Today is my 60th birthday.  My beautiful wife Martha and I are also celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary today (yes, I got married on my 30th birthday).  This Saturday (June 18) will be my 26th year since starting at Borland International in 1985. As part of my birthday and anniversary celebrations, I am issuing a fund raising challenge to all my friends, relatives, community members, and anyone else that I have ever helped in the 42 years since I wrote my first program and my 26 years wo...

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...

Et voila c'est parti pour le CodeWay Tour 2011 avec cette année 8 Villes dans toute la France. Voici les différentes dates : Aix en Provence 10 Mai 2011 Lyon 12 Mai 2011 Toulouse 17 Mai 2011 Bordeaux 19 Mai 2011 Lille 24 Mai 2011 Nantes 31 Mai 2011 Strasbourg 09 Juin 2011 Paris 08 Septembre 2011 Voici l'agenda de la journée : 9h00 : Accueil 9h30 : Introduction 9h45 : Vos données et vos applications accessibles de partout (Datasnap,Cloud,Web...) avec RAD Studio XE 10h45 : Pause...

The InterBase team has announced the general availability of InterBase XE Update 2 (version 10.0.2) maintenance release for Windows and Linux. This release makes InterBase even more stable and ready to address the needs of both 32-bit Editions (Windows/Linux) and 64-bit Edition (Windows) environments. The updates are provided for both English and Japanese versions of InterBase XE. CodeCentral has been updated with links to download the various update kits for production (Windows and Linux) an...

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...

I'm getting more and more fun working on "Delphi Labs" episodes! Today I have published the second part where I demo using Delphi XE for building a multitier database application system consisting of InterBase XE database, Delphi DataSnap server and client. This architecture is very close to the original Delphi MIDAS approach with dataset providers on the server and client datasets on the client communicating with providers via "remote server" connection components. The demo is intentionally ...

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...

December 11 - Special promotions expire in 20 days!  Database Tools for Major DBMS Platforms. It's getting exciting around here.  There are only weeks until Christmas Day.  Next week, I will don my Santa suit and appear in our San Francisco and Scotts Valley offices.  Also, there are only 20 more days until all of Embarcadero's year end special promotions are over.  We have special promotion pricing for you to upgrade your developer tools.  When you upgrade or buy new licenses, you also get y...

December 10:  RadPHP in Action, Facebook and PHP appdev webinars next Tuesday! There are over 20 million PHP servers worldwide, serving up a lot of content on the web - everything from the most used blogging software, WordPress, to websites like Wikipedia. With all of these sites using PHP, there must be something about PHP that helps web developers get their job done better and faster. Our RadPHP in Action web site gives you all the information you need to rapidly and visually take your PHP ...