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{ Monthly Archives } December 2008

Happy Holidays from Embarcadero Technologies

Happy Holidays!  Whether you enjoy Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, Festivus, Winter Solstice, Junkanoo, Muharram 1, New Year’s Day, and other holidays during these weeks. I hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends.

Even though these are tough times in our economy and our world, I know we will get through them all together.  I send out the biggest and [...]

Embarcadero products are Jolt Award finalists in several categories

Embarcadero products are finalists in four of the 19th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards!  JBuilder, ER/Studio Enterprise Portal, Change Manager, and 3rdRail are finalists.  We’ve won several Jolt Awards in the past and are very proud to be finalists again.
Change and Configuration Management

AccuRev (AccuRev)
Change Manager (Embarcadero Technologies)
JetBrains TeamCity (JetBrains TeamCity)
OpenMake Meister (OpenMake Software)
Plastic SCM (Codice [...]

Time spent programming, reading, writing, etc in a "typical" day in 2009

On Tuesday March 7, 2002 Grady Booch invited everyone to tell him how much time they spent doing things, architecting, coding, testing, reading, stuff, of whatever else we do in a day. Grady reported the results of 50 people who reported what they spent time doing on that Tuesday:
Analyzing -16%
Designing - 14%
Coding - 16%
Testing - 10%
Phone - 3%
Reading [...]

What programming and domain specific languages do you use every day?

In the course of a typical day I use a range of programming and domain specific languages in the programs I build, the demos I create, and the presentations I give.  If we were just talking about the most used programming language for any one developer, each of us might mention C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, [...]

CodeRage III - Day 5 - Friday, 5am to 12:15pm (Pacific Time)

It’s finally a Friday.  TGIF.  Day 5 of CodeRage III!  We made it to the final day, actually the final morning (if you’re on west coast time).  This morning we have technical sessions starting at 5am and finished the day with the
Closing Keynote featuring Embarcadero Technologies CEO Wayne Williams at 11:15am
Is it too late to register?  [...]

CodeRage III - Day 4 - Thursday, 5am to 8pm (Pacific Time)

Day 4 of CodeRage III - It’s Thursday!
It’s the fourth day of CodeRage III.  Just 1.5 days of technical sessions left. Have you missed any of the sessions? You can still register and learn great things for the next 1.5 days (really? only 1.5 days left?) of CodeRage III.
English language sessions for [...]

CodeRage III - Day 4 - Thursday, 5am to 8pm (Pacific Time)

It’s the fourth (of five) day of CodeRage III.  It’s Thursday and now there are only 1.5 days left for CodeRage III.Â
This morning, in room #1, it’s the Al Mannarino JBuilder and Java show.  Al is one of Embarcadero’s Software Consultants in the US.  He is giving back to back to back technical sessions starting at 5am [...]

Some of the fundamentals driving today’s systems development

What factors are driving software systems development?  Economic and business SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis drives some of the decisions to build, modify, update, and retire the systems we build and use.  There are new platforms (what’s the latest overloaded use of the term "platform" these days?), new languages, new API(s)/Frameworks, new architectures, [...]

CodeRage III - Day 3 - Wednesday, 5am to 8pm (Pacific Time)

It’s the third day of CodeRage III. Wednesday is also named "hump day" - after the lunch break today, we will be over half way to the end of CodeRage III on Friday afternoon. So don’t miss another minute.
You can still register and join us for the next 2.5 days of CodeRage III.
Wednesday’s English language sessions [...]

Delphi Prism - sources of information and examples

We’ve received a few emails from Delphi developers, who have downloaded the trial version of RAD Studio 2009 with Delphi Prism, asking where they can find additional examples, articles, tutorials, and other sources of information.  Some developers want to easily understand the differences between the Delphi Win32 and Delphi Prism languages.
Reading source code examples and articles always helps [...]

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