It appears I am saying my good-bye to two of my old friends. I knew this was coming on both accounts, but the reality is finally here. First of all, I good-bye to Borland, hello to Embarcadero. The people and products will still be there, but it is a new company. I expect this to be a change for the best. Now I need to figure out a way to re-brand all this Borland merchandise I own. . . .
My second old friend I bid farewell to is bsdg.org. I registered the doman name when I took over as president of the Boise Software Developers Group back in 2000. In that time it also became my first blog site, which I found quite enjoyable. At my high point I broke the news about PDC 2005 thanks to an email from the organizer, and that resulted in links from Robert Scoble as well as many others.
As of October 2007 I moved away from Boise, and Chris Brandsma took over as president of BSDG. At one point I debated changing to to the Borland Software Developers Group and keeping the domain name, but Delphi was already dropping the Borland roots at that point. All my old blog posts are still there someplace, but they are hidden behind a wall of cryptic 404 errors provided by the ASP.NET CMS that was recently installed. Rather sad. Maybe I will migrate some of the content here. . . . .