Congratulations! You've reached Julian M Bucknall's personal web site and blog. In case you haven't
heard of said Julian M Bucknall, (a) where have you been, and (b) you're in the company of billions,
but I'm trying to rectify the fact ;-). I'm essentially
a programmer by trade,
an actor by ambition, and
a computer scientist by osmosis.
This site fulfills two purposes:
Although I'll be uploading my posts in a blog, do note that I am not using a "proper" blogging tool. Hence there is no way to comment on my articles directly. However, if you subscribe to my RSS feed, you'll get an email link with every post. If you make a valid point, I'll certainly update the post to reflect it. One day, I promise, I'll get a real blogging tool but only once the comment spam problem has been solved to a greater degree than it is now.
In antiquity, I used to program in FORTRAN. I quickly moved to RPG II on the IBM System/34 and then RPG III on the System/38. By my early 30s, I'd graduated to Turbo Pascal on PCs, eventually migrating to the various Delphi incarnations. These days it's different: my main development environment is Visual Studio with C# and using the .NET Framework, both for Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications.
Currently I'm Chief Technology Officer at
Developer Express.,
a software company that writes some pretty damn functional components and
tools for .NET and Delphi. I'm responsible for the technology oversight and
vision of the company.
No matter why you came here, I hope you enjoy this web site.
After many years of static HTML pages on my website, today's the day I'm launching my new blog. Yes, Web 2.0 has now been around for many a year, and the Bucknall-meister finally gets round to using ASP.NET in the guise of Graffiti CMS.
So the new place to bookmark is blog.boyet.com, and the new feed to subscribe to is here.
This original website will remain in stasis, with all the action happening on the new blog. See you over there!
Pandora is an internet radio station with a difference. First of all it's free (which seems to negate my blog title). Second it creates a playlist at run-time based on the music you like. Read more...
We're slowly getting released from at least part of our NDA with Embarcadero so that we can talk a little about Delphi 2009, codename Tiburón. Read more...
Today I wrote about education being a primary source for better security (Security is broken when you leave it to end-users) over on my blog at DevExpress. To flesh out my argument a little more, here's a postcard I received just recently. Read more...
I may have mentioned it before, but my most favorite car ever was the Volvo 1800S, and I used to own one in England before I came to the States. Since I don't have one now, although I'm quietly looking, I do the next best thing: I collect the old car dealer brochures for it. Not only for pictures of the car, but for the most fabulous 60s fashion and hair dos. Absolutely amazing, very trendy. Read more...
I've done it, you've done it, if anyone programs for a living I'll bet they've done it. What, exactly? Got some code off the internet to solve a particular problem and used it in your current program. Read more...
Last time I visited our Glendale office I caught what has become my usual flight back to Denver: the 7pm Southwest flight from Burbank, which stops off in Las Vegas for a quick half hour en route. Unfortunately the only direct flight between Burbank and Denver is run by SkyWest on behalf of United and it's just more expensive as well as being on one of those regional jets. LAX, as a destination airport, is just too far away from the office, both in terms of distance and traffic. Read more...
From the scary but true department: I've been recording a whole series of videos for DevExpress. Read more...
Julian has worked for several employers in diverse fields, from banks to software library vendors to the most well-known software vendor of them all. Are you looking to fill a position? Read his résumé...
The best book on algorithms in Delphi.
ON SALE AGAIN!
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Some of the articles I've written, available on the web. Read more...
EZDSL (Easy Data Structures Library for Delphi) is a freeware collection of data structures classes for Delphi programmers. Read more...
Writing quality software is not just banging away at the keyboard. It's a whole way of thinking. Read more...
Who is Julian? How did he create this rather effective web site? Read more...
The blog archives. Read more...
The blog archives by category. Read more...
