The "Why Upgrade To Enterprise" webinar series continues! Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 8th, 11am CET, I'm going to do a live developer webinar about "Modeling Code with Delphi Enterprise". This webinar will be recorded and repeated later during the day for other timezones. The webinar is free, but you need to register here. UML Modeling is a very rich subject. It is probably one of the least used Delphi features. Maybe because of the visual "Rapid Application Development" paradigm that D...

In the webinar, Demystifying Macros with ER/Studio, Embarcadero Software Consultant Stanley Chan demonstrated how macros work in ER/Studio. He showed how to use the built-in macros and also shared some custom macros during the session. If you missed the live presentation, you can watch it on demand. There were a lot of great questions during the session, some of which Stan didn’t have time to answer live. So he has provided responses to several of those for this blog. Q: In the color-coding de...

Are you tired of people finding errors in your data models once they go to build an application on top of that fine database you designed for them?  Would you like to be in on a secret that others have to spend thousands of hours in the gym to accomplish?  Well I have the solution for you.  All you have to do is call in the next 7:00 minutes with your credit card number handy.   Hold on.   I first heard about this trick during one of my EDW sessions on database desig...

I had a recent email exchange in which a customer was looking for guidance in developing data models for master data entities used across multiple business functions and domains. One of the motivating factors was the desire for evolving a “golden record” (a term that makes me bristle each time I hear it, by the way) for each master entity type – a golden customer record, a golden product record, etc. I expressed my concern about two things: attempting to create a model intended to represent a s...

Sometimes you need to face the inevitable: the tool selected years ago is not the one you need for the future. Have you been struggling with complicated modeling tasks or outdated tools? Are your data models getting too big to handle? We’ve heard from a lot of customers recently who have been frustrated with their old data modeling tools, for multiple reasons such as: Lack of functionality Lack of support Lack of a future roadmap Embarcadero is committed to enabling our users to adapt to...

You can now watch episodes 7 and 8 of the US/Canada Developer Direct Q2-2013 series.  Each Friday at 10am, Anders Ohlsson, Al Mannarino and David Intersimone "David I" answer your questions, cover a development topic and cover the latest news for developers. There is just one more Friday for this series on June 14, the "Season Finale".  If you have topics and demos you want the Developer Direct team to cover, send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // . Embarcadero Developer D...

With the upcoming release of our new C++Builder compiler for 64-bit Windows (will have C++11 standard support), Embarcadero Technologies continues our commitment for the C, C99 and C++ languages that started on May 13, 1987 with the first release of Turbo C version 1.0.  The C++Builder 64-bit Windows compiler is coming soon. For the past 25+ years, we have continued to innovate with industry leading development environments, compilers, tools, run-time libraries and tool chains. Today and int...

The CodeRage 6 Friday, October 21 (the last day of this year's CodeRage) session replay have been uploaded to CodeCentral.  While you are downloading the repays, you'll have plenty of time to check out the Virtual Exhibit Hall and see the special offers from our technology partners. Many of their offers are good for the next several weeks.  If you don't already have our XE2 products, you should immediately download the trials and try many of the techniques you learned this week at CodeRage.  If ...

On June 2, 2011 the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 1.8% (annual rate) increase in non-farm business sector labor during the first quarter of 2011. For the manufacturing sector there was a 4.2% growth in productivity for Q1 2011. Most businesses measure the productivity of their employees.  In Software Project Management we can measure the completion of development milestones, feature completion, bug close ratios, check-ins, and other aspects of developing software...

I am in the constant search for knowledge of all kinds. While I continue my search in the areas of software engineering and computer programming, I also explore other areas where software might be used.  In my undergraduate studies at Cal Poly Computer Science (1969-1973) I took a range of non-computer science courses as part of my degree.  The Cal Poly "Learn by Doing" philosophy expanded our knowledge to include areas where computers and software would be used in my future career.  After gradu...