CodeGear Developer Network (CDN) - Community Newsletter - January 2008

By: David Intersimone

Abstract: CodeGear (from Borland) Developer Network (CDN) News is an email newsletter for members of the CodeGear Developer Network.

Members receive this newsletter by email if they expressed an interest (by setting the CDN News flag in your member profile) in getting community news updates. You can update your membership information, email address, and contact flags at
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First of all, Happy New Year from Codegear! Thank you for being a part of our CodeGear community.
Sincerely,
David Intersimone "David I"
Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist
davidi@codegear.com

    The Delphi 2008 Survey is now available

The main survey is in English, but we’ll be translating the survey into as many languages as possible. If you aren’t comfortable with the English version, please check back as we get new versions posted.

We use this survey to determine how our customers use Delphi, what they want going forward, and to decide what our future plans should be. We appreciate the time that you guys take to fill this out. Your feedback is very valuable and important to us.

If you’d like to help out with translating, please contact nick.hodges@codegear.com We’d appreciate any and all translation help.

You'll find he CDN article about the survey at
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37604

You'll find the English version of the survey at
  http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s31894.htm

    JBuilder 2007 named Best Java IDE by InfoWorld

JBuilder 2007 was highlighted in InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology of the Year awards. You can read the news at
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37513

News coverage of JBuilder 2007's InfoWorld Best Java IDE of 2007 award - The article contains titles and links to some of the coverage of JBuilder 2007 being awarded Best Java IDE for 2007 by InfoWorld magazine.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37559

    Recent CDN articles and blog entries

Delphi Case Study: Euclid Technology - ClearVantage from Euclid Technology - Integrated CRM, ERP, eCommerce and Web Content management
  http://www.codegear.com/article/34372/images/34372/Euclid-case-study.pdf

JBuilder Case Study: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Collecting, managing, and disseminating information for oceanographic research
  http://www.codegear.com/article/34448/images/34448/MBARI-case-study.pdf

Enable JGear inside Eclipse 3.2 - Step-by-Step tutorial
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37568

The CodeGear RAD Studio Reviewers Guide - This document is designed to be used by reviewers and other people wanting to know the basic features and functionality of CodeGear RAD Studio 2007, with an emphasis on "What's New".
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37599

Getting the Best Results with RAD Studio Online Help - Describes how to use the help and the help viewer, and how to search the help successfully.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37562

Software Archeology and Application Factories - Cover stories in Java Developer's Journal and Eclipse Magazine by CodeGear's Michael Rozlog and Ravi Kumar
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37560

The Complete Guide to ODBC Escape Sequences in InterBase - ODBC Escape Sequences are SQL extension for writing SQL queries which will be compatible with many DBMS. The complete guide includes descriptions and samples for 69 scalar functions and 3 escape sequences.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37

CodeGear video competition final results - This article lists community member entries in the CodeGear video competition. The final results are announced and the winners determined.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37507

Question: how small is small enough?
  http://blogs.codegear.com/michaelrozlog/2008/01/29/36923/

Meanwhile, back at the (Unicode) ranch
  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/28/38853/

Native Code is not Dead
  http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/01/24/38857/

Taking a big PByte of pointer math
  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/24/38852/

Installing a Delphi for .NET Windows Service
  http://blogs.codegear.com/dclegg/2008/01/23/41/

Simmering Unicode, bring DPL to a boil
  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/17/38849/

Simmering Unicode, bring DPL to a boil (Part 2)
  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/18/38850/

Breaking the rules
  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/01/22/38851/

CDN RSS feeds that we’re experimenting with
  http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/01/22/38855/

    Upcoming and online and in-person CodeGear events and replays

EKON Spring 2008 – The Road to Delphi!
25.-28. February 2008 – Frankfurt – Mörfelden
CodeGear booth and presentations
  http://entwickler-konferenz.de/

SD West 2008
March 3-7 2008, Santa Clara, CA
CodeGear booth - come and see us.
CodeGear competing in Developers Bowl
  http://sdexpo.com/2008/west/

EclipseCon 2008
March 17-20 2008, Santa Clara, CA
CodeGear booth - stop by and say hello
Michael Rozlog presentation on Software Archeology
  http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/

Common 2008 Annual Meeting
March 30 - April 3 2008, Nashville, TN
CodeGear booth - come and see what we're doing with Delphi
  http://www.common.org/conferences/2008/annual/index.html

Evans Data Developer Relations Conference
April 7-8 2008, Burlingame, CA
David Intersimone presentation
  http://www.evansdata.com/drc/

JavaOne 2008
May 6 - 9 2008, San Francisco, CA
CodeGear booth - stop by and see what we're doing with Java
  http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/

RailsConf 2008
May 29-June 1 2008, Portland, OR
CodeGear booth - see the latest things we are doing for Rails and Ruby
  http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home

Live Webinar: What's New in RAD Studio 2007 for Delphi Developers?
Tuesday, February 5th, 10am GMT / 11am CET
The webinar will highlight new Delphi language features, new DBX4 Database Architecture and Visual Query Builder, and ASP.NET 2.0 development.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37548

Live Webinar: Agile techniques for building quality into Delphi applications.
Tuesday, February 5, 14:00 (GMT) / 15:00 (CET).
This live session will include a number of key topics including: Unit Testing, Visualisation, Code Analysis, Design, Documentation and Project/Build Management.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37550

Live Webinar: C++Builder 2007.
Wednesday, February 6, 2pm GMT (3pm CET, 6am PT)
In this live session the C++Builder product manager Alisdair Meredith will explain the latest features in C++Builder 2007.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37583

Live Webinar: Effective DBX4 database architecture programming.
Tuesday, February 12, 10am GMT / 11am CET
In this Web Seminar, attendees will be led through the new DBX4 Database Architecture that now ships with RAD Studio 2007.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37587

Live Webinar: What's New in RAD Studio 2007 for Delphi Developers?
Tuesday, March 4th, 10am GMT / 11am CET
The webinar will highlight new Delphi language features, new DBX4 Database Architecture and Visual Query Builder, and ASP.NET 2.0 development.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37549

Live Webinar: DBX4 for BDE Developers.
Tuesday, March 4th 2pm (GMT) / 3pm (CET)
This live webinar session will focus on the database side of updating an existing application from the BDE to using dbExpress.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37586

Live Webinar: Agile techniques for building quality into Java applications.
Tuesday, March 11, 14:00 (GMT) / 15:00 (CET).
This live session will demonstrate how application quality can be improved by utilising capabilities found within JBuilder and JGear Eclipse Plug-ins.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37551

For a complete list of upcoming live webinars (taking place on European time), go to   http://www.codegear-events.eu/

For more country specific events please go to the regional pages.

    CodeGear in the news

CodeGear Software Development Tools To Be Installed on up to 1 Million PC’s in Russian School System. Russian Federal Agency of Education Standardizes on CodeGear. Products for Teaching Software Programming.
  http://dn.codegear.com/article/37606

Software Archeology - What it is and why you should care JDJ (January, 2008)
  http://www.codegear.com/article/34017/images/34017/software-archeology.pdf

CodeGear™ JBuilder® 2007 Is Named Best Java Integrated Development Environment of the Year by InfoWorld (January 8, 2008)
  http://www.codegear.com/article/37512

Capturing Developer Intent in Eclipse via Application Factories Eclipse Magazine
  http://www.codegear.com/article/34268/images/34268/EclipseMagazine_Vol17-v2.pdf

After Year, CodeGear Steers Its Own Course SD Times
  http://www.codegear.com/article/34017/images/34017/sdtimes188-v2.pdf

CodeGear: A Year After the Borland Spinout eWeek
  http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/CodeGear-A-Year-After-the-Borland-Spinout/

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  http://www.codegear.com/shop

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