Chris Pattinson

Hi all,
 We’ve started the Delphi Prism Beta, which is testing of our new Delphi.NET solution. It’s pretty cool, I’m not supposed to say more until Nick officially announces the details.
 However if you are interested in testing out fully functional beta builds, go here to apply:
https://beta.embarcadero.com/callout/default.html?callid=6E2829BA76664D57ABD8F26046781EA5
 We’ll be adding folks periodically from those that apply. Anyone who [...]

Since we’ve just released the December 2007 update for RAD Studio 2007, Delphi 2007 and C++Builder 2007, this seems like an appropriate time to reflect on this years work. (see http://dn.codegear.com/article/37350 for details on the update). 

First a few statistics: Since January 1, 2007 a total of 7006 defects have been verified by QA as ‘Fixed’ or ‘Retest’ [...]

Quality Central is one of the best methods to formally communicate with our customers.
One interesting statistic - 10472 reports have been pushed into RAID (internal bug tracking system) from QC since inception, and ‘Closed’.  Closed can mean several things, so taking a slice of ‘Fixed’ and ‘Retest’ ones I see 5335.  That seems pretty good.
On the other [...]

Every release, I get those release jitters when putting out that gold image to manufacturing. RAD Studio 2007 has been out for about a month and a half now, and looking in Quality Central and at various forums - overall feedback has been positive.
A few folks have run into issues with the installer - some [...]

In the past few weeks, I’ve had several customers and field testers ask why we don’t talk in detail about any of the updates we are working on as we used. I can understand the confusion, it’s fairly frustrating on the development side too since the more folks we have jump in and join the field [...]

A basic business theme drilled into me about 16 years ago was the customer is always right. Now, there are some exceptions - but that golden rule implies if you produce products or services that your customers need and want, you’ll have a successful business.
This was something on the back of my mind during my four [...]

This week, I’m on the road to sharpen and learn about current QA processes. CodeGear has made some great progress in the past few years in terms of functional, performance, stress and user acceptance testing - it’s a journey I never really expect to finish since technology will keep moving very rapidly!
So I’m in Boston, [...]

I wrote these instructions in response to a question from SA customers on how to safely install RadStudio 2007.  The instructions are mostly aimed at existing D2007 users.  The main difference between an Update is when you want to install the full studio, run the setup program and select the upgrade option (top option) in the UI dialog that appears.  [...]

The most common issues I see folks running into are listed below. Feel free to send me email if you find something other then what is listed here. I’d appreciate a QC report logged so it’s easy to promote and have the team investigate
1) If you have trouble downloading files, read here:
Downloading new .7zip files [...]

Now that RAD Studio 2007 has RTM’d, we’re doing the final preparations for Update 3 - the update all our Delphi 2007 and C++Builder 2007 customers will ‘inherit’ as part of the RAD Studio 2007 release.
Update 3 is similar to Update 1 in how it will uninstall and re-install the product. We also broke out [...]