CodeGear/Embarcadero Developer Network Newsletter - January 2009 - DataRage, Delphi Developer Days, etc.

CodeGear/Embarcadero Developer Network Newsletter - January 2009
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First ever DataRage virtual conference!
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Save the Date for DataRage - Week of March 16, 2009

Following on the successes of the CodeRage virtual conference series,
Embarcadero is proud to announce DataRage! A FREE multi-day virtual
conference filled with beneficial content specifically designed for
database professionals: DBA's, data architects, database developers,
security architects and more!

CALL FOR PAPERS - You are invited to submit abstracts for consideration
as a speaker at DataRage. Please submit an abstract for each of your
proposed presentations. Please read all information carefully.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 30, 2009.

DataRage Home Page - http://conferences.codegear.com/datarage/

Call for Papers - http://conferences.codegear.com/datarage/c4p

The conference is currently scheduled for the week of March 16th with
announcements coming soon on specific days as the agenda is completed.
We will be creating an agenda that ensures GLOBAL participation, ensuring
viewers from Europe and Asia as well as North America can view presentations
and participate in Q&A in the comfort of their time zones.

DataRage will include sessions covering Embarcadero products such as
DBArtisanR, Performance Center, Rapid SQLR, Change ManagerT, ER/StudioR,
DB OptimizerT and more. It will also include topics related to your roles
as data architects, developers and DBAs and the technologies you use and
are interested in such as Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Embarcadero
InterBase, IBM DB2 and more. You'll even find some sessions on our award
winning CodeGearT products as well! We're scoping out the best speakers
right now and building an awesome program of totally technical sessions.


Your thoughts on Third-party products
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We've put together some surveys about third-party support for our
products, what the best ones are, who you like, etc. You'll find
the surveys at:

Delphi - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?
sm=GBvpD4z7nfeovw53WM5_2bYw_3d_3d

C++Builder - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?
sm=UAw1LpTD5xe6u3BeEg1qsA_3d_3d

Delphi Prism - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?
sm=u0MuvK9Qikvc97_2bzA4W1QA_3d_3d


Webinar: Reducing Time and Costs with a Model-driven Development Approach - Feb 10,
11am PST
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Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM PST/ 2:00 PM EST - Duration: 1 hour
Presenters: Nick Hodges - Delphi Product Manager, Jason Tiret - Director of Modeling

With the explosion of data within the enterprise and the need to truly
understand how the data is used and accessed across your applications,
businesses are elevating the importance modeling and improving how data
is accessed. Today's leading companies are taking data modeling to the
next level and using it to respond to changing business conditions, reduce
data redundancy and improve development productivity.

In this webinar, you will learn how to take a model-driven development
approach with Delphi and RAD Studio 2009 Architect editions, powered by
ER/Studio Developer Edition, to easily forward and reverse-engineer, analyze,
and optimize existing databases. Taking a model-driven development approach
reduces long-term costs by improving developer productivity and application
performance.

To register for the webinar go to:
http://emb.rsys1.net/servlet/website/ResponseForm?
LtmE7ss7JJLll_3LIpgHk_.40LITC_bgOpmL


Delphi Developer Days 2009
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Two Intense Days of Delphi
Featuring Marco Cantu and Cary Jensen
www.DelphiDeveloperDays.com

Marco Cantu and Cary Jensen are proud to present Delphi Developer Days,
a live seminar that will visit two cities in the United States in the
spring of 2009. This intense two-day Delphi event will visit the
Washington DC/Baltimore-Washington International Airport area on March 30-31,
and the greater Chicago area on April 2-3.

This is a one-of-a-kind event, bringing together top Delphi experts Cary
Jensen and Marco Cantu. Whether you are using the latest version of Delphi,
or are developing with an older version, you will come away with loads of
information that will improve your development and make you more productive.

All attendees will receive:

* An extensive course book written by Marco and Cary that includes
all the material covered in all sessions

* Source code examples from all of the sessions

* Lunch on both days

Space is limited to the first 35 registrants in each city. Register early
and receive an additional 10% discount on the price of this event.

For complete Delphi Developer Days information visit:
http://www.DelphiDeveloperDays.com


Delphi Live 2009 - Physical Delphi Conference in the US
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Where: San Jose, CA, USA
When: May 13th - 16th 2009
Who: All Delphi developers, let it be Delphi Win 32, Delphi Prism or Delphi for PHP ones.

Stay tuned for the call for papers and additional conference information

http://www.monien.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/delphilive-2009-physical-delphi-
conference-in-the-us/


How do you get your software and database development product, news, and other bits?
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database administrators how you get (or would like to get) your product,
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You can also add additional comments about the other ways you get your
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Conferences, Events, and Webinars
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Your place or mine? As part of our Delphi outreach in the US and Canada,
we would love to meet you and talk about all things Delphi and Embarcadero!
http://blogs.codegear.com/ao/2009/01/26/38978

January 28, 2009 Ensure Performance and Availability and Easily Share Data Across the
Enterprise
http://emb.rsys1.net/servlet/website/ResponseForm?
LtmEb8fV_3LIpgHk_cHgTC_bgOpmL

Delphi Conference Latin America - February 24 (Mexico D.F.), 25 (Guadalajara)
http://latam.codegear.com/es/delphiconference/

entwickler TAGE 2009 Spring Edition 23-27 Februar, Darmstadt, Germany
Die ultimativen Power Workshops zu Java, .NET, PHP, und Delphi
http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/entwicklertage/

DataRage - week of March 16, 2009
http://conferences.codegear.com/datarage/

Delphi Developer Days 2009 - March 30-31 (Washington DC), April 2-3 (Chicago)
http://www.DelphiDeveloperDays.com

Delphi Live 2009 - May 13-16 (San Jose, California)
http://www.monien.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/delphilive-2009-physical-delphi-
conference-in-the-us/

On Demand Developer Tool product webinars can be found at
http://www.codegear.com/webinars

Recorded Database Tool product webinars can be found at
http://www.embarcadero.com/news/events.jsp


Recent Articles and blog posts
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May I borrow two minutes of your time, please? Check out these very
short CodeRage III replay teasers by Anders Ohlsson
http://dn.codegear.com/article/39243

Greg Keller, just back from Embarcadero's 2009 Sales Kick-off, blogs about
the theme 'ignite'...as in we want to light the wick that is going to
absolutely blow some stuff up in the community!
http://metafrequency.blogspot.com/2009/01/56-quarters.html

White Paper: Building User Interfaces with Delphi 2009 - An Improved
Visual Component Library Streamlines Modern Windows Application Development
http://dn.codegear.com/article/39226

Building rock-solid Delphi applications with SmartInspect and
EurekaLog - This article demonstrates how to combine and benefit from
both the advanced logging capabilities of SmartInspect to log application
data and user actions, and from the excellent crash reporting capabilities
of EurekaLog to receive exception and crash information from end-users
via email and web.
http://dn.codegear.com/article/39115

Change Happens - New Release for a New Year
http://gordon-lucas.blogspot.com/2009/01/as-bubble-put-it-in-absolutely-fabulous.html

The Future of the Delphi Compiler - This article provides an overview on
the status and future of the Delphi compiler.
http://dn.codegear.com/article/39174

JBuilder 2008 Technical Videos
http://dn.codegear.com/article/38233

Right Brained
http://metafrequency.blogspot.com/2009/01/right-brained.html

Getting Started with Delphi DataSnap 2009
http://blogs.codegear.com/pawelglowacki/2009/01/20/38649/

Calculating Pi
http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/2009/01/09/39174

Rozlog's Top 10 Software Development predictions for 2009
http://blogs.codegear.com/michaelrozlog/2009/01/05/36955

Bjarne Stroustrup on educating software developers
http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2009/01/22/39477/

CodeRage III on YouTube - 2-minute teasers from CodeRage III.
http://blogs.codegear.com/ao/2009/01/22/38974/

Delphi 2009 Compatible Third Party Tools & Components
http://dn.codegear.com/article/38459

C++Builder 2009 Compatible Third Party Tools & Components
http://dn.codegear.com/article/38461

CodeRage III: Dec. 1-5 - download the replays
http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage08


Embarcadero News and In The News
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CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 Released - Redmond Developer News
http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=1215

Embarcadero announces InterBaseR SMP 2009
http://www.codegear.com/article/38687

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