http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith Advisor and PHP Developer Fri, 18 May 2007 16:38:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US While I have been off working on other things and getting ready to work on my little PHP development project, Swindell, McGlynn and others have been getting out a set of great new products.  The Ruby announcement is very exciting, as is the new JBuilder and C++ release.  As you see ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/05/18/34655 So Swindell and I have been talking about my PHP app at the local Starbucks.  We kicked around a couple of simple ideas.  It has to be simple as all the great developers at CodeGear know because I don’t pretend to be a great developer.    The interesting thing is that ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/05/16/34558 I have been pretty busy with a couple of other things and frankly having way too many meetings in Starbucks so my PHP project has not gotten very far.  Clearly I need to better manage my priorities.    Over the last few weeks, I have spent a lot of ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/05/02/34309 Let’s start by explaining that while my name may have snuck onto a couple of patents and I fancy myself a product guy having created or helped create a few products, I am not really a developer or a great product guy.   I have not written code since I was ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/04/20/34095 Jim has joined the blogging world.  I have been excited by the passion I am seeing from Jim on the business.  I have been away from the office for the past week, but every time someone talks to me about Jim the words energy and enthusiasm come up.   It ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/04/11/33907 As a number of you probably now know, we appointed Jim Douglas as the new CEO of CodeGear today.  The CodeGear team is an incredible bunch of people focused on solving developer problems.  Under Jim’s and the rest of the CodeGear team’s leadership, I am looking forward to seeing CodeGear ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/04/03/33702 While there is a lot of focus on the Delphi for Win32 and Delphi for PHP the Java team at CodeGear has been making some big moves as well.  We just won some accolades on the new JBuilder product which was built by a great team here at CodeGear working ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/03/26/33501 I have had a busy couple of days, so I have not been doing enough communicating via the blog.  Of course, part of being busy was a great event for the CodeGear Scotts Valley team Thursday afternoon and taking my son to see 300…so I should not be complaining.  I ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/03/25/33485 We spent a good bit of time working through issues this weekend.  As I mentioned at a meeting with the CodeGear team this morning, we have had a lot of “firsts” recently.  This ranges from the first time we have simultaneously shipped so many different languages on Delphi to our ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/03/19/33248 We shipped some product, in spite of a winter in Scotts Valley that is feeling way too much like summer.   CodeRage was a great success.  Tod came on at the end right before me and as usual showed his commitment to the CodeGear team and developers.    We are really ... http://blogs.codegear.com/bensmith/2007/03/16/33106