Meetings

Kylix:
A multiplatform
development tool for Linux

Leland Brode

Tuesday September 24th 2002 at 7:00pm
College of DuPage, Building K, Room 161

Abstract

This presentation will be an overview of Kylix, Borland's Linux Development tool, and its relationship to Borland's Delphi product for Windows. Borland's new GNU General Public License version of Kylix is freely available from the Borland website. The Kylix product offers the same type of GUI Integrated Development Environment for Linux which has been available to Windows developers since the introduction of Microsoft's Visual Basic. The discussion will show the types of Linux applications which can be built with Kylix: console, GUI, database, and webserver. The presentation will include an in-depth look at the Kylix GUI building tools, debugging tools, Object hierarchy, and the portability of GUI applications between Windows and Linux.

Speaker Bio

Leland started his computing career as a mainframe assembler programmer at Sears, and mainframe CICS programmer at Trans Union Systems. He worked for several software vendors in technical support and in sales which included 4GL languages and Smalltalk. He has worked with most of the Borland development tools for the past 8 years as a consultant and hobbyist and is intimately familiar with Borland's Cbuilder (C++) and Delphi (Object Pascal), upon which Kylix is based. He is currently the Regional Manager of Open Systems Management (OSM), a vendor of Unix systems management tools.

Getting to the meeting

The next general meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Tuesday, Sept 24th, 2002, at the College of DuPage, building K - room 161.

        College of DuPage
        Building K, Rm 161
        22nd and Lambert
        Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599

Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Take Butterfield West to Lambert Rd,
then Lambert Rd North to 22nd St. Turn left and look for lot 10 on the left side of 22nd St.
Walk to building K, room 161 is on the first floor, on the east side of the building.

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