Sip from the Firehose

In my ongoing conversations with Charlie Calvert over the past decade, I’ve been continuing to bring up the subject of simplifying programming, simplifying programming languages, simplifying programming paradigms.  With all of the platforms, operating environments, programming languages, component libraries, class libraries, and tools, I still thirst and strive to make programming even simpler.  OOP as […]

Merry Christmas 2006
Merry Christmas from David I, Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist, CodeGear (and part time Santa Claus).
Some of the Codegearians are at home this week. I’m spending the time with my family. I’m also doing a bit of relaxing, reading, and programming. I hope you are all having a good holiday […]

From PC World online, December 20 - http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128265/printable.html
Here’s the top 10 of their list of the top 21 technology (and technology company) screwups in 2006 along with a comment or two from me.

Flaming notebook batteries - thankfully, none of my notebook batteries were on the recall list.
The HP corporate spying scandal - yikes.  Who’s watching?
Electronic voting […]

The JBuilder 2007 Introduction and Overview Web launch videos are now available on YouTube. The videos have been split into multiple parts because of YouTube’s 10 minute limit for videos. Other launch videos will appear soon.

JBuilder 2007 Introduction by Michael Swindell - Part 1
JBuilder 2007 Introduction by Michael Swindell - Part 2
JBuilder 2007 Introduction by […]

We are nearing the end of an interesting 2006.  While some businesses are closing for the holidays, CodeGear is revving up for 2007.  Our web site is live at www.codegear.com.  We are putting the finishing touches on our plans for 2007.  While we haven’t crossed all the T’s and dotted all of the I’s on the plan, […]

DevNooz (Developer News) from the past few days:

I read the following news article on endgadget.com. The article talks about a new use for your USB port. AirSoft turret USB missle launcher mows down unsuspecting office mates. Using your USB port you can fire missles at your unsuspecting co-workers.
Google open sources its Google Web Toolkit (GWT). […]