Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #69
08 May
- Best question asked at the All Hand meeting yesterday: "When’s the party?"
- Sounds like things were pretty crazy at JavaOne yesterday.
- Interesting graph: http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9936329-39.html
- One thing that is clear to me — Embarcadero is most decidedly not an "ALM Company". That phrase carries a some baggage for many of you, but it seems pretty clear to me that the new company will be focused on developers as we have been all along.
- Other thoughts from the Blogsphere on the deal:
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- Allen has a nice take on a slightly crazy day yesterday
- Roland BeenHakker — EmbarraWhat?, Embarcedar, Embarcadero…
Dear Nick,
I’ve sent you mail, please check it out and respond. Basically, I’m finding it hard to purchase Delphi 2007 - it is so ridiculous!
These are the kind of issues the new company needs to avoid.
Ronald
May 8th, 2008 at 10:40 pmI’ve mentioned on another blog that I strongly suspect that the graph does not truely represent a move to unicode, but rather because of the strong relationship with the ascii curve, it more likely represents a strong move towards marking ascii based pages as utf-8, since if you stay in the 0..127 character range (99.9% of all english pages), they are identical. This is more a matter of making a page pass a "standards compliance test" rather than real adoption of unicode. Now a graph showing the number of pages that use two or more byte utf encoding from before and after showing a significant rise, that would impress me.
I can’t resist, I just gotta suggest the tounge in cheek thought that Embarcadero bought CodeGear not for the products it sells, but because it’s a cheap way to change their company name to something people can easily spell AND get the associated domain name!
I did some of the screenshots of the database modeling I’ve seen from Embarcadero - but then I got my first data modeling training in Oracle style diagrams…
May 9th, 2008 at 8:41 amI did **SEE** some of the screenshots, sorry, missing word totally screwed up the meaning of my last sentance. Accidently took my from passive viewer to a more involved role that just ain’t so. I saw the screen shots, not took them. And here I thought I had paid more attention typing in that entry than normal
May 9th, 2008 at 9:29 amGeeze, even the re-edit is full of mistakes… "sentence", "took me"
Man… start your day by having to give your son the Heimlich maneuver (it ended well, oxygen for everyone!) and suddenly you completely forget how to spell and type.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:58 pmCongratulations, Nick. The only tools I like working with as much as Delphi are databases (and of course DB tools that make the job easier)! It’s a great fit and I think this is going to work out well. Keep on making my development life easier and I’ll keep on buying ‘em!
Best wishes,
May 13th, 2008 at 4:46 pmJanice