http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:07:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Delphi now provides a new component based DataSnap server technology.  Existing applications can host their RemoteDataModules inside this new DataSnap server.  Our new DataSnap server does not support the DCOM technology.  If you still need DCOM, the older component set for DataSnap is still included in the product.  For the ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2008/07/20/38912 In my second blog on Blackfish SQL I have highlighted several of its key features.  Many of these features are what make this product easy to work with and easy to deploy.  Simple deployment. There are single file deployment options for both the .NET and Java platforms.  If you use the windows ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/09/10/38908 This release of RAD studio 2007 includes a new ADO.NET 2.0 provider implemented with about 4000 lines of Object Pascal.  Take out the comments and it is less than 4000 lines of code.  This provider is called the AdoDbxClient and it is the ADO.NET 2.0 provider for all dbExpress drivers that implement ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/09/10/38906 In the effort to consolidate the dbExpress and BDP driver frameworks into one we needed to enhance the metadata for dbexpress.  The dbExpress 3 metadata is written in C.  The BDP metadata is written in C#.  The dbExpress metadata was not rich enough for the tooling infrastructure we want to ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/09/07/38810 We’ve been going about 90 miles an hour this summer working to get the next release of BDS studio out.  On the database side of the house there are a ton of new features.  I don’t know what we were thinking putting so much into the product and shipping at ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/09/06/38776 I was chatting with Dan Miser about the new Delphi 2007 yesterday and he made an interesting comment about the product:  “yeah. i like the renaissance going on with Delphi”.  I thought to myself that “renaissance” was a really cool way to describe what is going on with Delphi and ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/03/21/33376 In my first blog on the new DbExpress driver framework concerns were raised about its performance.  I worry about this a lot myself.  The initial goal was to make sure we didn’t make anything slower.  Justin is a member on our team who has completed some preliminary tests that show ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/02/24/32310   Michael Swindell just came in my office and asked me to blog on what we are cooking up in the database side of the Delphi house.  I’m pretty busy right now, so I’m just going to rattle off some things that I hope developers will find interesting.  Excuse me ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2007/02/16/31865 I recently made a passing comment on our Delphi database field test forum about my recent experience of learning Delphi.  I was quickly asked to blog it.  So here are some quick notes on my experience learning Delphi.  A little background first though.  I started my software career writing in ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2006/12/03/30193 I recently joined the Borland DevCo spin off (April 25, 2006).  I have spent most of my working career at Borland between February 8, 1988 to October 14, 2005.  In that time frame, I worked with many great teams and projects.  Most of my work has been some how related to ... http://blogs.codegear.com/steveshaughnessy/2006/05/04/24594