The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net 20th September, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith 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 2:45 - 3:05 – Tea/coffee & biscuits 3:05 – 4:05 – Pete’s Home Videos (and Windows Media Centre) Pete Sykes

Agenda 4:05 - 4:10 – Brief fidget break 4:10 - 4:55 – Spreadsheet Components In Applications Steve Wilcox 4:55 - 5:00 – Brief Fidget Break 5:00 - 6:00 – Delphi and OpenGL – an Introduction to 3D Graphics Christopher Gold and Maciek Dakowicz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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