Original post (5/29/2008): This Saturday, May 31, at 10am Pacific Time, I'll be appearing on the GeekSpeak program on KUSP FM radio here in Santa Cruz.  KUSP streams live on the Internet (34k mp3 stream / 128k mp3 stream).  The show will also be available as a podcast on NPR. The description for this week show: Software Development Tools - IDEs allow quicker and easier development of applications, but how does one go about creating a good IDE? Guest David Intersimone from CodeGear will ...

CodeGear is exhibiting at JavaOne in San Francisco this week.   http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/ JavaOne Survival Kit: Free Beer, Great Dev Tools After you see the only morphing, transforming, self-teaching IDE at JavaOne you may feel like celebrating.  If so, let us buy you that beer.  After a long day on the show floor at JavaOne, you may need a break.  Come hoist brews with CodeGear Chief Evangelist David I and SourceForge.net Community Manager Ross Turk as they discuss JBuilder 2008 the Ec...

Dr. Dobbs (DDJ) has posted an interview with CodeGear JBuilder's Principal Architect Ravi Kumar.  In the interview, Ravi talks about capturing developer intent and application knowledge using JBuilder 2008's Application Factories technology.  You can find the interview at http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/207404272. If you are at JavaOne 2008 this week in San Francisco, you can see Application Factories in action at our booth.  Stop by and see how to quickly build working applications from...

It was 25 years ago, today (May 2, 1983) that Borland was founded here in Scotts Valley California (actually the company was formally registered in San Jose California).  Twenty-five years of innovations, product releases, announcements, and events including some listed below. 1983: Borland International founded by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn (CEO) 1983: Turbo Pascal v1.0 released ($49.99) 1984: SideKick launched 1986: Taken public on London's Unlisted Se...

We are here in Bangalore this week for the JAX India 2008 conference.  CodeGear is a silver conference sponsor.  Several talks were given by Ravi Kumar (Principal Architect of JBuilder), Jeff Anders (JBuilder Product Marketing Manager) and myself.  We gave the following talks: Developer UML, Software Archeology, and Introduction to Application Factories.   (Ravi, Jeff, and David I at JAX India 2008) Our booth has been crowded each day with attendees wanting to see more about JBuilder 2008'...

Following the recent announcement of JBuilder 2008 with the new Application Factories capabilities, the R&D team has been creating a series of demonstration and feature videos.  These videos show how to produce and consume resusable modules, how to extend modules, and how to do Application Factory work in the JBuilder IDE. On CDN, you'll find an article that lists the available videos (more videos will arrive over time) and a download link to grab a zip file for each screencast (Flash for...

More articles have appeared in the news following the announcement of JBuilder 2008. Application Factories featured in JBuilder release - SD Times CodeGear cultivates developer intelligence - ZDNet CodeGear announced the availability of JBuilder 2008, its latest version of the IDE for the Java platform based on the Eclipse open source framework - Java Developer Journal Borland and CodeGear tout better software development, Enhanced support for distributed development teams and code re-use ...

Today is April 1st, 2008.  This is blog post is definitely not part of an April Fools Day joke.  We really did announce the newest edition of JBuilder.   The press release is available on CodeGear.com.  You can pre-order JBuilder 2008 on our shop site. Several news articles have already appeared on magazine web sites: JBuilder 2008 puts focus on code reuse - Computerworld, by Heather Havenstein Java IDE adds Application Factories for code reuse - InfoWorld, by Paul Krill In Paul Krill'...

Have your voice heard. Take a minute and tell the editor and readers of JavaWorld that JBuilder is your IDE of choice by posting comments to the informal survey thread on the JavaWorld forums. Go to http://www.javaworld.com/javaforums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=98484 and leave your comments. Athen O'Shea, Editor, JavaWorld.com posted the original message to start the thread.  The discussion is attached to the recent article, by Andrew Binstock, comparing Eclipse v3.3 and NetBeans v6.0. In 2...

I am in Tokyo this week attending the 8th quarterly CodeGear Developer Camp.  On Tuesday I presented a CodeGear update including news about JBuilder Application Factories and also plans for the next update for 3rdRail.  I also presented technical sessions about Ruby on Rails development and higher levels of reuse using Application Factories. Yesterday I attended the Developer Summit 2008 conference in Tokyo.  I took part on a CodeGear Japan sponsored Ruby Community panel discussion.  During t...