Come work with us!
We have an immediate opening for a web master here at Embarcadero. Our web master must have content management experience, graphic and web page design experience (sample work is required), and great communication and organizational skills. This is a full-time position for someone to reside in the Silicon Valley, California area.
Our web master works in our marketing organization, on product launches, web site content management and organization, marketing collateral, product campaigns, product and web site branding, Flash and other multimedia content development, and much more.
If you or someone you know are interested in this fun and exciting position (it really is), please send resumes/CVs to me via email.
Thank you for your interest.
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Posted by John Kaster on July 27th, 2008 under CodeGear products, IT Industry | 1 Comment »A new old feature for CodeCentral
A few years ago, we migrated CodeCentral from a Delphi CGI application to an ASP.NET application. Most of the features in the old version were replicated to the new version, but one that I really missed was the new upload shortcut from the CodeCentral matrix on the home page.
I finally got around to asking David Clegg to put this feature back in the matrix last night, and he deployed it today. Hit the CodeCentral home page to see the new + (plus sign) link. We’ll improve it with an icon in the near future, but we need to find a good, small, clearly understandable icon to do that.
We’ve also streamlined the matrix and left side navigation to only include CodeGear products, and made some of the button cosmetics consistent with the new look and feel of our other sites.
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Posted by John Kaster on July 10th, 2008 under CodeGear products, IT Industry, CDN | Comment now »Making the globe a bit more personal
During the process of updating our web sites to reflect that we are now part of Embarcadero, we also found time to add a little more personalization to the web site. When you select one of our supported locations, the little globe next to the location changes to approximate your location.
I logged out of our web sites so my personal profile information would not affect our default location presentation. Here’s the default "global" globe when you’re not logged in:
After I change my location to "Australia" I see:
After I change my location to "France" I see:
After I change to "Greater China" I see:
(Note that the language also changes to the "default" language for each location, but that’s the way our location support has always worked.)
Our other supported locations also have globes rendered to display something closer to the location selected.
It’s a trivial tweak, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the importance of our customers in every location on the globe.
P.S. The nice new website design was done by Mark Hannah, and rapidly implemented by Jonathan Benedicto.
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Posted by John Kaster on July 1st, 2008 under CodeGear products, IT Industry, CDN | 6 Comments »Wiki and social bookmarking support on the Developer Network
We just released support for Wiki format and functionality on CDN. I hope this makes it easier for the community to collaborate on content for all CodeGear products.
Go to http://dn.codegear.com/article/38238 for the details.
We also support tagging for all supported human languages on the Developer Network. Go to http://dn.codegear.com/article/38221 for the details.
See you on the Developer Network soon!
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Posted by John Kaster on June 3rd, 2008 under IT Industry, CDN | Comment now »QualityCentral browser client fixes
I’ve done some minor updates to the QualityCentral browser client.
- Updated QC to the new look
- Fixed the Javascript navigation code error by removing that Javascript control
- Changed the "about" link to point to the QC documentation
- Made the option box gray and ensured it will always appear in the top right column
- One of the grids did not have links for the title report, so I changed that and also tightened up the headings.
- Yorai fixed the left aligned comments (in IE) a couple hours after I posted these fixes. Thanks Yorai!
I hope you like these minor tweaks. We should be able to show you the Ruby on Rails replacement client in a public beta very soon.
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Posted by John Kaster on May 8th, 2008 under CodeGear products, CDN | Comment now »Embarcadero and CodeGear
By now, many of you have probably seen the announcement about Embarcadero and CodeGear. I’ve received some messages from people outside CodeGear asking me what I think, so I’ll answer here.
There were many potential outcomes from this "spin-off" effort. I think CodeGear and Embarcadero Technologies fit very well together. Honestly, this outcome is just about the best scenario I could expect. Basically, I didn’t dare to be this optimistic!
The complementary combination of our products and our companies is extensive, exciting, and promising. The two companies have a very large area of interest and expertise overlap, without having conflicting product offerings. The combination of the two product lines will lead to extremely productive development solutions for both sets of customers.
Others have written long posts about this already, so I’m not going to belabor the same points.
I just wanted to provide a public answer to the questions I was getting from people, and reiterate that I think this is a great move and a great day for CodeGear’s customers and its employees.
P.S. As you can imagine, I’m going to be really busy working out the details of integrating our various Internet Services with Embarcadero’s, so I hope you’ll understand if I don’t respond to blog comments immediately.
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Posted by John Kaster on May 7th, 2008 under CodeGear products | 9 Comments »Did you get the EKON Spring 2008 email?
EKON Spring 2008 is coming up in Germany, and we’re doing some email marketing for it.
If you received the email from CodeGear that was written in German entitled "EKON Spring 2008 - The Road to Delphi!" and can’t read German, I’d like to apologize. I had several people ask me why they received this email, and that’s certainly a valid question.
I’ve asked our marketing folks to find out what caused that email to have a much broader distribution list than it should have, so we can prevent it from happening again. We are also going to be providing many more opportunities for you to subscribe to information relevant to you without us having to email you about it. David I blogged about some of the prototype links for this.
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Posted by John Kaster on January 24th, 2008 under CodeGear products, CDN | 8 Comments »A fun Delphi programming contest
Zarko Gajic has a fun contest under way on the Delphi about.com site. Here’s a chance to show your stuff!
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Posted by John Kaster on January 17th, 2008 under Delphi | 2 Comments »Looking for the silver lining
We’re finally at the point where we’re gathering the requirements and wishes for our tagging system for CDN. So, I’m looking at the current tagging system and tag clouds out there to see what I like and don’t like, which things are essential, which things are optional, and which we shouldn’t do.
What tagging system(s) do you like? What tag cloud(s) do you like? We’ll start working on tagging support soon, so if you use the Developer Network, Support site, CodeCentral or QualityCentral at all, I’d love to hear from you about what you like and don’t like with the tagging systems you might be using on other web sites.
Thanks very much for your opinions and suggestions!
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Posted by John Kaster on January 2nd, 2008 under PHP, Ruby, Java, Delphi, IT Industry, CDN | 6 Comments »Farewell, Robert Marquardt
I just learned that Robert Marquardt passed away on December 29th, 2007. Many people in the Delphi community will recognize his name. He was a generous and long-time contributor to the Delphi community, and a member of Project JEDI.
Farewell, Robert, and thank you for your kindness and generosity.
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Posted by John Kaster on January 1st, 2008 under Personal | 12 Comments »Server Response from: dnrh1.codegear.com
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