Sip from the Firehose

I previously blogged about Microsoft and Intel funding parallel computing research at University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  Now several technology companies (Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Intel) are funding parallel computing research at Stanford University’s Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory (PPL).  Kunle Olukotun is the […]

Donald Knuth, author of the all-time best Computer Science book series (in my opinion), "The Art of Computer Programming", was recently interviewed by Andrew Binstock for informIT.com.  The interview is very indepth covering programming, methods, tools, history, architecture, and more.  I’ve listed a few of the interview highlights that caught my eye.
On unit testing: "the idea […]

Today you will see new look and feel for the CodeGear web sites.   Both the www.codegear.com and dn.codegear.com have new, cleaner look and feel.
You’ll also find new content on the CodeGear site including drill down capabilities into the feature matricies for each product.  For example, go to the Delphi for PHP product page and click […]

The recently announced Delphi for PHP 2.0 is receiving some very nice press coverage. 
Here are a few of the many articles that have appeared so far:
CodeGear upgrades PHP IDE - Performance, database support boosted in an effort to make PHP development similar to working with Microsoft’s ASP .Net platform.  InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/13/codegear-php_1.html
CodeGear Enhances PHP Tool - CodeGear Delivers […]

Are you using CodeGear’s 3rdRail™ to build your Ruby on Rails applications? Do you need a place to deploy and test your Ruby on Rails servers? CohesiveFT provides virtualized servers to easily create your Ruby on Rails applications for testing and deployment.
Cohesive FT’s Elastic Server™ On-Demand helps you build a Ruby on Rails virtualized Elastic […]

We are here in Bangalore this week for the JAX India 2008 conference.  CodeGear is a silver conference sponsor.  Several talks were given by Ravi Kumar (Principal Architect of JBuilder), Jeff Anders (JBuilder Product Marketing Manager) and myself.  We gave the following talks: Developer UML, Software Archeology, and Introduction to Application Factories.
  (Ravi, Jeff, and David I at JAX […]

The open source technology we all use every day is the result of a the blood, sweat, and tears of a few passionate individuals.  The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards are your opportunity to say thanks, and tell the world which open source projects you find most useful, fun, or interesting.  Read more about this exciting […]

Following the recent announcement of JBuilder 2008 with the new Application Factories capabilities, the R&D team has been creating a series of demonstration and feature videos.  These videos show how to produce and consume resusable modules, how to extend modules, and how to do Application Factory work in the JBuilder IDE.
On CDN, you’ll find an article […]

More articles have appeared in the news following the announcement of JBuilder 2008.
Application Factories featured in JBuilder release - SD Times
CodeGear cultivates developer intelligence - ZDNet
CodeGear announced the availability of JBuilder 2008, its latest version of the IDE for the Java platform based on the Eclipse open source framework - Java Developer Journal
Borland and CodeGear tout […]

Today is April 1st, 2008.  This is blog post is definitely not part of an April Fools Day joke.  We really did announce the newest edition of JBuilder.   The press release is available on CodeGear.com.  You can pre-order JBuilder 2008 on our shop site.
Several news articles have already appeared on magazine web sites:
JBuilder 2008 puts […]