Hotfix!! Get yer Hotfix, here!

Hot on the heals of the Turbo product release, we've just now signed-off a rollup of the previous BDS2006 hotfixes 1-6, except 2 and have now added three previously unreleased hotfixes 7-9!  This hotfix rollup will work for all BDS2006 Update 2 editions and all the Turbo releases, all languages.  You'll be able to download it on TurboExplorer.com soon, and it should be up on CodeCentral here.  I'll update this posting as more sites come online.  It will be, ahem... interesting to note that the Borland download site will probably take a little longer to come online than the sites under DTG's more direct control...

Update: There's now an article on BDN and the TurboExplorer.com site has been updated.

Update: The following is the MD5 hash for BDS2006HotfixRollup.exe: 4FE838F389ABB7AD0D477F03192F5330  If this doesn't match what you've downloaded, then you've gotten a corrupted version.  Again, this is for the above mentioned executable, not the .zip or any other download container it may be in.  There are many various MD5 hash generators/checkers available so you can verify the above hash code.

Update: You can download just the .exe here.

TurboMan, The Game.

In case you missed it, Up-and-comer, David Lock has just posted the source to his TurboMan game in CodeCentral.  Be sure to point it out to all those young budding programmers that you know out there that want to get starting in game writing.  So, let the Middle/Junior/High School programming teachers know about this and pass it along to their students.

Will the real "DevCo" please stand up.

While walking back from the local Japanese/Sushi resturant for lunch, this truck just showed up here at the Scotts Valley campus.  Please take note of the name stamped on the side.  Why is it here?  Well, housed in that large concrete structure on the other side of the truck is a huge diesel generator.  My guess is that this truck is here to fill the fuel tanks.  Anyway, I just thought it was funny and figured I'd share it.  Oh, and as you can guess from the picture, it is a beautiful, hot, sunny, summer day out there.

Treating your developers right...

This is uhmmm... for the benefit of "someone" who I know tends to read this blog.  I also know, many of you already know all of this and have experienced it first hand, so please bear with me for a moment.  For the record, we developers here at the Developer Tools Group at Borland, do have a lot of private offices.  The reasons seem to be very clear from this "Joel on Software" article.

It's T-Day!

In case you haven't heard yet..., it's T-Day!  The Turbo Explorer and Turbo Professional products are now available for download.  Along with the availability of these exciting new products, there's a wealth of information emerging out there to assist new and long-time programmers in getting up to speed with the products.  Especially for Turbo Delphi.  For instance, you can visit Nick Hodges blog for his series of "30 Camtasias in 30 days."  Just posted moments ago, Huw Collingbourne of Bitwise Magazine has also gotten into the act with these articles, Introduction to Delphi, Learn to Program Delphi Part One, and Delphi Study Guide.  Finally, Neil J. Rubenking has written this review of Turbo Delphi.  4.5 out of 5.

Shhhh.... It's vewy, vewy, qwiet awound here... eheheheheh!

OK.. OK.. OK.. I know I've not been as active lately on blogging.  I've been kinda waiting for certain, ahem, events to go down so I'd be able to really talk about that big bag of beans that just got spilled.  However, there's been some non-spin-off related news that I should really point out.  Our very own David Lock has been working on a little side project to create a TurboMan video game!  You can read about it on his blog starting with this post.  Also, unless you've been under a rock for the last few weeks, Nick Hodges has been doing some excellent introductory videos using the soon to be released Turbo Delphi product.  So stay tuned to the Turbo Explorer site and David's and Nick's blogs for some fun and exciting things.  I'll try to keep folks up to date on anything that may be happening surrounding the fact that you "may have heard that Borland is planning on divesting itself of the Developer Tools Group."  I guess you can count this as the calm before the storm?

Some really good press amidst all the Turbo-mania...

This article on FTPOnline, Borland Brings Back Turbo has a very insightful statement:

"For those who might have been worried that Borland's spin-off of the developer tools to a separate company (whose name is still yet to be announced) might herald a sunset of minimum additional development and maximum milking of customers, this announcement should be a welcome relief. This is clearly a long-term strategy. Borland (and the successor company for the developer tools) is not milking the installed base, but rather trying to regrow the community. It is a bold and risky strategy in this era of commodity developer tools, but perhaps the best alternative for Borland and the successor developer tools company to remain relevant."

Bold and risky, indeed.

The Adventures of TurboMan - Part 1

Watch the new adventures of TurboMan!

More Turbo stuff...

Go Digg this article

ComputerWorld Australia: Borland Revives 'Turbo' for developer tools

Long-time Turbo Pascal and Delphi supporter, columnist, and book author, Neil J. Rubenking: New Borland Line Salutes Turbo Pascal Spirit

The Official Press Release: Borland's Developer Tools Group Announces Plans to Rev Up Classic Turbo(tm)

Update 1:

Even Slashdot is getting into the fray: Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video (Remember this is Slashdot we're talking about here.. so there is bound to be some... ahem... rather clueless and uninformed comments ;-)

Update 2:

Now The Register has their entry in the Turbo-mania thing: Borland enlists Turboman for Windows tools

They're baaaack...

Yep.  The rumors are actually true.  There will be "Turbo" versions of Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++, and C#.  You can read some information here about it:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2000205,00.asp

and here:

http://www.turboexplorer.com

Yes, there will be free versions of the Turbo's.  They're the Explorer editions.  Go to turboexplorer.com to get information and news about the availability of these editions, along with tutorials, games and contests.