Spasibo!
I want to (once again) thank our Moscow Delphi Community Leaders for taking the time to meet with me during my visit to Moscow last week. After speaking to a group of ~200 Delphi and C++ developers at a CodeGear sponsored seminar, I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours with our Community Leaders. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the Russian market and discuss the current and future state of Delphi. Roadmaps were of course a topic of hot discussion in the seminar and in my breakout meeting with the Community Leaders. The Delphi and C++ Builder roadmaps are now posted on the CodeGear Developer’s Network. Per the plan I articulated in my blog posting on roadmaps, JBuilder and InterBase roadmaps will follow shortly. In addition, a separate, more detailed C++ Builder will be posted as well. Das Vadanya!
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Posted by Jim Douglas on June 11th, 2007 under Uncategorized |
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June 12th, 2007 at 2:06 am
I’ve said it in my blog, but as you’re a busy person, I’ll say it here too: *EXCELLENT* work Jim!
With you in charge, I trust CodeGear’s future!
On a side note, regardless of roadmaps (having one is a major statement and I’m happy you do and know you can’t please everyone), I still want to make a couple comments on things that still need improving (I know you’ll get there eventually: just pointing them out to you!)
- Help is *still* not *that* good, not even after the fix: a lot of work still needs to be done. As a very simply example, I can’t even ask for help on basic things such as array, integer and other delphi keywords: either no help or VB.NET/C#.NET help which, for a Win32 product, is odd…
- Quality: you guys have a nice tool with QC, but a *VERY* bad process around it! Recently I helped pre-processing some QC bugs and found bugs reported against Delphi 7 and some 5 years ago that were *still* un-opened and, of course, still present in Delphi 2007! Now *that* is a major NO-NO if you really are serious about product quality. Fixing bugs has to be a more expedite process…
These are the two major points I still think you should address. Another hot-topic is that of online activation but it’s not one that affects me considerably, even though it may be affecting others… AFAIK, MS dev products don’t "suffer" from that, so that should give you something to compare to…
All in all, just keep up the EXCELLENT work you’ve been doing Jim and I believe I can stick with Delphi for a few more years!
THANK YOU.