|
||||||||
|
Nobody likes product activation, but it is used increasingly by software vendors in search of more effective anti-piracy measures. Microsoft is the most prominent example, but many smaller vendors do the same. Codegear, for instance, use activation for Delphi. Even if you have a valid registration key, you cannot use the product until it has checked …continue reading AppForge: a product activation nightmare CodeGear has a new CEO. But why? There’s the usual bland stuff in the press release: Today we made a change to the leadership team at CodeGear. Jim Douglas is joining as CEO of CodeGear. Jim will be responsible for driving CodeGear to the next level, building on the solid foundation and momentum achieved …continue reading Why the change of CEO at CodeGear? CodeGear says it has completed Delphi 2007, its RAD development tool for Windows. What’s notable about Delphi 2007? First, it’s Win32 only. Borland CodeGear hasn’t yet won over many .NET developers, so it took the decision to concentrate on native code in this release, although CodeGear is not abandoning .NET completely. Second, it builds …continue reading Delphi 2007 is done CodeGear’s Anders Ohlsson is excited because Google shows over half a million hits for “Delphi for PHP”. Even with the quotes. I get the same results. More, in fact. Google says 654,000 hits. Now try reading them. I get to page 35, then the hits come to a halt. There are 10 hits per …continue reading Google can’t count New is drifting out concerning CodeGear’s plans to evolve its development tools. Here’s a snippet from Michael Swindell, CodeGear’s VP of products, writing in the Delphi non-technical newsgroup: Dynamic languages such as PHP and Ruby new areas where we will be going. Some products will be more in the RAD camp, aligned with Delphi …continue reading CodeGear (Borland) to support PHP tools A Windows technology I love to hate is the Windows Installer, the setup engine built into Windows that is hard to avoid if you want to comply with Microsoft logo requirements and system management tools. I have a little application which uses this, which uses a custom action written in Delphi. Originally this was an executable with some …continue reading Delphi and Windows Installer: small problem, fiddly solution When I added background threading to my Delphi S3 sample, I inadvertently broke the ability to connect with SSL. I’ve fixed the problem, and included the necessary openssl DLLs in the download, so you can run this even if you don’t have Delphi. I use it to backup my own files. Amazon S3 is a …continue reading Amazon S3 sample update Today I attended a briefing on JBuilder 2007. The briefing was given by CodeGear’s Jon Harrison and was in two parts, the first covering the thinking and background behind the product, and the second a hands-on demonstration of some of the features. Please note that I have not yet tried out the product, and …continue reading Is this really JBuilder? Borland CodeGear has announced details of JBuilder 2007, the first version of its Java IDE to be built on the Eclipse platform. I’ve read quickly through the various PDFs, but it is hard to get a feel for the product from these alone. Is it more like Eclipse, or more like JBuilder 2006? What …continue reading Borland’s JBuilder-on-Eclipse emerges |
|
|||||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll. Discuss on our WP Forum |
||||||||
Recent Comments