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CodeGear is on the Java Community Process Committee Elections 2007 ballot.  We are running for a seat on the Java Standard Edition/Enterprirse Edition executive committee.  If you are a Java Community Process member, please consider voting for CodeGear in this year’s election.
CodeGear’s election qualification statement is available at https://www.jcpelection2007.org/jcp/qualifications?company_id=8521&committee=1
Elections will run from 9 AM Pacific Time, October […]

There has been a lot of software innovation in the first 50 years of the computer industry.  Software continues to transform our world.  The CEOs of companies that are members of the Business Software Alliance (BSA)  believe that 75 percent (or more) of the software innovations and benefits are still to come.  Lack of skilled […]

From time to time someone asks me what Philippe Kahn is doing.  After he left Borland, Philippe successfully started (and sold) two companies, Starfish Software and LightSurf Technologies.  He is now the CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder (with Sonia Lee) of Fullpower Technologies.  He is also a successful sailboat racer with his Pegasus Racing team.
Fullpower Technologies has been in […]

On August 13, 2007, Mike Rozlog and I gave a presentation, "Meeting the Challenges of Java development", at the Real World Java seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.  I presented a quick CodeGear overview.  Mike gave a technical demonstration of software archeology using JBuilder 2007.

Watch the replay on SYS-CON TV (you just have to register to […]

I arrived yesterday in Buenos Aires for a Friday seminar with our community of developers here in Argentina.  There are many passionate CodeGear developers here.  Buenos Aires and Argentina are known for other passions, besides programming.  Tango, Rugby, Beef, Polo, Wine, and Football (soccer to some of you) are some of the passions in addition to software […]

A follow up to a previous blog entry, “Best language for beginning programmers?”. I was looking at research being done at the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute. One of the research projects in the Learning Technologies area is Alice.
From the research project home page, Alice is described as a " The focus of the […]

Joe McGlynn, Director of Product Management at CodeGear responsible 3rdRail RoR IDE, JBuilder Java development tools, and C++Builder product line, shares his "top ten reasons to love Ruby on Rails".  The article appears on Doctor Dobbs’ (DDJ) open source portal.
Joe’s blog is at blogs.codegear.com/joemcglynn/
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October 21, 2007 article on the InternetNews.com web site contains a recent interview with James Gosling, "the father of Java".
The interview article starts by stating, "There is strength in numbers, but Java’s future — as well as the long-term acceptance of NetBeans and other Sun products — depends on how well these technologies play in […]

Martha and I are down in Los Angeles for USC parents weekend.  Today we sat in on a fun lecture titled, "The Eight Simple Things you should be certain your children have learned before we grant them their diplomas".  While the lecture and this list were focused on students and parents, the 8 things also […]

The Rails framework and Rails applications are great examples of the use of the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture.  MVC was first created by Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug, a Norwegian computer scientist.  Reenskaug created the first MVC implementation and  document as a visiting scientist at Xerox PARC between the summer of 1978 and summer of […]