CodeRage free online conference for Delphi and RAD Studio starts next week

By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero’s CodeRage virtual conference starts next week from October 17 2011, and is worth a look if you have any interest in Delphi or the new RAD Studio XE2.

There are sessions on 64-bit Delphi, the new cross-platform FireMonkey framwork, the new LiveBindings data binding system, Prism (Delphi for .NET), and extras including a

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Full circle for Microsoft database APIs as OLEDB for SQL Server is deprecated

By tim, on August 31st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Eric Nelson has posted about how the OLEDB driver for SQL Server is being deprecated and will not be supported beyond “Denali”, the forthcoming version.

OLEDB was created to be the successor to ODBC – expanding the supported data sources/models to include things other than relational databases. Notably OLEDB was tightly tied to

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Using SQLite 3 with Unicode in Delphi

By tim, on February 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve updated my SQLite3 Delphi wrapper for Unicode in Delphi 2009 and higher. Previous versions of the wrapper ducked the issue by using Ansi strings throughout.

I actually used Embarcadero Delphi XE for the development, but I would expect it to work in Delphi 2009 and higher, since it was in that version

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Why Oracle is immoveable in the Enterprise

By tim, on September 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

At Oracle OpenWorld yesterday I spoke to an attendee from a global enterprise. His company is a big IBM customer and would like to standardise on DB2. To some extent it does, but there is still around 30% Oracle and significant usage of Microsoft SQL Server. Why three database platforms when they would prefer

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Oracle: a good home for MySQL?

By tim, on September 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m not able to attend the whole of Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne, but I have sneaked in to MySQL Sunday, which is a half-day pre-conference event. One of the questions that interests me: is MySQL in safe hands at Oracle, or will it be allowed to wither in order to safeguard Oracle’s closed-source database

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Adobe news: Flash Builder 4, Creative Suite 5, quarterly results

By tim, on March 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Lots of Adobe news this week.

First, the release of Flash Builder 4. It seems a long time ago that I was looking at the first preview of code-name Gumbo; it’s good to see this finally released. Since it is Eclipse-based, it looks similar to to Flex Builder 3.0; but under the covers there

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MySQL comes to Amazon’s cloud. Anyone for Quadruple Extra Large?

By tim, on October 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service:

Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your

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Why the EU should not worry about Oracle and MySQL

By tim, on September 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The European Commission is examining Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and has concerns about the implications for MySQL:

Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: “The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world’s leading open source database company. In

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SQLite C# port raises hopes for a Silverlight local database manager

By tim, on August 3rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday programmer Noah Hart announced a port of SQLite to C#:

I am pleased to announce that the C# port is done to the point where others can look at it.

Unfortunately the code was taken offline almost immediately afterwards, thanks to the intervention of the author of SQLite, D Richard Hipp:

Noah, you

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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

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