peace on the web, too

Finally, some action from the Delphi side, related mostly to Vista and the Web.
CodeGear (ex-Borland Developer Tools Group) announces today their new products for 2007:

• Delphi 2007 for Win32
• Delphi for PHP

But the most exiting news is burried in the press release. First:

Delphi for Win32 enables development of Vista supported applications
from the familiar Win32 environment, easy creation of web applications
that support AJAX, and streamlined enterprise database connectivity.

Then:

New
VCL for the Web lets you quickly and visually build interactive and
responsive web pages and applications that support AJAX techniques. VCL
for the Web embeds the low level technologies in visual objects so you
don’t need to know HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or HTTP, abstracting you from
such details so you can focus directly on code and user interface.

And it continues on the Delphi for PHP page:

The powerful
PHP editor and debugger increase coding speed and efficiency, while the
integrated VCL for PHP 5 component class library lets you quickly and
visually create PHP web applications and integrate PHP open source
components.

The old/new Delphi VCL (Visual Components Library) for desktop applications (from Delphi, Kylix, C++Builder), now arrives to the web development world (from Delphi, PHP and maybe Ruby?).

Now that is NEWS! If it really works, this could be really big.

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From Creating Passionate Users.

As you may already know, the Borland Developer Tools Group has been spin-off from Borland in latest 2006. The new company is called CodeGear and it sells IDEs like Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder or C#Builder, formerly known as Borland IDEs.

From some time know there are rumors about new tools oriented to support dynamic and mostly web related languages, as PHP or Ruby.

If you like/use CodeGear tools and would like to see a Ruby or Rails tool from them, please consider filling a survey here: Ruby and Ruby on Rails survey.

At the end of the survey you will be able to apply for a Ruby tool field test ;)

If you have to PAY people to evangelize your product or service, you
probably don’t have a product or service worth evangelizing.

From Creating Passionate Users.

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