Brian's Achievements
- Speaker at nearly forty international developer conferences
- Announced as Best Speaker at Borland's
BorCon 2002 conference in Anaheim, California
- Presenter of regular talks and seminars for The Developers Group, 1995 - present
- Nominated for the Spirit of Delphi 2000 award
- Borland Advanced Delphi 6 Product Certified
- Borland Delphi 6 Product Certified
- Borland C++Builder 5 Product Certified
- Borland Certified Borland Delphi 4 Client/Server Consultant
- Borland Certified Borland Delphi 2 Client/Server Developer
- BrainBench
Delphi 6.0 Master level, December 13th, 2002
- BrainBench
Delphi 5.0 Master level, December 7th, 2000
- BrainBench
Delphi 3.0 Master level, December 13th, 2002
- BrainBench
.NET Framework, December 13th, 2002
- BrainBench
C# Programmer Master level, April 24th, 2002
- BrainBench
C Programmer, January 5th, 2000
- BrainBench
HTML 4.0 Programmer, February 12th, 2000
- BrainBench
Programmer/Analyst Aptitude Master level, January 12th, 2000
- BrainBench
General Linux Administration, January 29th, 2000
- BrainBench
Red hat Linux Administration, December 16th, 2000
- BrainBench
SuSE Linux Administration, December 23rd, 2000
- BrainBench
Linux Programmer, January 29th, 2000
- BrainBench
MS Windows 95 Administration, January 12th, 2000
- BrainBench
MS Windows 95 Navigation Master level, January 11th, 2000
- BrainBench
MS Windows 98 Administration, January 13th, 2000
- BrainBench
MS Windows 98 Navigation Master level, January 11th, 2000
- BrainBench
Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Win98
- Borland Connections Partner
- Contributor of a chapter on .NET Interoperabilty to Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 by Marco Cantù, published
by Sybex, 2005
- Technical reviewer of Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 by Marco Cantù , 2005.
- Contributor of a chapter on .NET Interoperabilty to Delphi for .NET Developers
Guide by Xavier Pacheco, published by Sams, 2004
- Co-ordinator of meetings of The
Developers Group (DG), from January 2005 onwards
- Co-ordinator of meetings of The
.NET Developer Group (DDG), from April 2003-January 2004
- Technical reviewer of Mastering Delphi 7 by Marco Cantù , 2003, winner of Delphi Informant's 2003 Reader's Choice Award in the
Best Book category.
- 15 part Kylix tutorial series published in Linux Format between 2001 and 2002
- Co-ordinator of meetings of The Borland C++ Builder Developer Group, an historic
division of The UK Borland User Group,
from March-October 1997
- Co-author of
The Revolutionary Guide to Delphi 2, 736 pages, published by Wrox Press,
1996
- Editor of the problem-solving column The Delphi Clinic in The Delphi Magazine from 1995 to 2006
- Author of dozens of articles and other contributions published in The Delphi Magazine, between 1995 and 2006
- Author of The Borland
Pascal Problem Solver , 464 pages, published by Addison-Wesley, 1994
- Initiating and authoring comprehensive, on-line hypertext product information and
support help system for Borland product lines, 1994
- Presenter of part of a country-wide seminar series on object oriented programming,
1993
- Moderator and chief contributor of the Borland forum on the CIX European electronic
conferencing system, 1992-1995
- Planning and implementation of in-house language product training program at Borland
UK, 1992
About Brian Long
Education and skills
Employment history
Go back to the top of this page