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Dyalog in 2008 – a recap of major events


2008 was truly an eventful year for Dyalog. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Dyalog APL, the launch of a new version as well as the Annual User Conference this year held in Elsinore in Denmark, were just some of the highlights. Below you will find short extracts with relevant links.

October 2008 – Dyalog '08 User Group Conference

This year Dyalog hosted the most successful user conference ever in Elsinore in Denmark. More than 100 delegates (plus guests) attended the 2 ½ day conference and many also took part in the 1 ½ day training and workshops on offer. We're already in the process of planning the Dyalog '09 conference – currently scheduled to take place in New Jersey near New York on September 13th-16th, 2009 – and you can see more here. If you were unable to attend in Elsinore, would like to refresh your memory, or perhaps see one of the sessions you were unable to attend, take a look at:

  • The conference review written by Adrian Smith for Vector which can be found here.
  • This year Dyalog taped most of the conference sessions and you can access the slideshows with full audio here.
  • Andrea "Tony" Grignani and Stefano "Wildheart" Lanzavecchia have put together a photo Gallery show from the Conference featuring Tony's beautiful pictures supported by original music composed by Wildheart. You can find their YouTube uploaded show here.
  • Do not miss the wonderful presentation John Scholes made at Dyalog '08 where he took a look at Dyalog through 25 years and made a plea for simplicity. You can find John's presentation here.

September 2008 – LearnAPL

LearAPL is a joint apprenticeship scheme launched by Dyalog Ltd and Optima Systems Ltd. This initiative is aimed at an individual looking to expand their knowledge into the exciting world of APL. The apprenticeship scheme will hopefully attract interesting candidates over the next few months. LearnAPL is part of Dyalog's ongoing activities with regards to attracting new programmers, and we welcome interested students.

August 2008 – Version 12.0.3

Dyalog announced the commercial availability of Dyalog Version 12.0.3, including support for secure sockets. Version 12.0.3 is available "off the shelf" for Windows 32&64, AIX and Linux. Solaris and other Unix versions are available on request.

Version 12 Manuals are available as free of charge PDF downloads or as print-on-demand from here.

2 new public workspaces (APL2IN and APL2PCIN) were also made available for download.

June 2008 – New Dyalog team member – Richard Smith

In June the Dyalog Development Team welcomed Richard Smith. Richard landed firmly on his feet in Dyalog and he quickly started excellent – and independent! – work on Journaling Component Files. The first result of Richard's work was a presentation held at Dyalog '08. If you would like to hear it and see the slides go here.

May 2008 – New Board member, Michael Holmberg Andersen

Michael joined the Dyalog Board of Directors in May. He has worked in SimCorp A/S since 1991 and currently holds the position as Senior Vice President for the IMS Development Department where he is responsible for SimCorp's software development activities.

April 2008 – Dyalog @25

The Dyalog APL language celebrated its 25th anniversary in April, where Dyalog Ltd. hosted an open house day in the office in Bramley Friday the 11th, followed by a more formal event on the 12th. The Dyalog story has further been published as a booklet which was distributed with the September/October issue of Vector to BAA members and to delegates at the Dyalog '08 Conference. If you would like to read the story, a PDF version is available here.

February 2008 – Dyalog Version 12.0.1

At the end of February Dyalog announced the commercial availability of Dyalog Version 12.0 for 32-bit Windows, with Unicode Support. At the same time the company launched 2 new online libraries for Help and Documentation. You can peruse these here and here. Both of these sites include the full version 12.0 and 11.0 Release Notes.

 

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