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• Google – The Next Wave

  One of the trends to catch my eye this week is Google Wave ; the personal communication and collaboration tool, was announced at the Google I/O conference , which ran from May 27 –28 this year. Wave is an open source platform (built entirely using Google... Posted Jun 01 2009, 07:55 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Community, Evangelism

• Follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men

  Surely, if there were a professional body for evangelists, this would be their motto, because that’s what we do as evangelists, we gather together like minded people and introduce them to the great new technology that we have found. That is why evangelism... Posted Apr 23 2009, 05:17 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: Community, Evangelism

• Come and see (the new) CodeRush and RefactorPro! in Belfast!

  This Friday I’m heading across the Irish Sea for the DDD Belfast conference , where I’ll be speaking on the subject of refactoring . The event itself will be held on Saturday April 4th, when some 250 attendees will make their way to the Belfast Metropolitan... Posted Apr 01 2009, 10:21 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Community, Evangelism, CodeRush

• BASTA – DAY 2

  Wow, did someone declare it WPF day or what? Yesterday I seemed to have demonstrated each of our products at least once, but today it was WPF, WPF and more WPF. Everyone wanted to know about our Grid, Chart, Carousel and NavBar controls. I guess WPF is... Posted Feb 26 2009, 11:31 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Community

• BASTA – Day One

  The first day at BASTA was pretty hectic. Lots off attendees wanting to see what is new from DevExpress; I’m sure I must have run through every demo we have at least once yesterday, so quite an eclectic crowd here in Darmstadt. Interest in WPF controls... Posted Feb 25 2009, 10:28 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Community

• BASTA – The Prologue

  Oliver and I are in Darmstadt, Germany this week for the BASTA spring conference showing off XAF , XPO , our IDE Tools as well as all our components for winforms, webforms, WPF and Silverlight. If you happen to be attending the conference then stop by... Posted Feb 24 2009, 08:47 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Community

• TechEd EMEA TV

  So there we were at TechEd EMEA, Oliver and I, doing our little song and dance and bringing the good news of DevExpress to the people of Europe, when up pops a nice young lady and asks us if we want to be on TV. Well sure, we say, who wouldn’t? Thoughts... Posted Nov 27 2008, 10:36 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Community, XPO, XAF, TechEd

• VBUG Conference Travel Day

  I'm out today, traveling to Reading (airport wifi FTW!). I'm off to the VBUG conference where I'll be talking on the subject of refactoring. If any of our UK customers are also going to the conference, don't forget to say hi. If I get... Posted Nov 03 2008, 11:13 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Community, VBUG

• Gary's in Edinburgh Today!

  Yes I'm in Edinburgh today, firstly for the MSDN event, looking at what's new in Visual Studio SP1. I'll be there making sure our ORM product (XPO) is still ahead of Microsoft's (Entity Framework) :-) You can get full details of the event... Posted Oct 16 2008, 09:47 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: Community, XPO, XAF

• UK MVP Day and Evangelism the “Old Fashioned Way”

  So I’m back from the MVP Open Day, did you miss me? Whadda ya mean no?! LOL. Anyway, on the plane home I was sitting behind a woman from Edinburgh and a gentleman from the US. As they conversed during the journey, it became apparent to them both that... Posted Oct 06 2008, 01:03 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Community

• The Curious Case of the Ketchup and the Missing Booth

  So the BASTA conference wound down with a party and, as with every conference, the organizers tried to give the speakers and exhibitors a gimmicky gift with which to remember the conference by. Now, since the party had a BBQ theme, what better gift that... Posted Sep 30 2008, 02:22 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Community

• BASTA Germany Day 2

  It was another brisk day on the booth yesterday. There was a lot of interest in XAF and XPO, as there was on the first day. However, yesterday also saw a lot of interest in our WPF grid, with many people leaving the booth, after the demo, to go and search... Posted Sep 25 2008, 08:27 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Community, XPO, XAF

• BASTA Germany Day 1

  I am back on the DevExpress booth at the BASTA conference. As I write this Oliver is demo'ng XAF to an eager crowd. I say he's demo'ng XAF, but since it's in German, and I don't speak the language, he could of course be giving them... Posted Sep 24 2008, 08:56 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: Community, XAF

• XAF and XPO in Germany

  Oliver and I are off to the BASTA conference in Germany where we’ll be flying the DevExpress flag. So, as always, if there are any of our customers attending the conference, don’t forget to stop by the booth and say hello – oh, and collect a coveted DevEx... Posted Sep 18 2008, 06:11 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Community, XPO, XAF

• XAF, XPO and the Squeaky Wheel

  I love my granny, as all of us who are fortunate enough still to have one alive do I’m sure. My granny hails from Highland Perthshire and is, as we say in Scotland, of farming stock; that is to say that, before retiring, she worked a farm, as her forebearers... Posted Sep 16 2008, 11:45 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Community, XPO, XAF