This blog post will cover basic usage of InterBase and Python using Eclipse. Install PyDev using the Eclipse IDE Install Python3.4 Configure Eclipse to use Python Download the FDB 1.4.9 driver sources Edit the sources to use the InterBase client library gds32.dll instead of the default FireBird Client library Install the driver to your local Python Environment Write a simple test to connect  

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...

From the Eclipse Galileo press release: June 24, 2009 – "For the sixth year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered its annual release train on its scheduled date. Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code. Over 380 committers from 44 different organizations participated to make this release possible." Eclipse Galileo Web Site Eclipse downloads...

Hello from Beijing.  I am at the last stop on a three week application development and database development tour and vacation trip in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China.  While on the trip I have visited with many developers, customers, community leaders, and even a university (Hohai University in Nanjing).  Loads of excitement about the developer tools being part of Embarcadero Technologies (even if it is still harder to pronounce and spell than CodeGear - especially in Japan and China). ...

JBuilder 2008 includes Instantiations' Swing Designer™ GUI development product integrated in the IDE. If you are a Java developer and need to create applications using the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), or the Google Web Toolkit, Instantiations' makes the tools you need. These Java development tools are now available, for sale on our shop sites, Instantiations' SWT and GWT designers as well as their WindowTester GUI test tool. Availabe on our shop site are: SWT Designer, an Ecl...

Roy Nelson works for DTG in our UK office.  He is always sending me great links to news of interest to developers.  It's so great to wake up each morning and see the latest tasty bits of news that Roy has scanned eight hours earlier.  Here are a few of the recent items that Roy has sent along.  Thanks Roy!!! Google Code Search - advanced search lets you choose Delphi, C, C++, Pascal, C#, and other languages Quest for Bedroom Programmers Borland Database Conference Hawaiian Shirts and Al...

Some of the DTG team had lunch the other day with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.  It is always a pleasure to meet with the pre-eminent evangelist for Eclipse.  During lunch Mike reminded us of several important Eclipse milestones (not the software milestone kind). Happy 5th birthday Eclipse celebrations will be happening around the world on or about November 7th.  Go to the birthday party web site at http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipsebirthday5/birthdaypa...

I was reading a press release about the new Eclipse project focused on building a parallel tools platform. The project is headed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From the project home page, the goal is to "produce an open-source industry-strength platform that provides a highly integrated environment specifically designed for parallel application development.". You can read more about the Eclipse Parallel Tools Project at http://www.eclipse.org/ptp/. There are many parallel languages be...

JBuilderX has a great Open Tools Api (OTA).  There are more than 500 tools and component libraries supporting the JBuilder underlying development platform framework.  I've known the JBuilder OTA for years now.  But I have done nothing with the Eclipse tools API. So, I am sitting in the “Contributing to Eclipse - Understanding and Writing Plug-ins” hands on tutorial at the Fifth International XP 2004 conference in Garmisch.  So far I have written a simple viewer plug-in.  Later, I'll extend it...