Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

We got some delays, because two team members got sick over the last week – but finally here are the details for the Call For Papers:

With the greatest pleasure S&S Media announces today: Delphi Live! – The Delphi Developer Conference from May 13 to 15 2009 in San Jose – just around the corner of Delphi’s birthplace.

It has been quite a while, that there has been a "live" event for Delphi developers and hence we are looking as forward to it as probably you do.

If you want to speak at DelphiLive! and have any interesting topic that would like to present, then please feel invited to submit an abstract of your proposed session(s).

Please submit your proposals until February 20, 2009 at delphilive.entwickler.com

The site above is for speakers only. Please do not try to register for the conference as attendee there!

The following tracks are currently planned:

• Architecture / Design
• OOP
• Database
• IDE, Tools & Components
• Core Development
• Basics / Fundamentals
• Native Delphi
• Delphi Prism
• Delphi for PHP
• Delphi & .NET
• Delphi & Web
• Delphi & Ruby on Rails

All (timely) submitted papers will be reviewed by the DelphiLive! Advisory Board. Please note that we have limited session slots only, so we will have to select. If your session will not be selected, please do not take this personally!

Hint: submitting at least 2 sessions may increase your chance to be selected!

The Advisory Board

• Christine Ellis
• Masoud Kamali
• Olaf Monien
• Anders Ohlson

If you have any questions, then just use the comment feature on this blog.

Please stay tuned for the official DelphiLive Website!

Update: Sessions are online and registration is open now: www.delphilive.com

As an Advisory Board member I am proud to post this official pre-announcement for the next, long awaited physical Delphi conference.

Where: San Jose, CA, USA
When: May 13th – 16th 2009
Who: All Delphi developers, let it be Delphi Win 32, Delphi Prism or Delphi for PHP ones.

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A while ago a couple of users started reporting odd Access Violations when running a Project in Delphi 2007 for the first time. It turned out that this was caused by some Logitech WebCam drivers. See Nick Hodges blog on this topic.

To make it clear: it’s not just Delphi users reporting issues with these Logitech drivers, some other applications seem to affected as well. Google for lvprcinj.dll – I find the word “injection” in that dll pretty scary btw.

Apparently even with the latest Logitech drivers (11.1.0.2030 at the time of writing this), this error is still there (or maybe there again) and affects Delphi 2009 too.

So if you experience this odd AV as demonstrated on Nick’s blog, then you have terminate lvprcsrv.exe at least.