If you are using the Ruby programming language, what framework are you using with it? If you are using Ruby and doing web application development, you are probably using the Rails framework.
Last week, I had the great pleasure to spend some time with Michael Slinn. We talked about Ruby and Rails. Michael is involved in SDForum’s upcoming Second Annual Silicon Valley […]
I own a boat load of computer science books. I have many shelves of wonderful programming and reference books at work and home. If you scanned the shelves, six books would stand out as the most used, abused, and dog eared. These are the six books that, over the years, I have read (and re-read) more than […]
Tonight at midnight, March 29th, starts the Delphi 2007 for Win32 online event. This event allows you ask questions and talk directly to members of the Delphi development team. This live online event is for Delphi 2007 for Win32 registered customers, Software Assurance customers for Delphi and Developer Studio, and for customers who have Delphi […]
Andrew Binstock just completed a comparative review of Java IDEs including CodeGear’s JBuilder 2007, IBM’s Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 7.0, and Sun Microsystem’s NetBeans 5.5. The results were published in InfoWorld today. The final scoring shows JBuilder 2007 with a “Very Good” rating of 8.6 to Rational Application Developer rated “Good” with a […]
My first programming language in college was a Fortran program to list prime numbers. I was a freshman (Fall 1969) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where I was an Aeronautical Engineering major for one quarter before I changed my major to Computer Science. Last week, on Saturday March 17th, John W. Backus passed away at the age […]
The CodeRage replays are now available on the CodeGear Developer Network (CDN). Anders Ohlsson has written an article giving everyone the links to the video downloads for all of the sessions.
For those of you who have purchased Delphi 2007 for Win32 or are still considering a purchase or to upgrade, the following are the Delphi […]
I was reading SDTimes magazine March 1st edition (okay, I’ve been a little busy lately and am behind on my reading) about the latest edition of The Standish Group CHAOS Report. The article reported that there is less chaos in software development today than there has been since The Standish Group started reporting chaos back in […]
For their tireless work in preparation and execution (they did all the heavy lifting, prep work, and execution), MONSTER SHOUT-OUT to the CodeGear Developer Relations Team:
Christine Ellis
John Kaster
Anders Ohlsson
For supporting the Developer Relations team a big SHOUT-OUT to the following CodeGear employees and community members:
Nick Hodges - CodeGear Delphi Product management
Irene Kimmel - CodeGear Marketing
John Hornyak […]
After writing entries for this blog (and the Sip from the Firehose series before we called them blogs) for a number of years, I am asking you tell suggest topic areas for me to blog. There are so many different topics I could blog about, but I also want to make sure that I write […]
Our local newspaper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, has an article about CodeGear in today’s business section. “The company’s developer tools division has a new identity and a new name, CodeGear. Sentinel business reporter Jondi Gumz caught up with company veteran and chief evangelist David Intersimone to ask him about the future of CodeGear and high-tech […]