http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:12:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US There is something significant happening on Hawaii's Big Island. No, Kilauea is not erupting again. However, the event taking place will have an impact for years to come. The ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG21 - C++ Standards Committee is meeting in Kona this week. In order to meet their goal of delivering C++0x ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/10/03/38097 For those of you in Silicon Valley, I ran across a great group the other day call SuperHappyDevHouse (http://superhappydevhouse.org/). It's a group that organizes a series of events for passionate technologists to get together, share ideas, meet new like minded people . . . and have fun. The DevHouse is trying ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/08/10/38096 I want to (once again) thank our Moscow Delphi Community Leaders for taking the time to meet with me during my visit to Moscow last week. After speaking to a group of ~200 Delphi and C++ developers at a CodeGear sponsored seminar, I had the pleasure of spending a ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/06/11/35875 Sorry . . . I couldn't help myself. I had to make the Dead reference given I wanted to talk about Rails! I had the opportunity to spend about six hours at RailsConf 2007 in Portland last week. Great experience! The show was attended by 1,600 absolute zealots. I arrived ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/05/23/34802 The day I started at CodeGear, I got peppered by folks inside the company about publishing product road maps. I subsequently held two Community Chats later in my first week and got pummeled by customers regarding our lack of published road maps. My response to both constituencies was "I ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/05/21/34709 Apparently, I'm not qualified to blog from United Airlines lounges at major international airports. I loved the comments in response to the inept formatting skills on display in my "On The Fence" posting. My favorite was: "That was some pretty fantastic formatting there Jim" Guilty ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/04/25/34155 Make that on the Wall. I’m on my way back from a quick trip to Beijing . . . if there is such a thing. If you’re not doing business with or in China, you will be soon or you won’t be in business much longer. This country has ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/04/21/34102 When I took the reigns (as CEO) from the capable hands of Ben Smith, everyone internally and externally had the same question for me . . . “Are you going to blog?” It took me a week, but I’m blogging! So if it took me a week ... http://blogs.codegear.com/jimdouglas/2007/04/10/33850