Celebrating 29 years playing with developer tools here in Scotts Valley
How long can I continue on this journey, helping developers and cheerleading software development around the world (physically and virtually)? For me, I can continue as long as the software engineering learning, fun, challenges, and opportunities keep on keeping on. Also, as long as I can wear tie dye.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me throughout my career. Thank you to our customers and the many industry experts that I can call my friends. Thank you to the Embarcadero worldwide team for graciously helping me. Most importantly, thank you to my family for allowing me to share my time with all of you.
What started with my first Fortran program, a prime number generator running on Cal Poly's IBM 360 model 40 has turned into a non-stop computer science and software engineering fun fest for the past 45 years. I know I still have a lot more demos and applications to design, code, compile, debug and deploy.
It's a wonderful programming world! Come join the software development fun with Embarcadero's RAD Studio and Appmethod.
Sincerely,
David Intersimone "David I"


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Thank you for sharing, David.
I fondly remember coding in BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN back in the day on minicomputers with 1MB hard disks that were as big as a cymbal.
Like @steve, I recall that Philippe Kahn was my hero, too.
Back in the days of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Turbo Assembler.
Of course, Anders Hejlsberg rocks as well. As does the entire team that has built these products over the years.
Looking forward to better and better Delphi versions.
Cheers!
Wilfred - Nairobi, Kenya. -
Gary Mueller Thursday, 19 June 2014
Thank you for all your efforts. I have been an avid user since TP4 and the first commercial software I bought for personal use was Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0! I was slowly able to get that adopted at work and when Delphi 1.o came out it fit our Engineering applications so much better than VB3 could at the time. I really wish I could have attended one of Philippe's Chili feeds at BorCon but when I got to meet and talk with you for just a few minutes at the conference in San Fran in 2005 more than made up for it. Look forward to all your future work!
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Mohit Sindhwani Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Congratulations, David I. As others have already commented, thank you very much for your dedication to the craft. There have been disagreements and tough spots in the history of the tools business but C++ Builder has been my trusty tool for a lot of C++ development since 1998. Cheers to the next 10 years!
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David,
I think that we all enjoy you sharing your experience and competences.
I did start using Turbo Pascal in in 1985 and Turbo C 2.0 back in 1989... but did start programming in Fortran back in 1980.
I consider Philippe Kahn as the one guy who brought software development to the public, out of the then so-called mainframe world.
And you are the one who brought the tips and tricks to the public. We are grateful for this. So may people keep their knowledge for themselves.
Keep up the good work and hopefully, you'll stay a long time on that great journey of yours in the developer's world.
Steve - Geneva, Switzerland