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One of the cool and useful presentations at the recent Australian Delphi User Group (ADUG) Autumn (Spring in the northern hemisphere) Symposium help in Melbourne and Sydney, I sat in on a technical session given by Jason Tolley of ROK Technology. ROK Technology is a privately owned Australian company.  One of their core competencies is building embedded and real time systems. Jason's talk was about how to convert Delphi native code applications so that they run on hardware/software appliances...

Hello from Beijing.  I am at the last stop on a three week application development and database development tour and vacation trip in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China.  While on the trip I have visited with many developers, customers, community leaders, and even a university (Hohai University in Nanjing).  Loads of excitement about the developer tools being part of Embarcadero Technologies (even if it is still harder to pronounce and spell than CodeGear - especially in Japan and China). ...

From the IDG internet news feed: Google's Android mobile platform uses its own virtual machine for Java and not Sun's Java Micro Edition platform.  Google and Sun may Android's virtual machine is named Dalvik.  The article quoted Stefano Mazzocchi, a developer and board member at Apache Labs, who is quoted saying that Sun may not have seen this coming. Seems to me like a strange speculation, because earlier this month, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, congratulated Google, Red Hat,...

From time to time someone asks me what Philippe Kahn is doing.  After he left Borland, Philippe successfully started (and sold) two companies, Starfish Software and LightSurf Technologies.  He is now the CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder (with Sonia Lee) of Fullpower Technologies.  He is also a successful sailboat racer with his Pegasus Racing team. Fullpower Technologies has been in stealth mode for the past few years.  Today, I received an email from Philippe letting me know that Fullpower's we...

Five robotic vehicles have completed the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge desert race today.  The field included 23 autonomous robotic vehicle entries trying to win the $2 million DARPA prize.  Last year no vehicles finished the course, and several had spectacular failures.  The vehicles leave the starting line at time intervals.  The winner is the vehicle that completes the course in the fastest time. The team that finishes the route in the shortest amount of time (within a specified time limit) ...

I just could pass up this new item (probably the most covered techie item this past week). The "Jerk-O-Meter" cell or VOIP (voice over IP) phone software program being developed by MIT researchers. The software analyzes the speaking patterns of the cell phone user and rates the level of involvement in the conversation. Using speech patterns and voice tones, the software rates the level of engagement on a 100 percent scale. If the software detects that you are paying attention to other things whi...

Still on the road visiting with developers.  I have now found my way to Arnhem for the SDC 2005 conference.  At the conference we are going to show a technology preview of Delphi support for the .NET Compact Framework.  Stay tuned for how registered Delphi 2005 customers can get their hands on the preview compiler. The picture above shows a screen capture of a Delphi for .NET Windows Forms application compiled for .NET CF and dowloaded to an HP iPAQ rz 1710 Pocket PC 2003 device that I purcha...