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Do you spend too much time writing SQL code for your Java programs?

Wish you had a tool that would help you write better SQL, faster?  Get to know Embarcadero PowerSQL!
PowerSQL is the first SQL development tool built specifically to meet the needs of application developers. With the acquisition of CodeGear, Embarcadero can now offer unparalleled end-to-end Java and SQL development by pairing PowerSQL and JBuilder.
Please join us for […]

Tiburon/C++Builder - soon with live UML modeling

C++Builder 2007 included code visualization, a one-way UML class diagram viewer.  In Project Tiburon, the next version of C++Builder will have live code and UML modeling.  This means you can work in the source code, work in the UML model, and move back and forth with full, live synchronization - "the code is the model, the model is the code".
C++Builder […]

Tiburon’s LoadFromFile and SaveToFile for Unicode characters

With Tiburon, I can use Unicode characters with VCL components like TMemo, TListBox, TComboBox (and others that contain string lists).  How can I  load the strings from a file and save the strings to a file? How do I need to modify any existing Delphi and C++Builder programs to handle Unicode characters for these components?  Here is the answer.
There is a new, optional, parameter for the […]

Unicode database support in Tiburon for Delphi and C++

In Tiburon, the next versions of Delphi and C++Builder, there is full support for Unicode throughout the language, the compiler, the runtime library, and the VCL. The basic String type is now a UnicodeString. As part of the Unicode support, there is also full support for Unicode characters in databases and database components. While Delphi […]

My first day as an Embarcaderian…

I woke up this morning at 5am.  Turned on my computer and read the press release announcing that Embarcadero closed the acquisition of CodeGear from Borland Software.  Both the Embarcadero and CodeGear web sites have a flash animation highlighting the combination of DatabaseGear and CodeGear focused on tools that let architects, designers, developers, and administrators "design it, build […]

Embarcadero 2008 Early Adopters and Beta Program

Embarcadero runs open beta programs for its products. There are two programs running right now: PowerSQL 1.1 and DB Optimizer 1.0. 
PowerSQL simplifies SQL development for application developers with many features for improving productivity and reducing errors. A rich SQL IDE with code completion, real-time error checking, code formatting and sophisticated object validation tools help streamline […]

Delphi/Pascal magazines, conferences, and more…

I am here in Amsterdam Netherlands for our Delphi meet up at the Novotel Hotel.  CodeGear evangelist Pawel Glowacki and I are giving technical presentations.  Pawel is currently talking about VCL for the Web and dbExpress 4 architectures for Web 2.0 and Database programming.
Before the start of the seminar, I received a copy of issue […]

CodeGear + DatabaseGear - what will be possible

I am over in Europe visiting with developers. Last week I was in Italy and Germany at the Delphi developer days in Piacenza (Marco Cantu) and Gunzburg (LegoLand). At the end of my CodeGear and Embarcadero update presentation, I covered some of things that could be possible in the future once the two companies come […]

DDJ interview with Ravi Kumar, JBuilder Principal Architect, about Application Factories

Dr. Dobbs (DDJ) has posted an interview with CodeGear JBuilder’s Principal Architect Ravi Kumar.  In the interview, Ravi talks about capturing developer intent and application knowledge using JBuilder 2008’s Application Factories technology.  You can find the interview at http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/207404272.
If you are at JavaOne 2008 this week in San Francisco, you can see Application Factories in […]

Stanford University’s Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory

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 […]

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