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I will be hosting a live, online community chat (using our Interwise streaming system) discussing the recent announcement of the signing of a definitive agreement for Embarcadero Technologies’ to acquire CodeGear.  Joining me will be CodeGear CEO Jim Douglas and Embarcadero Technologies CEO Wayne Williams.
We will be discussing details of the recent announcement, what it means to […]

Big news today for CodeGear employees and our community.  Today, May 7, 2008, Borland and Embarcadero Technologies announced that Embarcadero Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to purchase CodeGear. Together, Embarcadero and CodeGear are expected to create the world’s largest, independent software provider of development and database tools. Here is the landing page containing information about the announcement: […]

CodeGear is exhibiting at JavaOne in San Francisco this week.
  http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
JavaOne Survival Kit: Free Beer, Great Dev Tools
After you see the only morphing, transforming, self-teaching IDE at JavaOne you may feel like celebrating.  If so, let us buy you that beer.  After a long day on the show floor at JavaOne, you may need a […]

It was 25 years ago, today (May 2, 1983) that Borland was founded here in Scotts Valley California (actually the company was formally registered in San Jose California).  Twenty-five years of innovations, product releases, announcements, and events including some listed below.

1983: Borland International founded by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn (CEO)
1983: […]

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 […]