXter, will at last support Microsoft Active Accessibility • ActionBands have had MSAA support added, which trickles through to the IDE

  14. News • Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7th November 2005 • .NET 2.0 (aka Whidbey) will implicitly be launched on the same date

  15. News • Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005. • https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005

  16. News • Altova have released their XML engines (as used in XMLSpy et al) for free download: http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html • AltovaXML2005 includes engines for: • XML validating parser • XSLT 1.0 • XSLT 2.0 (schema-aware) • XQuery 1.0 • Can be accessed from: • Command line • COM interfaces • Java interfaces • .NET interfaces

  17. News • VoIP is clearly big business • eBay is to buy Skype (http://www.skype.com) for$2.6 billion (!!!)

  18. News • Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact database • In Case of Emergency • For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE2, ICE3, etc. • N.B. The recent email that claimed this was a spoof was a spoof

  19. News • Having a walk outdoors in nice weather makes you feel good • It’s a fact! • http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=223505&page=1

  20. News • Warning!Wear a hard hat if you are planning on going to Oxford

  21. News

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