Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.

The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

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Carry a portable Linux version with you on a USB flash pen drive. Bring your portable desktop with you wherever you go.

USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating system on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb. This portable Linux version can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device, allowing you to bring your operating system, desktop, applications, files, e-mail, personal settings, favorites and more with you. It’s like having your own personal operating system you can carry in your pocket.

Official Delphi and C++Builder Roadmap from Codegear.

Lots here!  C++Builder TV is part of CodeGear's developer network. Contains both audios and videos.

Here you will find blogs from David I, Nick Hodges (Delphi Product Manager), and many other notable Delphi enthusiasts.

Official Delphi and C++Builder Roadmap from Codegear.

Lots here!  Delphi TV is part of CodeGear's developer network. Contains both audios and videos.

By Scott Wiltamuth and Anders Hejlsberg

This document describes the syntax, semantics, and design of the C# programming language.

Microsoft portal site for the ASP.NET development community.

Corel products including newsgroups for the following: Paradox, ObjectPAL, Paradox and the Web, and Paradox FAQ. Also check out the following non-Corel newsgroups: comp.databases.Paradox. TheDBCommunity.com offers a newsgroup listing page.

Paradox 11 with SP2 applied ships with WordPerfect Office X3 Professional Edition. There are two ways to get the current Paradox, buy the WPO Pro Edition (X2, X3, etc.) or buy a license directly from Corel.

System requirements

	Windows® Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business 32 bit and Business 64 bit Edition with latest SP and Critical Updates)*, Windows® XP (Home, Media or Professional Edition with latest SP and Critical Updates), Windows® 2000 (with latest Critical Updates) or Windows® 98 SE (with latest Critical Updates)
	128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
	466 MHZ (Pentium® III or equivalent processor recommended)
	450 MB hard disk space for minimum installation
	Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor with 800 x 600 or greater resolution
	CD-ROM drive
	Mouse or Tablet

*Paradox and the SDK (software development kit), included in the Professional Edition, will be updated for Windows® Vista at a later date.

www.dbforums.com offers support for a variety of databases including Corel Paradox.

Maintained by Steven Green. This link takes you directly to his used Paradox titles where you can buy older versions of Paradox.

Documents include a Paradox bugslist, list of Paradox versions and Service Pack downloads, Error messages explained and more.This site is in Swedish but there are a couple of documents that are in English.

Maintained by Lance Leonard and contains a wealth of information. I remember Lance from back when I worked at Borland in the mid-90s. His website covers Paradox, Delphi, and other technologies.

The http://info.borland.com/devsupport/bde/ no longer exists. Use the above link instead.

Borland's BDE download page. Another good resource is Borland's BDE Utilities and Updates page.

Home of ChimneySweep, "the" replacement for Table Repair for those that need to automate the repair of multiple paradox tables. Here at Prestwood Software we have recommended ChimneySweep many times.

Maintained by Mark Bannister. A compilation of rules and tips scoured from the Paradox Community.

Want to run Paradox for DOS in full screen mode? Good summary of this issue with 3 work-arounds. It seems it's better just to get used to looking at Paradox for DOS in a Window. The default font size for DOS apps is pretty small and you get a small Window on most monitors because monitors these days have much higher resolution. Increasing it to 10x18 on my Vista notebook made for a nice Paradox for DOS experience.

Microsoft link addressing this issue...
Some 16-bit DOS-based Programs and the Command Prompt will not run in full-screen mode in Windows Vista

• KB926657

Our Prestwood Programmer Community page that contains links to varioius Paradox for Linux resources. Part of our Linux Group.

WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux

Mike Prestwood Chapter Contributions

ISBN: 0-07-212238-2
Mike Prestwood contributed four chapters to this book and although his contribution was 15% of the book, he did not receive author credit. Mike is briefly acknowledged in the Acknowledgments on page XXI as writing "most" of the Paradox material (he actually wrote all of the Paradox material).

• Linux Book Paradox Knowledge Base

Forward by Michael Cowpland

I think it is interesting to read the words Dr. Cowpland wrote back in 1999 and his excitement about supporting Linux. Too bad the financial bubble burst and he couldn't follow though.

Forward from book...

Very popular ASP Classic and now ASP.Net website.

You should be aware of the benefits of using PNG images. This short article is a great overview. Here at Prestwood we use and recommend using PNGs, GIFs, and JPGS.

The time of avoiding the PNG format because of compatiblity with older browsers is now over.

Provides browser statistics including most common browsers, operating systems, display resolutions, etc. Information includes a brief historical overview of each and contains current information on browsers. This is a great resource for determining what browsers to design for, test on, as well as determining what resolutions, color depths, etc.

Free video tutorials by Mark Dexter.

Lots here!  JBuilder TV is part of CodeGear's developer network. Contains both audios and videos.

Hear David I discuss software development on a nationally syndicated radio show. I posted this to the PHP group because he focused a bit on Delphi for PHP and PHP in general.

Overview and introduction by Nick Hodges (Delphi for PHP product manager).

What's new with Delphi for PHP 2.0 by Nick Hodges (Delphi for PHP product manager).

Great message board software (PHP to MySQL). We used the UBB perl version from 2000 through 2005 on www.PrestwoodBoards.com.

Includes:

Unlimited Forums Integrated Portal Integrated Photo Gallery (UBB.Gallery) Database Backend Fully Templated RSS Syndication of content Unlimited Subforums CAPTCHA* many more!
* CAPTCHA requires GD2 with FreeType to be available to PHP, or ImageMagick 6.

Sacramento Visual Studio.Net Usergroup

The Sacramento Visual Studio Users group is no charge resource for Visual Studio developers in the greater Sacramento area.

http://www.sacvsug.org/ No longer active. Go to SacNetUG.org instead.

Like our community, they cover many databases and languages. The focus of this website is on databases - both desktop and server.

This page is a reference of the various Microsoft Certifications available to developers.

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and to distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise in the various Microsoft technologies with which they work.
• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - The Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credentials distinguish you as an expert Windows Application Developer, Web Application Developer, or Enterprise Applications Developer.  These credentials demonstrate that you can build rich applications that target a variety of platforms using .NET Framework 2.0.
• Microsoft Certified Architect Program - Microsoft Certified Architect Program targets practicing solutions architects and infrastructure architects who successfully apply frameworks and methodologies to create an architecture through the entire IT lifecycle.
• Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant - The Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC) credential recognizes MCTs whose job roles have grown to include frequent consultative engagements with customers. These MCTs are experts in designing and delivering customized learning solutions.
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrators - Microsoft Certified Database Administrators (MCDBA) design, implement, and administer Microsoft SQL Server Databases.
• Microsoft Certified Trainer - Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) are qualified instructors certified by Microsoft to deliver Microsoft training coursesto IT professionals and developers.
• Microsoft Certified Application Developers - Microsoft Certified Application Developers (MCAD) use Microsoft technologies to develop and maintain department-level applications, components, Web or desktop clients, or back-end data services.
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developers - Microsoft Certified Solution Developers (MCSD) design and develop leading-edge business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, platforms, and the Windows architecture.

Lots here!  MySQL has made available on-demand web seminars. They are recorded replays of our their live more popular web seminars and cover a wide range of topics. You will have to register but well worth it if you use MySQL.

Maintained by Bill Todd. The Database Group specialized in Delphi & Interbase. In the past, Bill Todd was a Paradox guru and has authored many articles on Paradox, Delphi, and Interbase and co-authored several books. He was a consistent presenter at the various BorCons and a frequent contributer to the Paradox Informant and Delphi Informant.

Although Bill speciales in several areas, I posted this link to the Interbase topic because my belief is that Bill specializes in Interbase a bit more than the other areas.

Lots here!  Interbase TV is part of CodeGear's developer network. Contains both audios and videos.

Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer - it couldn't be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, and virtually any other printable file type.

• Completely FREE PDF Converter - not just a trial version.
• Print to PDF from virtually any Windows application.
• Create PDF output optmized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.
• No annoying pop-up ads, no registration requirement - no catch!
• High-quality, easy to use PDF creator for all users.
• New! Ability to merge PDF files upon conversion.
• New! Now supports Windows Vista.

This is the PDF creating tool we use here at Prestwood software!

Enter IP address to test your SMTP server for open relay. If you have an open relay, your SMTP server will be black listed. You can ping your domain to retrieve the IP.

Also...

• MXToolbox.com - Super Tool. Another great email test site.
• WebsitePulse.com - Blacklist test. Test if you your SMTP server is on any of the major blacklists.

Software that allows you to burn a .ISO image to CD on Windows XP or Vista and to DVD on Vista. Free and very easy to use (right click on image and select Copy Image to CD.

There are several programs that allow you to mount an ISO image file and this free one seems to work well on Windows XP and Vista. CloneDrive also supports other common image formats such as BIN, CCD, etc.

Self-publishing website. Publish your own books at a reasonable price. Free to publish and no setup fees.

The Object Modeling Group (OMG) controls the UML specification. The Unified Modeling Language - UML - is OMG's most-used specification, and a very popular way to model not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.

UML is a modeling language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a system-intensive process. This guide introduces you to the 9 standard diagrams in the UML 1.4 specification. These diagrams can be divided into two groups: Structural diagrams, which model the organization of the solution, and Behavioral diagrams, which model the functionality of the solution.

Semi-official home page for UML. Includes the UML specification.

Have you download the UML 2.0 specification yet? If not, why?

• Just do-it! -- http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/modeling_spec_catalog.htm#UML

Lou Dobbs exposed how the U.S. Department of Labor is reserving over 50,000 U.S. jobs for foreign workers. Kim Berry of the Programmers Guild spoke on behalf of U.S. computer of U.S. computer programmers.

Keep abreast of what's taking place in the world of Microsoft Office Access directly from the members of the Access Team.

Microsoft's official Access home page.

Microsoft's official Access newsgroup.

This is our proper netiquette page. You are welcome to use it for your website. You can link to it or copy the content over to your website. If you copy it, you will most likely want to update it a bit as it's pretty specific to our website.

This is our community rules and disclaimers page. You are welcome to use it for your website. You will most likely want to update it a bit as it's pretty specific to our website.

This is our security and privacy policy. You are welcome to use it for your website. You will most likely want to update it a bit as it's pretty specific to our website.

The obvious differences between Delphi Prism and C# are additional features in the Delphi Feature Pack (Blackfish SQL etc.) and the Object Pascal based syntax, which are very attractive for developers skilled in Delphi for Win32, for example. However, the compiler adds a wide range of extemely useful enhancements as well.

This page provides a summary of Delphi Prism syntax differences for customers familiar with Win32 Delphi.

This wiki is provided as a central live source of information about Delphi Prism and will be updated in an ongoing process.

This page provides an overview of basic language incompatibilities between the Delphi for Win32 and Delphi Prism languages. The focus here is to list language features of Delphi that do not exist in the same form or syntax for Delphi Prism, making it easy for Delphi developers to find the appropriate equivalent syntax or otherwise work around the difference. The goal is not to list new features present in Delphi Prism that do not exist in Delphi, as this would exceed the scope of this page.

Comprehensive introduction by Christian Stelzmann.