April 2001 Meeting

DATE: April 23, 2001 TIME: 6:00pm - 8:00pm TOPIC: Local Company ThoughtShare Communications Uses Borland Tools to Write Their Applications The Vancouver Delphi Developers Association is pleased to present Bradley MacDonald, Product Manager and George Myers, CTO of ThoughtShare Communications. ThoughtShare offers cost-effective, quick-to-deploy and easy-to-use Knowledge Management solutions. Whether you are a mid-market enterprise or a department of a large company, their Knowledge Management solutions will give you a solid and fast return on investment. Don't miss this event! You might even win some free stuff!

Bradley MacDonald will cover some of the work that ThoughtShare has done with interfacing to the Browsers, and how they have used Delphi for the client authoring tool and Java for the server side. He will provide in-depth knowledge on PlanBee, ThoughShare's desktop application that works alongside your browser and provides the most effective way to package a collection of Web pages, attachments and personal notes into an easy-to-use visual file format called a buzPAK.

Topics to be covered on PlanBee:

PlanBee, the client authoring tool written in Delphi
Description of PlanBee - what it does and how it does it
Demo of the program
Interfacing to the Browser (both IE and NetScape)
Pros and cons
Components used in the project and why they were useful
Exception Magic
Drag and Drop suite (Ander Melanders)
WP Tools
Turbo Power's XML parsing and DOM classes
Content Capture from IE
Demo of PlanBee fully capturing a web page - including frames, forms and form data.

Project Manager, Bradley MacDonald was the development team lead, for ThoughtShare's PlanBee initial releases and is now the Product Manger for both PlanBee, and the bZone server suite. He has over 12 years experience in the field of computing, application and system design. Mr. MacDonald has worked with Delphi since the release of 1.0, and has written various articles for Delphi Informant magazine. He can be reached via email at: Brad@Thoughtshare.com Chief Technology Officer, George Myers is responsible for the overall design and development of the company's core technologies, and leads the ThoughtShare product development team. He has more than 18 years experience in systems software development. He has managed all phases of project life cycle development, including client-server application specification, design, testing, implementation, support, and documentation, and quality assurance.