A New Role for Nick
There have been some changes around here and as a result, I have a new job within Embarcadero. I am now an R&D Manager on the RAD Studio team, working more closely with the development team to ensure that we deliver a feature rich, stable, high-quality product. I’ll be writing feature specifications, managing the development process, and ensuring that we are doing the right things at the right time. As Product Manager, I was involved to a certain level with the product as it was developed, but my main focus was on the product after it shipped. Now, I’m totally focused on managing the people, process and the project itself to ensure that we ship on time, on target. I’m pretty psyched, because when you get right down to it, I’m really a geek at heart and so being totally immersed in the development process is awesome.
Fear not — I’ll still be blogging and hanging around in the community. I am of course always available to hear about your issues, questions, and problems – that won’t change. There is a new Product Manager who will be letting himself be known soon enough, and I can quite happily say that Delphi will be in capable hands.
Congratulations, Nick! Looking forward to you having more influence on the direction of RAD Studio.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:27 amCongratulations!
April 14th, 2009 at 10:50 amHave fun with the new job!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:04 amCongratulations Nick.
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April 14th, 2009 at 11:27 amI wish you all the best for this new job (and for the next Delphi release too
Congratulations,
April 14th, 2009 at 11:44 amPlease don’t focus for the next version and forget the actual Delphi 2009 users by differing the QC that are not fixed in the http://www.codegear.com/article/39387 to Delphi 2010
"Less Inprise, more Borland" is always good!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:58 amCongrats Nick!
April 14th, 2009 at 12:14 pmCongratulations on the new job. You’ve left some big shoes to fill.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:14 pmExcellent news!
April 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pmNice. Congrats!
April 14th, 2009 at 1:38 pmCongratulation, I hope you’ll enjoy it!
I may have a suggestion or two and I know now who should I speak to.
Cheers
April 14th, 2009 at 2:27 pmCongratulations Nick.
You, more than anyone, deserves this job.
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April 14th, 2009 at 5:25 pmMauricio Buso
Great product manager for great programming language. you impressed Delphi and its community with your shining personality.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:49 pmThanks, and Congratulations.
Congratulations Nick.
I’m expecting more exciting things that comes from RAD Studio.Delphi 2009 is a good step however it has come here too late.We expect a good Win64 Solution and a good cross-compile solution just like Lazarus or CrossKylix (Kylix is necessary for WinDeveloper, but not K3, it’s difficult to deploy&run our program).
BTW, it seems no one know pascal language among the younger coder & students in China, Codegear must push some free or cheap(lower than 15dollar) version of Delphi to them!! VCL and third-party compontents for win-gui & network is enough, ADO is optional, MIDAS/IntraWeb/Soap is no need for the study version.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:17 pmFélicitations !
Now you’ll feel the fresh air of "sprints" in development more accurately.
Ugh… Let me think about it…
That means, you’ll have to fight "Doctor Deadline" too ?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:32 pmChin up, blood brother !
Congrats Nick, if you are looking for ideas on the product, I have a few suggestions . And I’m curious about the new Product Manager, now.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:19 pmCongratulations Nick. Sorry to loose you as the product manager, but pleased very much that you will have more (direct) influence on the development of Delphi.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pmGood to hear.
…does this mean you’ll be getting more flack or less?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:33 pmCongratulation Nick. I hope you can create more robust installer, so that no one complain error on uninstalling Delphi 2009 on Vista X64. Also please create a fixbug / patch for bug error compile Delphi 2009 in Windows 7 64 bit. Thx.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:45 pmGreat, congrats Nick!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:00 pmMore influence on the development process. Now that certainly is a good thing.
Congratulations!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:07 amCongratulations Nick.
Give us a Delphi that will help us move to the Win7 tech full blast. Elegant Ribbon and All.
Thx.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:11 amCongrats Nick!
Of course we are ready to give you suggestions. But for now just two questions:
You say that "I am now an R&D Manager on the RAD Studio team" this means that:
1. The structure has changed or just someone will enter as Delphi Product Manager in your place? If yes, who? FTR, your role now is better imho - …just not to have more management layers above.
2. "I am now *AN* R&D Manager…" - this means that there are more R&D Mangers? If yes, who they are?
See you in .non-technical. You have there already some food for thought.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:16 amFelicitaciones Nick!!!
Como siempre, el producto cada vez se vuelve mejor!
April 15th, 2009 at 3:21 amNice news. Sure you will do all you can to (re)gain what Borland have lost : a large community of Delphi fans.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:23 amCongratulations Nick !
When can we expect Delphi for the Mac ?
Apple is the first to get the Nehalem processor in the Mac Pro. Has Intel more confidence in Apple than in HP or Dell ?
April 15th, 2009 at 4:34 amWindows is too slow and too complicated for our users.
Very good, glad to hear you’ll be working more "inside the box".
April 15th, 2009 at 5:45 amHi Nick
April 15th, 2009 at 7:17 amBring back ECO for Delphi .net (apart from Prism)
Good to hear that, Nick.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:32 pmPlease also focus on price and make it lower.
Now you are in position to ensure that Delphi developers write Delphi using Delphi. Possibly there are other ways to create a quolity IDE, but this one works all the time.
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April 16th, 2009 at 2:44 amCongrats on the promotion Nick. I think being a Product Manager transitioning into an engineering R&D role gives you a great insight to both sides of Delphi’s development.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:22 amGood news. The most appropriate guy to listen to what the community have to say. Cheers.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:43 amThank you for a job well done so far, and may you continue to have good success in your new position!
Warren
June 8th, 2009 at 5:52 am