CodeRage Online Conference Day 3 Agenda

Here are the sessions for Day 3 of CodeRage. There's still time to register now for free and attend more than 25 more sessions.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010

Technical Session #275:00am - 5:45am PDT	VENDOR SHOWCASE: Rubicon Full Text Search   Thinking of adding high-speed search functionality to your custom database application? Find out how using Rubicon can save you development time while providing faster, smarter answers to your end users. Ann Lynnworth - HREF Tools Corp.
5:45am - 6:00am BREAK
Technical Session #286:00am - 6:45am PDT	Gesturing Capabilities for New Application and Current Projects   Vsevolod analyzes gesturing capabilities available in Delphi and C++Builder from the viewpoint of practical effectiveness. Benefits of gesture control are discussed for application, when it’s the key metaphor of UI. In addition, a number of ways to improve usability of the existing projects for DB is considered. Mouse-driven and touch device gesture trigging is compared on the base of test results. Vsevolod Leonov - Embarcadero
6:45am - 7:00am BREAK
Technical Session #297:00am - 7:45am PDT	Software Configuration made Portable, Powerful and Priceless Does your software application require any configuration settings? Does your approach to configuration work on both Windows and Linux? Does your technique allow for variations on development, testing and production machines? If you're not completely happy with how and where you store your settings, attend this session and find out how the free, open source solution known as ZaphodsMap can brighten your day. Ann Lynnworth - HREF Tools Corp.
7:45am - 8:00am BREAK
Technical Session #308:00am - 8:45am PDT	Implementing Artificial Intelligence with Delphi   Artificial intelligence is experiencing a new renaissance due to a rapid development in the areas of feature extraction and classifiers. The session includes and overview of the current state of AI, an introduction to the concept of feature extractor and classifier, and implementing classifiers in Delphi. Boian Mitov - Mitov Software
8:45am - 9:00am BREAK
Technical Session #319:00am - 9:45am PDT	Delphi Tips and Tricks with Marco Cantù and Cary Jensen   In this fun and entertaining presentation, Delphi experts Marco Cantù and Cary Jensen repeat a segment from their popular Tips and Tricks session from their Delphi Developer Days 2010 tour. In this presentation, Marco and Cary share with you four Delphi tips that you can add to your development repertoire. Cary Jensen - Jensen Data Systems, Inc. and Marco Cantu' - Wintech Italia Srl
9:45am - 10:00am BREAK
Technical Session #3210:00am - 10:45am	VENDOR SHOWCASE: Practical Software Test Management with TestRail Most software teams already use bug tracking tools and project management software to track and organize their development efforts. But what about the software tests? Organizing test cases, tracking the testing progress and managing testing resources is critical to ensure great release quality. This presentation introduces the Web-based test management software, TestRail, and explains how software teams benefit from adopting such a tool. Dennis Gurock - Gurock Software
10:45am - 11:00am BREAK
Technical Session #3311:00am - 11:45am PDT	Effectively Using CodeSite Express   CodeSite is an advanced debugging and application logging system that gives developers deeper insight into how their code is executing. With CodeSite, developers are able to locate problems more quickly and ensure their code is running correctly. And now every edition of RAD Studio XE includes CodeSite Express. This session focuses on how to get the most out of CodeSite Express in RAD Studio XE and highlights the differences between CodeSite Express and the full featured CodeSite Studio. Ray Konopka - Raise Software
11:45am - 12:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #3412:00pm - 12:45pm PDT	Developing WPF Applications in Delphi Prism   The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a rich and powerful user interface framework that is quite a bit different from traditional frameworks such as WinForms and the VCL. This session introduces the core concepts involved in developing WPF applications including XAML, dependency properties, routed events, styles and templates, and much more. This session gets you started developing WPF applications in Delphi Prism. Ray Konopka - Raise Software
12:45pm - 1:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #351:00pm - 1:45pm PDT	Embarcadero Quality Maturity ModelThe Embarcadero Quality Maturity Model is used by each Embarcadero product team as a framework to continually improve in terms of testing effectiveness. The quality maturity model has 8 categories to help focus and drive quality improvement. This model has been used very successfully with mature products such as RAD Studio and new products such as AppWave. Success factors include customer satisfaction, time to market, and development productivity. This session discusses the Quality Maturity Model, the Embarcadero QA Roadmap, and goes through some of the initiatives taken by RAD Studio in the past two years to dramatically improve the product quality. Chris Pattinson - Embarcadero
1:45pm - 2:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #362:00pm - 2:45pm PDT	Consuming Web Services with SOAP using Delphi XE   This session presents the ease of building applications to consume Web Services that work with SOAP 1.2 using Delphi. Wecsley Fey - Aquasoft IT
2:45pm - 3:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #373:00pm - 3:45pm PDT	Building a Well Designed Service using Delphi   Building a service in Delphi is not difficult at all. This session starts with the basics and also covers important aspects that should be considered when designing and building the service. Jon Robertson - jmrSoftware
3:45pm - 4:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #384:00pm - 4:45pm PDT	Implementing a Session Pool in DBX DataSnap   Learn how to create a session pool for a DBX DataSnap server and see a demonstration of the benefits provided. Jon Robertson - jmrSoftware
4:45pm - 5:00pm BREAK
Technical Session #395:00pm - 5:45pm PDT	Exploring Ways to be More Efficient in the Delphi IDE using the Open Tools API   In this session we explore some ideas on simplifying and further facilitating our everyday us of the Delphi IDE and get down to the implementation of some of them using Delphi’s Open Tools API. We will not hesitate to put forth some ideas on the crazy side, too – just a bit! Girish Patil - Gnostice Information Technologies