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The New Delphi Product Page

14 May

You guys have no doubt noticed our new web site.  I want to make sure that you’ve noticed some of the new features of the Delphi product page.
First, we’ve added a Delphi Resource Page.  On this page, we’ve put in some of the popular blogs, web sites, toolkits, and other resources that are useful for […]

Totally Juiced Up!

07 May

Well, if you haven’t heard the news yet, you probably want to read this:
Embarcadero Technologies® to Acquire CodeGear™ from Borland Software
There is also an FAQ, Customer letter from Wayne Williams, the CEO of Embarcadero Technologies, as well as a Community Letter from David I.
For a view from the Embarcadero side of things, you can read […]

The Programming Book Business

02 May

I’ve blogged about this before — the programming book industry continues to fascinate me. Jeff Atwood comments this week on it, talking about how "The Internet has rendered programming books obsolete."  Lately, there has been a resurgence of Delphi books, lead by Marco Cantu and others, but these guys are not using traditional book publishing […]

RAD Studio Roadmap Updated

23 Apr

The Delphi and C++Builder Roadmap has been updated.  Note that this roadmap focuses on our native features only.  We’re working on an updated roadmap for our .Net development products.
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April 2008 Hotfix is Available

18 Apr

A Delphi hotfix we are calling "The April 2008 Hotfix" is now live at http://cc.codegear.com/item/25495.  It is also referenced at the Registered Users Site.
Some things to note:

This hotfix applies to all versions of Delphi 2007, C++Builder 2007, and RAD Studio 2007.
You must have the December Update installed for this hotfix to work correctly.  Your […]

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #63

28 Mar

I am going to be on the road next week.  I’ll be attending the COMMON Conference for AS400 developers, showing them all the cool stuff you can do with Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP.  Should be fun — it is being held in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, which is where we had a […]

The Unicode Shift

24 Mar

We’ve been hard at work on our Unicode product called "Tiburon".  Things are going really, really well.
Internally, the process has been quite smooth.  The process went like this:

The first step was to get the compiler working.  First, we established a new type “UnicodeString” which works pretty much like AnsiString does.   It knows how […]

Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP

10 Mar

Today we announced two new products: Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP. You can find out more about them on the product page.
I’m pretty excited about this new product. We’ve worked with SystemObjects in the past, but we decided to take the partnership a step further and create an actual product that includes connectivity […]

Some Notes on the December Update

03 Jan

Hopefully by now all of you have gotten the December Update for Delphi 2007 and RAD Studio 2007. Here are a couple of things about it that you might want to know:
The About Box should now tell you what updates are installed in the product:

This item in the About Box will always reflect any […]

"Powered By" Logos

14 Dec

Hey cool! We now have a set "Powered By" and "Created With" logos online for your download enjoyment. They include both GIF and PNG and low-res and hi-res images.
Please feel free to use these in your applications and brag that your great stuff was written with Delphi or whatever great CodeGear tool you […]

Report from EKON 11 in Frankfurt

26 Sep

I’ve been at EKON this week — it was nice to see folks and to get in a few excellent technical sessions.  Ray Konopka is here as he is every year and he did a great session on Parameterized Types.  Holger Flick is doing a great job with ECO, and Hadi Hariri and Olaf Monien […]

Software Development Conference — Day One

17 Sep

The first day of the Software Developer Conference was fun — as I thought it woudl be.. These folks really know how to run a conference. My hats of to the great gang of friendly people that run SDC. Things are very well done.
Thoughts on the first day:

Went to a Chad Hower talk on for […]

Developer Days Replays Online — lots of RAD Studio goodness

14 Sep

Anders Ohlsson did a great job putting together the RAD Studio Developer Days, a series of talks by R&D Engineers and community members that highlight some of the cool new features of CodeGear RAD Studio 2007.
And now the replays are available.

Pawel Glowacki uses Delphi for .Net to build someWPF stuff — Part One and Part Two […]

Updates and Releases — an Explanation

14 Sep

The release of "Highlander", now known as CodeGear RAD Studio 2007, means some changes for the product that you all have come to know and love, Delphi 2007 for Win32.
First, many of you have already seen Update 3 for Delphi 2007 for Win32. It is a bug fix update, providing hundreds and hundreds of […]

Calculating the Cost of Software Assurance

13 Sep

Bruce McGee is a nice, level-headed guy. He’s always interesting to read in delphi.non-technical, and I always appreciate his clear-thinking posts.  Over the years, Bruce has given us tons of hard-hitting but constructive criticism.
Lately, he’s been, like me, a proponent of Software Assurance.  Bruce is a subscriber (thanks, Bruce!) and it really works for him.  […]

BetaBlogging in Arabic

11 Sep

Can you read Arabic? If you can, here’s a couple of BetaBlogging articles for you from Mohammed Nasman.
Using Generics with Delphi VCL.Net
Highlander, The First look
Thanks, Mohammed!
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Blackfish SQL –The Managed Database

10 Sep

I’m pretty excited about Blackfish SQL.  If you haven’t yet heard about Blackfish, it’s a fully managed, SQL-compliant database application that can scale from being your enterprise-level database all the way down to an embedded, ISV solution for a desktop application.  It runs either on Java or on the .Net platform, and allows you to write […]

CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 — It’s Here!

10 Sep

  CodeGear RAD Studio is now available for sale on our shopsite.  It should also be available from various resellers throughout the world.
RAD Studio 2007 is the latest and greatest suite product from the CodeGear labs.  It’s new features include:

ASP.NET 2.0 support
VCL.NET suppport with access to the entire .Net 2.0 framework
A new .Net 2.0 compiler that […]

Highlander BetaBlogging

28 Aug

By now, you’ve probably seen some of our field testers who are starting to blog about the cool stuff they are doing with Highlander. There are a lot of new things to do with it, and so it is nice to have our field testers out there talking about it.
But I want to make […]

Since Delphi 7 — On Steroids

28 Mar

Some of you may remember this post — Since Delphi 7 — where I outlined many of the features that have been added to Delphi since Delphi 7 was shipped. It’s a pretty impressive list.
One of the common comments was “what the heck is ?” So, because that was a common question, I’ve prepared […]

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