You can now watch episodes 7 and 8 of the US/Canada Developer Direct Q2-2013 series.  Each Friday at 10am, Anders Ohlsson, Al Mannarino and David Intersimone "David I" answer your questions, cover a development topic and cover the latest news for developers. There is just one more Friday for this series on June 14, the "Season Finale".  If you have topics and demos you want the Developer Direct team to cover, send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // . Embarcadero Developer D...

Один из "стандартных" вопросов, который мы слышим: "Зачем нам дополнительные инструменты, кроме тех, что поставляет производитель СУБД, мы и так справимся?" Я расскажу, а дальше вы думайте и решайте сами. В ИТ индустрии, как и в многих других, принято опираться на аналитические обзоры, исследования и мнения аналитиков-экспертов. Компании Gartner и Forrester, надеюсь, представлять не надо. Многие журналисты ведущих зарубежных и отечественных компьютерных изданий пристально следят за аналитичес...

I've now uploaded Thursday’s (October 20) CodeRage 6 session replays to the Embarcadero Developer Network’s Code Central repository. Join us tomorrow, Friday, the last day of CodeRage 6 for the final technical sessions. We will finish at 12noon Pacific Time (UTC -7).  Also, check out the virtual exhibit hall where many of our technology partners have special offers for their products and services. 6:00am:  VENDOR SHOWCASE: FastReport VCL for RAD Studio XE2 by Denis Zubov - Fast-Reports.  See ...

Our technology partners have exhibits in the CodeRage 6 virtual exhibit hall.  Many of them are offering special deals for CodeRage 6 attendees.  The conference has 24 hours until it ends.  Now is a great time to visit the virtual exhibit hall and see what our partners are doing to support our Embarcadero Delphi, C++Builder, RadPHP, Prism, and RAD Studio XE2, DB PowerStudio, and InterBase product releases. Partners participating in the CodeRage 6 virtual exhibit hall include: Chant Inc. i...

When you read or hear the term "Big Data" what do you think about?  Do you visualize an extremely large database or data warehouse?  Do you think about architectures and algorithms for storing and processing big data?  When haven't we had big data in relation to the systems and services that we are asked to program?  Is yesterday's big data small data today?  With the Internet and the number of humans creating and consuming data, I guess we do have really big data today and it is only getting bi...

Большинство моих коллег-друзей-знакомых  администрируют базы данных, поэтому для них вполне естественно подключаться к БД с максимальными правами DBA. В то же время, Embarcadero DB Optimizer могут с успехом применять и разработчики программного обеспечения, предназначенного работать на стороне сервера БД. Написав сложную процедуру, триггер или запрос на SQL они сразу могут проверить, насколько это работает производительно и эффективно, провести тестирование работоспособности кода под планируемо...

I continue to hear from developers who tell me that they either didn't hear about previous Embarcadero product  special offers or couldn't take advantange of them at the time.   Here is a month of opportunities for all of you. There are four special offers that are available until the end of March 2011 for developers using Embarcadero  tools.  Thirty one days to take advantage of savings on our developer and database tools. Here are the currently available offers that end March 31st. Up...

December 22 - 3 days until Christmas.  I can almost hear the reindeer on my roof. I am out of the office, now, until after the first of the year.  But, that doesn't mean that I am off the computer, off email or off my blog.  No matter where I am in the world, I can almost always stay connected to the development world. We're past the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is just around the corner. On Demand Webinar Replays If you have time off too, you might consider usi...

Monday, Decembeer 20 - the last of the weekdays before Christmas - Helping others with our skills, the Lunar Eclipse, Developer Solutions Conference 2011 and our year-end promotions This past weekend we put up our tree at home.  Christmas carols are playing on the Comcast "Songs of the Season" channel.  The weather has been stormy and wet here in Santa Cruz California. Helping non-profit organizations with our programming and database skills Seasons greetings to all of the developers ar...

December 16 - 9 more days until it's Christmas!  We are now in the single digits countdown to Christmas Day.  You still have plenty of time to get your shopping done (especially if you do it online -perhaps using one of our Embarcadero Shop Sites), fill those stockings with stuffers and send out those holiday eCards, eMails and even real stamped cards.  I've been doing my other temporary job, Santa Claus, in San Francisco (yesterday) and today in Scotts Valley.  It's so much fun to see the ki...