2007 is now over.  What a year it was.  Even though there were many changes in our  company and industry this past year, we continued to move forward to deliver state-of-the-art capabilities, deliver new produicts, and respond to customer demands. We shipped new versions of everything (JBuilder 2007 release 2, Delphi 2007, C++Builder 2007, Interbase 2007 for the Macintosh, RAD Studio 2007) and new products including Delphi for PHP, Blackfish SQL, and 3rdRail.  We also delivered updates and bu...

You can use our CodeGear product "built with" and "powered by" logos in your applications, on your web sites, in your packaging, and everywhere else to tell the world that you used one (or more of our products). The logos are available from a CDN article and also in Code Central. We've received several requests for logos for Delphi for .NET and will get those posted as soon as we can.  For now you can use the built with and powered by Delphi logos for both Delphi and Delphi .NET based appl...

CodeRage II day one is complete.  We had more than 1500 registered attendees.  So many, that we had to open up more slots for attendees to join the fun.  Tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, there are still almost 40 technical sessions taking place for Java, C++, Delphi, PHP, InterBase, Ruby and Rails, and some partner and fun sessions as well.  Don't miss out on the free technical training sessions.  You can register at http://video.codegear.com/coderage/ragewithus.exe/register We have tw...

From the IDG internet news feed: Google's Android mobile platform uses its own virtual machine for Java and not Sun's Java Micro Edition platform.  Google and Sun may Android's virtual machine is named Dalvik.  The article quoted Stefano Mazzocchi, a developer and board member at Apache Labs, who is quoted saying that Sun may not have seen this coming. Seems to me like a strange speculation, because earlier this month, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, congratulated Google, Red Hat,...

I have been travelling to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Washington DC for the past four weeks.  While catching up on some of my article and blog reading backlog, a couple of articles caught my eye. Why Isn't Facebook Built in Java?  Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? Java Remains #1 Programming Language, But Ruby Is Now 10th. Ruby is now the 10th most popular programming language, up from 13th place a year ago. Google's Android Mobile Platform VB6 ...

CodeGear is on the Java Community Process Committee Elections 2007 ballot.  We are running for a seat on the Java Standard Edition/Enterprirse Edition executive committee.  If you are a Java Community Process member, please consider voting for CodeGear in this year's election. CodeGear's election qualification statement is available at https://www.jcpelection2007.org/jcp/qualifications?company_id=8521&committee=1 Elections will run from 9 AM Pacific Time, October 30, 2007, through midn...

On August 13, 2007, Mike Rozlog and I gave a presentation, "Meeting the Challenges of Java development", at the Real World Java seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.  I presented a quick CodeGear overview.  Mike gave a technical demonstration of software archeology using JBuilder 2007. Watch the replay on SYS-CON TV (you just have to register to receive an email with the URL for the replay)....

October 21, 2007 article on the InternetNews.com web site contains a recent interview with James Gosling, "the father of Java". The interview article starts by stating, "There is strength in numbers, but Java's future -- as well as the long-term acceptance of NetBeans and other Sun products -- depends on how well these technologies play in the enterprise market and adapt to changes in the open systems landscape."  Read the entire interview at http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.p...

With more processor cores to leverage, we can’t defer all the work to the operating system, virtual machine, and threading API(s). In order to take full advantage of these architectures, we will have to re-engineer our software development efforts to take full advantage of the growing ubiquity of parallel processing power in every server, desktop, and device. OpenMP gives us an simple, portable, scalable API that supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming for C++ and Fortran. ...

JBuilder 2007 and our recently announced JGear products support many Java standards.  Our JBuilder roadmap also discusses our support for future Java directions.  Here is a summary of some of the Java standards supported by JBuilder 2007 and our recently JGear products.  How does JBuilder 2007 support new Java standards? The Java market is fast moving and imposes a high demand for innovation on the Java Community Process (JCPSM). Many development organizations differentiate themselves by f...