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Time

Topic

Speaker

0700 - 0715

Early Registration

0715 - 0830

C# for Delphi developers

Glenn Stephens

0830 - 0900

Late Registration

0900 - 1030

.NET Fundamentals

Danny Thorpe

1030 - 1045

Break

1045 - 1215

Component Writing in Delphi 8

Steve Teixeira

1215 - 1345

Lunch and Vendor Showcase

1345 - 1515

ASP .NET Development in Delphi 8

Charlie Calvert

1515 - 1530

Break

1530 - 1700

.NET Remoting in Delphi 8

Lino Tadros

1700 - 1900

Free time

1900

Conference Dinner, including prize draw

Everyone!

0715 - 0830

Porting to .NET - beyond VCL for .NET

Malcolm Groves

0830 - 0900

Break

0900 - 1030

Language and Compiler features in Delphi 8

Danny Thorpe

1030 - 1045

Break

1045 - 1215

ADO .NET and BDP in Delphi 8

Lino Tadros

1215 - 1345

Lunch and Vendor Showcase

1345 - 1515

Writing secure code in Delphi 8

Steve Teixeira

1515 - 1530

Break

1530 - 1700

Web services development in Delphi 8

Charlie Calvert

Sydney

Melbourne

Venue

Wesley Conference Centre,
220 Pitt Street Sydney
Download CBD Parking info here

John Scott Meeting House,
La Trobe University, Bundoora
Parking at car park no. 7 is $3.00 per day, by meter.

Dates

Tuesday 27 April,
Wednesday 28 April

Thursday 29 April,
Friday 30 April

Lino Tadros
Mr. Alain ("Lino") Tadros is President and CEO of Falafel Software, a software development consultancy based in Silcon Valley but with significant clients around the world. He is a former software engineer in Borland's Delphi and C++ language groups. He is recognized internationally for his expertise in the areas of .NET, COM, XML, SOAP and Internet development and has published many articles on software development. He is a Borland Certified Developer & Trainer on Delphi, C++ Builder, Kylix, and JBuilder and was honored with Borland's prestigious "Trainer of the Year" award at BorCon in 2002. Well known to the Australian Delphi community after his barnstorming .NET workshop, four cities in one week in November 2003.

Steve Teixeira
Steve is Chief Technology Officer at Falafel Software. Before that he held the position of Director of Product Architecture at Zone Labs, a leading creator of Internet security solutions. As a research and development software engineer at Borland, Mr. Teixeira was deeply involved in the development of Delphi and C++Builder. He is the best-selling author of five award-winning books and numerous magazine articles on software development, and his writings are distributed worldwide in more than a dozen languages. Mr. Teixeira is also frequent speaker at industry conferences and events worldwide.

Charlie Calvert
Charlie is best known to Australian Delphi programmers for the excellent 'Delphi n Unleashed' books, plus his appearances at Borcon. Other books written by Charlie include Learn JBuilder, C++Builder 3 Unleashed, Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days, Teach Yourself Windows Programming, Turbo Pascal Programming 101, plus he was a contributing author of CBuilder 4 Unleashed. Quite an output! Charlie has spoken on technical subjects such as Delphi, C++ and Java at many conferences ranging from Europe to the Far East, including Australia, of course. He is currently Master Consultant with Falafel Software.

Danny Thorpe
Danny is the Delphi Compiler Architect and .NET Team Lead at Borland. He is well known to Australian Delphi programmers through through his regular Borcon appearances in Australia and abroad, online articles, and his book 'Delphi Component Design'. Danny was a participant in the creation of Delphi, a co-founder of the Kylix project, and founder and ongoing team lead of the Delphi for .NET project. Danny is a member of Falafel Software's Technical Advisory Board.

Malcolm Groves
Malcolm is Borland's Regional Product Director for Asia Pacific, based in Sydney. Prior to this current stint with Borland he was the senior consultant with Madrigal Technologies, specialising in distributed technologies and component-based architectures. Malcolm is a regular presenter at Borland, Oracle, Java and Visual Basic conferences in Australia, Europe and the United States, including presentations at every ADUG Autumn Symposium since the first one in 1999. Malcolm also writes articles for developer magazines, including The Delphi Magazine.

Glenn Stephens
Glenn Stephens designs and develops applications for various platforms, and has been programming for over 15 years. He a Borland Certified Consultant, a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and is the author of the Tomes of Kylix – The Linux API. Lately Glenn has been writing articles for IBM’s DB2 Portal on C# and a range of articles for Delphi Informant on Delphi 8 technologies such as ECO/MDA and the Borland Data Providers. Feel free to
contact Glenn at glenn@glennstephens.com.au

Speaker line up is subject to change due to unavoidable circumstances.