http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero Just another Embarcadero Blogs weblog Thu, 10 May 2012 19:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2012 RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder developer surveys. Your input has been very valuable in helping us understand your usage, goals, challenges, and needs from Embarcadero.  As a thank you for your participation we raffled off one new iPad and the winner is.... Dr.  ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2012/05/09/congratulations-to-our-2012-survey-ipad-winner/ Last week, we released Update 4 for XE2 and I am very proud of the team for delivering 100s of fixes and optimizations (nay, over 1000) through these last 4 updates. As you have seen, we've put a particular focus on FireMonkey and as you might appreciate the support matrix of target ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2012/03/12/update-4-hot-fix-coming-right-up/ We've been really busy these last few months releasing updates to XE2 as we had discussed during the release. Last week we shipped Update 2 and yesterday a hot-fix for C++ developers targeting MacOS X Lion, so I thought I would take a moment to discuss our update strategy in ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/11/09/an-update-on-xe2-updates/ An exciting new feature of C++BuilderXE2 is C++ Audits. For those of you unfamiliar with Audits, this is a static code analysis technique to look for potential issues in source code. Some of the things a good audit should do is look adherence to coding standards like naming conventions, or ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/10/19/clang-more-than-an-onomatopoeia/ Recently published to SourceForge are RAD C++ versions of several FireMonkey demo applications. These demo applications showcase Animations, FireMonkey Controls, and 3D applications. You find the demo projects in the following SVN repository. https://radstudiodemos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/radstudiodemos/branches/RadStudio_XE2/CPP/FireMonkey Just use the Open from Version Control option in your RAD Studio XE2 or C++Builder XE2 IDE and point it ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/09/22/rad-c-firemonkey-demo-apps/ These last few weeks we have had Embarcaderians out on the road talking about RAD Studio XE2 and FireMonkey. The reception and excitement around FireMonkey, in particular, has been infectious. Even though there is plenty there to learn about and play with we've been asked regularly about our roadmap. Our ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/09/17/may-the-roadmap-rise-with-you/ By now, you have probably seen announcements for Embarcadero's latest product release of RAD Studio XE2. XE2 includes significant updates to Delphi, C++Builder, and RadPHP. It also introduces a brand new multi-platform application framework - FireMonkey. For VCL developers, XE2 delivers a high-quality release, that now includes a 64-bit Delphi compiler ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/09/02/e-xe2/ Usually when you see a blog title with "embarking"  in it you can safely assume someone is announcing a resignation. I am going to use it a little differently today to describe my recent decision to come back to product manage RAD tools here at Embarcadero. My embarkation is, in ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/jtembarcadero/2011/09/01/embarking-to-embarcadero/