Comments on: CodeGear watchwords for 2007…

By: Aux

Aux — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:54:40 +0000

A very good words which are forgotten theese days: FAST and SMALL. I used Borland Pascal 7.0 for my coding purposes until year 2001 when XP came out and DOS software started working a bit clumsy. Then I changed to Delphi 5/6 and I liked it even more because of Code Insight which greatly improves work efficiency. I still use Delphi 7 for many purposes like a text editor.

And the product I dream about is tiny and insanely fast text editor with some IDE features like Code Insight and multiple language support. Why won’t You release such product? Strip off all .NET stuff, help system, WYSIWYG, inspectors and all that RAD/big IDE stuff and make nice and fast editor.

Oh well, that just my feelings and dreams…

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:51:43 +0000

> Kyle A. Miller - Posted @ 12/19/2006 8:51 PM - Thanks for the list David. I would like to a word important to many (I think): Quality.

Kyle - you are right, Quality is our most important word, especially given some of the past versions of some of our products. We have made important process improvements, devoted more engineering and quality people, and more testing.

I think of quality in everything we do, in each of the watchword areas. Thanks for noting it! There are so many important words to run our business (and live) by, I could have gone on and on, but given some of the missteps in some of the products, I am happy to add it to the list!

By: KireZ

KireZ — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:33:30 +0000

Recently you started mentioning PHP, but searching through the blogs i cant find anything more detailed about PHP area plans. Can you give us some pointers here?

thanks.

By: KireZ

KireZ — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:33:07 +0000

Recently you started mentioning PHP, but searching through the blogs i cant find anything more detailed about PHP area plans. Can you give us some pointers here?

thanks.

By: DelphiGearHead

DelphiGearHead — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:34:59 +0000

QUALITY. Given your poor product reputation that should be your FIRST watchword. Shipping another Delphi 2005 would be the death of CodeGear.

By: Excessive

Excessive — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:16:02 +0000

Correction: There is no reason for NOT to do same again..

By: Excessive

Excessive — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:14:50 +0000

Now this is a good list. Please do at least first three of them good, and we will do the rest.

# Community - helping you, doing more with you.

Please start listening to your user base. We may sound negative for the most part (especially myself), but that is why we still care. If we didn't care, we shouldn't follow or post your personal blogs.

# Innovation - for Delphi, C++ and Java languages.

This is the most wanted thing since years! You guys were the best, and there is no reason to do the same again..

I really liked these watchwords, and I hope that you will do everything you can to make them all better.

P.S. I still hate .NET. Please extract and burn that crap from my precious IDE..

By: HeZa

HeZa — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:51:50 +0000

> Open Source - using open source, leveraging open source, supporting open source.

I would like to see the CodeGear-Team writes a complete DelphiFitServer for automatic acceptance tests with FitNesse (http://www.fitnesse.org). Automatic acceptance tests like UnitTest very helpfull but I haven't enough time or perhaps not enough knowledge to write the FitServer by my self.

More Details on http://www.fitnesse.org/FitServers.DelphiFit

By: Mario Montoya

Mario Montoya — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:34:34 +0000

- Not forget python
- Wiki-style help documentation

- Let the community localize the IDE!

- In http://www.clubdelphi.com some users complain that in turbo explorer version can’t use (easily) any reporting solution…. if I have a database and I’m building a aplication, but not have reporting?

Or if you have a info about how integrate it I can write a article for the spanish community

By: m. Th.

m. Th. — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:36:17 +0000

Also I see a very good movement to join forces with the Firebird team. A more specific answer:

1. Because one of the main reasons for choosing Delphi is Firebird and for choosing Firebird is Delphi (see the _entire_ page at http://www.firebirdnews.org/?cat=8) I think that one of the priorities is to ‘validate’ the Firebrid ie. to add support in all Delphi SKU on all platforms. This isn’t so hard to do it, IMHO.

2. Because now Firebird is #1 free sql db on Windows after the MySQL’s eclipse and until Postgres catch up (IF it catch up) you can help a lot Delphi by helping Fb with _many_ _small_ features. (You can help Delphi because M$ VS never will favor Fb (or any other open source db) against their SQL Server. "_many_ _small_ features" means many features which looks good on paper an are easy to implement. Different functions for ex. Or SMP in SuperServer. (You are done with it in IB, they are done with it in Vulcan. Helping them in the merge process will be regarded as a very positive move). Because, for example, now IB/Fb is ACID compilant, very easy deployable, a very well balanced engine (3 features - but crucial ones), but many users, especially newcomers, go with other DB because they have SIN, COS, SHA, …. and other 200 functions/features. Of course, is plenty of marketing there. Also, one can build UDFs but this for a newcomer is quite hard and scary. ("Wh/if in the future my small library will be not supported anymore?"). Also, if you manage to ‘fix’ the relations with Fb team you can leverage on their knowledge to move Ib to the ‘few features but certified’ using their work and also helphing them to have ‘many features, free and appealing for the masses’. The same thing which Sun did with OpenOffice, RedHad with FedoraCore aso. Now, sorry that I’m saying this, I cannot see much users using Ib. And the number will, most probably, decrease. IMHO, You’ll save the Ib only if you’ll help Fb to be a successfull db and present Ib as a commercial, certified version of Fb. And, IMHO, is crucial for CodeGear to have a trusty db engine to rely on it. MySQL is out of control (both community and developement team), Postgres is a baby on Windows (I have 8.2 installed on my machine) and no Delphi heritage to build upon it.

…so, another watchword: ‘Realistic’

Ib cannot fight neither with the closed-source propietary db neither with the open-source ones. Frankly, I have Ib (bundled with BDS2006) but I never installed it. Also, I read about Ib2007 but nothing from there attracts me. Fb has already all the features (or similar) or better ones. And MySQL/Postgres are further…

my 2c,

m. th.