Table of Contents
Introduction
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
Conclusion
Introduction
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found again, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you.
I wont tell you the entire story about why this article is so late, but lets just say that the orders to save the Vogons grandmother from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal didnt go through anywhere near the trouble
Finally, and Ive never been more pleased to say this, without further ado, here are the results of the Open Tools API contest that was supposed to have been announced on August 2nd, 2004.
The Good Thing is that the 1st Place Winner got a much more powerful TabletPC than originally planned, and the 2nd and 3rd Place Winners got Delphi 2006 Architect (instead of C#Builder or Delphi 8 I told you it was late). The prizes have all been shipped and received.
1st Place
Winner David Hervieux Sharp Builder Tools 3.1
Sharp Builder Tools is a set of tools built to increase the productivity of C#Builder programmers by adding several features to the IDE. SharpBuilderTools is developed as Open Source software and encourages user contributions to the project.
Figure 1: The SharpBuilderTools Edit submenu offers some useful edit helpers, which give direct access via menu entries to the most commonly needed editing tasks.
Figure 2: David with his new toy!
2nd Place
Winner Valentino Kyriakides - C#Builder Goodies v.1.1
C#Builder Goodies is an add-on module for the Borland C#Builder IDE which helps you to perform C# language specific reserved keyword and XML documentation auto completion tasks inside the C#Builder editors. Furthermore, it also includes a quick access WYSIWYG XML to HTML viewer helper and a keycode analyzer helper.
Figure 3: C#Builder Goodies in action in Delphi 2005.
3rd Place
Winner Marc Rohloff - Favourites Menu for C# Builder and Delphi for .NET
Favorites Menu is an expert that adds a 'favourites' submenu to the file menu in C# Builder. The submenu contains items for all your favourites that have already been memorized as well as options to add the currently active file and project. There is also a dialog for more advanced configuration including reordering and adding separators and shortcut keys to the submenu.
Figure 4: As you can see, Favourites Menu works great in BDS 2006 as well!
Conclusion
Dolphins: [singing] So long, so long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Congratulations to the winners, the Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are on me!
