1st half is Original Japanese content. English translated content is on second half 第33回デベロッパーキャンプ・イン・大阪で、来場者の方より「VMwareで RAD Studio で開発しているけど仮想マシンが遅くて困っている」というご相談を頂きました。 最近では仮想マシンを開発で使うことは普通の作業になっていますが、VMware Workstation/Fusionの仮想マシン設定は各種リソースを控え目に使っています。このために初期設定のままでは性能がイマイチの場合があります。そこで、仮想マシンのチューニング項目を挙げてみることにします。

There are only 6 days left to take advantage of the Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio special offers. The last day to take advantage of the offers is June 28, 2010. Following the format of the "Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten list", here are the "number 6" reasons to use Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. 6. Delphi - Build applications that reach more Windows user desktops – with Delphi, you can support multiple Windows desktops without worrying about the specific Window...

Alarm SMS messages and emails are being sent by the performance monitoring system to the production DBA team and the development team alerting everyone that the latest release of a critical business application and the underlying databases are grinding to a halt. The developers, QA team, and DBAs all point fingers at each other. The developers say “My code is perfect. It passed all of the unit, system and load tests.” The QA team says “we tested and certified the code, the SQL, and the database”...

When looking to reduce costs an often overlooked area to consider is the overall costs for the tools needed to design, build, and run your databases and applications. A new comparison report, entitled Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Your Application Development and Database Tools”, provides straightforward guidelines for evaluating and comparing costs for database tools. In this comparison report you’ll learn: How “hidden” costs can be four times higher than direct software licensi...

I received an email from a community member asking how to set up a datasource for our database optimization tools and Java optimization tools (DB Optimizer and J Optimizer) to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. "From: Jacques (in Australia) - Hi David, I have installed the Optimization tools. I cannot add a datasource. I am using DBArtisan and i never had any problem creating or connecting to datasource. Is there anything i need to do to see or create a datasource I am trying to connect to MS SQL...

Yesterday, in Moscow, I presented (for the first time) our solution seminar titled "Software + Database Archeology" using Delphi 2009, our database tools, and some third party tools. Thank you to the developers in Moscow for being the first field test viewers. To develop the seminar (with the help of others inside Embarcadero, thanks team), we started with our Software Archeology methodology application development solution and extended it to include the database parts of most applications. ...

We recently announced new application development and database tuning and performance tools.  We are now shipping JOptimizer for Java and DB Optimizer for multiple databases.  These tools help you tune Java and SQL code.  Several magazines and web sites covered the announcement.  You can find the links below. This week we are also having a free webinar, "Code Faster Apps, Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks, Maximize IT Spend", Prevent, Find, Fix: The three step solution for top-performing appl...