Jewels from the loft: launch of Delphi, Netscape’s Constellation, HTML to die, Longhorn for developers

By tim, on April 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It’s the Easter holiday in the UK and I’ve suffered a bout of spring-clean fever. It is time, I decided, to clear out a mountain of old books and magazines.

A job like this always prompts reflections, the first of which is the sad decline of print journalism in the field of software development.

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April 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: borland, cloud computing, delphi, google, internet, microsoft | 5 comments

The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus

By tim, on May 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It is not unexpected, but still sad to see loss-making Borland acquired by Micro Focus for a knock-down price of $75m. Borland’s release says little beyond the financial details. Micro Focus, which is also acquiring Compuware’s ASQ (Automated Software Quality) tools (such as QADirector, DevPartner and Optimal Trace, I presume) says:

Acquiring Borland and the

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May 6th, 2009 | Category: borland, database, delphi | 3 comments

Prism: official Delphi language comes to Visual Studio

By tim, on October 6th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero is to release Delphi for .NET as a Visual Studio add-on, called Prism. Marco Cantu has a summary. Note that according to this post, which is based on an announcement statement by product manager Nick Hodges at the SDN conference near Amsterdam, there will be:

full support for the .NET framework 3.5 (WinForms, WFP,

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October 6th, 2008 | Category: borland, codegear, delphi, embarcadero, software development | 7 comments

Codegear sold to Embarcadero

By tim, on May 7th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

CodeGear, Borland’s developer tools business, is to be acquired by Embarcadero; though to be more precise, CodeGear is being acquired by the owner of Embarcedero, a private equity company called Thoma Cressey Bravo.

Embarcadero has a range of database and data modeling products, including ER/Studio, EA/Studio, RapidSQL, PowerSQL and DBArtisan.

This is the end of

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May 7th, 2008 | Category: borland, codegear, delphi, software development | 2 comments

CodeRage sessions available for download

By tim, on December 3rd, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

You can now download the content from last week’s CodeRage, the virtual developer conference laid on by CodeGear. The downloads use Camtasia and Flash and work well.

A few that I recommend are Ravi Kumar’s session on JBuilder Application Factories from Day 5, and Joe McGlynn on 3rd Rail, an IDE for Ruby on Rails,

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December 3rd, 2007 | Category: borland, codegear, software development | One comment

CodeRage II: Windows only, login problems

By tim, on November 27th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I was surprised to learn that CodeGear’s online conference is apparently closed to Mac users, or anyone not on Windows:

That’s odd, since the company has Java and Ruby development products that run cross-platform.

Further, even Windows users have had problems logging in. The conferencing software CodeGear is using is limited to 1500

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November 27th, 2007 | Category: borland, codegear, internet, web authoring | 3 comments

Is CodeRage the future of tech conferences?

By tim, on November 20th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

CodeRage 2007 starts next week. It’s a technical conference covering CodeGear’s products, including Dephi, JBuilder, C++ Builder and 3rdRail, the new Ruby on Rails IDE.

The conference is both free and virtual.

A virtual conference is no substitute for human contact. I’ve learnt this paradox over many years: even if the same content is

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November 20th, 2007 | Category: borland, codegear, delphi, internet, software development | Leave a comment

CodeGear’s Ruby on Rails IDE is released

By tim, on September 17th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

CodeGear has released its IDE for Ruby on Rails. Called 3rdRail, it installs an instant Ruby on Rails environment, and features code completion, project management, refactoring and integrated debugging. The Eclipse-based IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a 30 day trial is available. I’m downloading it now.

Technorati tags: codegear, 3rdrail, eclipse, ruby,

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September 17th, 2007 | Category: borland, internet, software development, web authoring | Leave a comment

CodeGear puts 64-bit on the roadmap

By tim, on June 22nd, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

CodeGear has updated its Delphi Roadmap. Newly added is Delphi codename “Commodore”, set for Winter 2008, which is to include native 64-bit development. After that the company is promising to focus on multi-core/multi-threaded development.

What else is coming? Delphi ”Highlander”, due later this year, is a belated update to Delphi .NET, will support .NET 2.0, and has

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June 22nd, 2007 | Category: borland, delphi, software development, windows | Leave a comment

JBuilder 2007 comes to the Mac

By tim, on May 11th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Codegear has announced a new JBuilder 2007 release which includes Mac, Vista and RedHat support (the earlier release only ran on Windows). It is to be made available later this month (May 2007).

There are three editions, Turbo (free), standard and Enterprise. Enterprise has “Team Server” features, with tracking and source code management; it’s not

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May 11th, 2007 | Category: borland, software development | Leave a comment
 
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