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The New Delphi Product Page
You guys have no doubt noticed our new web site. I want to make sure that you’ve noticed some of the new features of the Delphi product page.
First, we’ve added a Delphi Resource Page. On this page, we’ve put in some of the popular blogs, web sites, toolkits, and other resources that are useful for Delphi developers. We’ve concentrated on resources for beginners, things that will help your productivity, and things to help you get nice user interfaces up and running very quickly. If there is a site you think should be in on the Resource page, let me know.
Secondly, we’ve added a "Feature Drill Down". Here, we have an outline of the major feature areas, with sub items for the specific features, that then take you to a short description and/or screen shot of the feature. Right now, the feature drill downs aren’t completely comprehensive. We’re working to flesh them out more. If there are areas or specific features that you’d like to see, let me know.
I think both of these are nice additions to the web site, particularly for those folks not so familiar with Delphi’s features and capabilities, and for those folks wanting to get started in the community.
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posted @ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:22:53 +0000 by Nick Hodges
Disaster Relief for China Earthquake Survivors
There are some excellent organizations that make it fast and easy to contribute assitance to the hundreds of thousands affected by the China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone.
Right now if you contribute to the China Earthquake fund thru Mercy Corps, the Western Union Foundation will match every contribution dollar for dollar up to $250k - as of right now they are up to $63k. Mercy Corps also has a matching donor for up to $250k for the Myanmar fund, they are currently up to $84k.
Other reputible organizations that are working directly with groups "on the ground" to aid China Earthquake survivors and Myanmar cyclone survivors include:
Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org
Americares - http://www.americares.org
Worldvision - http://www.worldvision.org
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posted @ Wed, 14 May 2008 22:40:44 +0000 by Michael Swindell
New Webinar: Software Archeology with JBuilder 2008
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posted @ Wed, 14 May 2008 21:42:49 +0000 by Michael Rozlog
Live conversation and Q&A with Wayne Williams and Jim Douglas - Thursday May 22 at 10:00am Pacific Time
I will be hosting a live, online community chat (using our Interwise streaming system) discussing the recent announcement of the signing of a definitive agreement for Embarcadero Technologies’ to acquire CodeGear. Joining me will be CodeGear CEO Jim Douglas and Embarcadero Technologies CEO Wayne Williams.
We will be discussing details of the recent announcement, what it means to CodeGear and Embarcadero customers and partners, what the two companies can accomplish together in creating the largest independent software company focused on the design, development, management, and optimization of applications and their databases. During the live chat, the CEOs will also take questions from community members.
Date, time, and registration details:
- Thursday May 22nd
- 10:00am Pacific Time (5:00pm GMT)
- Click HERE to pre-register for the online chat.
Send questions in advance:
If you’d like to send questions about the announcement in advance for Jim and Wayne, you may do so by sending an email to davidi@codegear.com. Put the text "Question for the CEOs community chat" in the subject line of your email.
Additional information about the Embarcadero/CodeGear announcement:
- Press Release: Embarcadero Technologies® to Acquire CodeGear™ from Borland Software
- Community letter, from David I, about today’s acquistion announcement
- Customer letter from Wayne Williams, CEO Embarcadero Technologies
- FAQ
- Embarcadero Technologies Buys Borland’s CodeGear - an onStrategies update
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posted @ Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:38 +0000 by David Intersimone
Modeling databases with Embarcadero ER/Studio: an InterBase example
As you know Embarcadero is a database company, now a database and developer company. A number of great database tools are coming, one of these tools is ER/Studio, which is a tool specialized in database modeling.
ER/Studio is independent of the database, offering native integration with MySQL, Oracle, Sysbase, and DB2. To connect to other databases, you can use ODBC, and in the screen shot below you can see the famous example database from InterBase, the employee.ib represented in ER/Studio.
ER/Studio provides a lot of functionality and definitely will make your life easier with features like: reverse engineering, synchronization, data warehouse support, and the complete database management.
This is just the beginning!!!
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posted @ Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:54 +0000 by Andreano Lanusse
Modelagem de banco de dados com Embarcadero ER/Studio: um exemplo com InterBase
Como vocês ja sabem, Embarcadero é uma empresa focada em base de dados, agora uma empresa enfocada em base de dados e desenvolvedores. Um grande número de ferramentas de banco de dados estão por vir, uma destas ferramentas é o ER/Studio, ferramenta especializada em modelagem em base de dados.
ER/Studio é independente de banco de dados, que oferece integração nativa com MySQL, Oracle, Sysbase, DB2 e para conexão com outras bancos de dados ODBC, abaixo um screenshot da base de dados employee.ib que acompanha InterBase representado no ER/Studio.
ER/Studio oferece muitas funcionalidades e sem dúvida facilitará sua vida, características como: reverse engineering, sincronização, suporte a data warehousede e completa gestão do banco de dados.
¡Estamos apenas começando!
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posted @ Tue, 13 May 2008 21:37:07 +0000 by Andreano Lanusse
Modelado de bases de datos con Embarcadero ER / Studio: un ejemplo con InterBase
Como ustedes saben, Embarcadero es una empresa enfocada en base de datos, ahora una empresa enfocada en base de datos y desarrolladores. Un gran número de herramientas de base de datos están por venir, una de estas herramientas es ER/Studio, herramienta especializada en el modelado de bases de datos.
ER / Studio es independiente de la base de datos, que ofrece integración nativa con MySQL, Oracle, Sysbase, DB2 y, para conectarse a otras bases de datos, puede utilizar ODBC, y en la captura de pantalla abajo, puedes ver el famoso ejemplo de base de datos InterBase, employee.ib representado en ER/Studio.
ER / Studio ofrece muchas funcionalidades y sin duda hará fácil su vida, características como: reverse engineering, sincronización, soporte de almacenamiento de datos, y la completa gestión de bases de datos.
¡Esto es sólo el comienzo!
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posted @ Tue, 13 May 2008 21:28:58 +0000 by Andreano Lanusse
New JBuilder webinar
What’s new in JBuilder 2008?
Join us for a Webinar on May 15
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/148231045
JBuilder 2008 has just been released, come learn why the industry and customers are excited about the new Java development environment.
New features to be covered in the webinar will include:
* Software Archeology
* Performance Management
* Swing / GUI development
* Application Factories
More information on Software Archeology and Application factories can be found below:
"Software Archeology: What it is and why you should care" by Michael Rozlog - http://www.codegear.com/article/34268/images/34268/software-archeology.pdf
"Capturing Developer Intent in Eclipse via Application Factories" by Ravi Kumar - http://www.codegear.com/article/34268/images/34268/EclipseMagazine_Vol17-v2.pdf
Title: What’s new in JBuilder 2008?
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer
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posted @ Tue, 13 May 2008 03:31:38 +0000 by Michael Rozlog
ISVs and MicroISVs: You’re not only covered…
The combined Embarcadero and CodeGear will continue to be *the* go-to company for ISVs (independent software vendors) and MicroISVs.
With the announcement this week on Embarcadero’s signing of a definitive agreement to acquire CodeGear, there is much chatter about the combination of application and database development and how sweet the combination of CodeGear and Embarcadero will be (the combined company will be able produce incredible heterogeneous products and features for every app, web, or database developer on the planet that would simply be impractical, impossible, or insane for just about any other company) - however, if you’re a developer who doesn’t use or require a database today then "how is all of this news a good thing for me?" Well rest assured it is good. Very good.
For certain, the technical combination of CodeGear and Embarcadero will enable app/database development innovations on a whole new level, but at the core of all of our IDE tools is the application itself. While the majority of applications today are database driven or connected, for many hundreds of thousands of developers - particularly ISVs and MicroISVs building packaged software, a database may either not be required or is just not at the top of your shopping list. More than half of ISV/MicroISV packaged applications include a database but what typically matters most to developers building packaged software is performance, footprint, quality, deployment, and usability. If you are a developer building packaged software you want to be able to maximize the value your customers’ hardware, CPUs, graphics, and OS. You want to build applications that look good, work good, and go fast. You want to be able to leverage hardware and equipment connected to PCs. You are beginning to build applications that are starting to crack the 4GB barrier and your customers have begun to reach critical mass with 64bit machines. You want to exercise both CPU cores that are in most desktops and laptops today, and you want to start designing to leverage the four and eight cores that will soon be commodity. You want language features that will simplify coding and increase resilience without bloating the footprint or forcing you to use a VM. You want to build apps that look like art and work like art - without necessarily being artistically blessed yourself. You want to build applications for a global customer base but you don’t want to have to sink all your waking hours internationalizing. And many of you want to be able to deploy to the other cool OS desktops on the playground.
And then there is that moment when the databaseless ISV decides it’s time add data persistence. For many an experienced programmer who happens to be completely inexperienced with databases, you might as well be learning to speak Klingon. That’s when well integrated connectivity, components, tools, and products come to the rescue. You want it to be seamless, incredibly high performance, often embedded into/with your application, and you don’t want it to get in the way. Oh, and you want to use the database engine/server from the vendor of you or your customers’ choosing.
Since the founding of Borland we’ve been a leader in IDEs, languages, and compilers, and a particular favorite among ISVs and MicroISVs. We’re also established and recognized leaders in RAD Client/Server database and Java/Web application server development. Since spinning out of Borland a year and a half ago, as CodeGear we’ve made significant technology achievements and steps forward for our customers, but combining Embarcadero and CodeGear creates a developer tool powerhouse that will accelerate our combined vision and our ability to address your needs. If you love what we’ve been doing - we’ll only get better, and if you have a lingering complaint, we’ll be better able to accelerate the solution. By combining with Embarcadero you will no doubt hear a lot more about databases and database development, but we also will be turning up the volume (externally and in our development plans) on the needs of ISVs and packaged software, and we are listening to you. You will very soon have a 500+ person global company behind you that is 100% focused on application and database developers. We will be the one stop shop for all developers – that most certainly includes ISVs and MicroISVs. Get ready, it’s going to be fun. Michael
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posted @ Fri, 09 May 2008 22:01:30 +0000 by Michael Swindell
Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #69
- Best question asked at the All Hand meeting yesterday: "When’s the party?"
- Sounds like things were pretty crazy at JavaOne yesterday.
- Interesting graph: http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9936329-39.html
- One thing that is clear to me — Embarcadero is most decidedly not an "ALM Company". That phrase carries a some baggage for many of you, but it seems pretty clear to me that the new company will be focused on developers as we have been all along.
- Other thoughts from the Blogsphere on the deal:
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- Allen has a nice take on a slightly crazy day yesterday
- Roland BeenHakker — EmbarraWhat?, Embarcedar, Embarcadero…
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posted @ Fri, 09 May 2008 04:53:08 +0000 by Nick Hodges
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