In today’s interconnected world, companies in all industries need to publish APIs and cultivate a developer community to access and use them. To be competitive today, attracting and supporting developers is essential. The key to cultivating a vibrant developer community that uses your APIs and supports your platform is a good developer relations program. After 43+ years in programming and 31+ years at Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero I have joined the Evans Data Corporation team. At...

I am at the annual Evans Data Developer Relations conference (#drc2016) this week in Palo Alto, California. This is the 12th year that this conference has taken place. It is the one conference where developer relations team members from a wide collection of hardware, platform, service and software companies get together and discuss best practices, technical details, developer evangelism, developer marketing and everything else related to helping developers create cool apps and leverage APIs...