"For Your and Our Freedom" - see it on dwarfland.com (and another view)

Denkmal des polnischen Soldaten und deutschen Antifaschisten (Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists)
Volkspark Friedrichshain, Berlin; Today.

With Visual Studio 2008 RTM'ed last week, we at RemObjects are happy to discontinue one of our best-selling product SKUs: "Chrome with Visual Studio", the edition where you could pay $50 extra when buying Chrome to get the full Visual Studio IDE, is no more.

What's going on? simple: We wanted all our users to get the benefit of using the new version of Visual Studio, and so we're making the Visual Studio 2008 available to everyone, now.

So what changes?

If you already own Visual Studio 2008 - nothing new for you. You can continue to download the standard 15MB installs that will integrate into your existing IDE. Similar, of course, if you have a prior version of Visual Studio and (for whatever reasons) don't want 2008.

If you don't have Visual Studio 2008, you can grab our 350MB "w/ Visual Studio" setup, and it will install .NET 3.5 and the IDE for you. If you're already using 2003 or 2005, no worries, setup will cleanly install Visual Studio 2008 alongside them (and integrate Chrome with all three versions).

Finally, if you are trial user, you too can now grab the full install from remobjects.com/trials and try out both Chrome and Visual Studio 2008 at the same time! The ability to do this has been one of the most-often received requests, and we're happy to finally be able and provide the full trial experience!

So, enjoy 'Joyride' and Visual Studio 2008.

Yours,
marc hoffman
Chief Architect

fire up your msdn and start the download - Visual Studio 2008 RTM is available!

Or, on second thought - please wait 2 more hours until my download is done, and then go get it ;)

Alex Faaborg of the User Experience team for Firefox has posted an interesting look at some of the new UI changes that are coming in Firefox 3. I'm a big fan of getting UI "just right", myself (as anyone who deals with UI here at RemObjects can attest to ;), and Alex brings up some interesting points, both in terms of the concrete Firefox UI he is showing, but also on a more conceptual level. A long post, but well worth the read (as are most of his other posts).

It's been a while since my last post (with text ;), and i apologize. A lot of interesting things have been going on at RemObjects that have been keeping me busy.

As some of you might have seen, on thursday we announced a a new product to our portfolio, AnyDAC 2.0 for Delphi. Developed by Dmitry Arefiev of DA-SOFT, AnyDAC is not an entirely new product, and version 1.0 has been around for a while and is successfully used by thousands of Delphi and Free Pascal developers every day.

For version 2.0, Dmitry felt the product would benefit from the experience and infrastructure provided by a company such us ours, and so we decided to work together and bring AnyDAC into the fold. Given our existing product portfolio, AnyDAC is a perfect fit, as it closes the one remaining gap in our end-to-end data access strategy that so far relied on third party solutions: talking to the physical back-end databases. AnyDAC will integrate seamlessly with Data Abstract for Delphi to provide the entire data access story from one hand, now (although Data Abstract will of course continue to use its open driver model and to support third party drivers).

We're very excited to have Dmitry on board and be working with him on this, and so far the response we have received both from our customers and existing AnyDAC users has been tremendous – everyone is very excited about the possibilities this cooperation will bring.

Over the next couple months we will be busy finalizing the integration and getting AnyDAC 2.0 ready to be shipped along with our general .29 releases in February. In the mean time, we are looking for a few more good and committed beta testers – so if you are interested, please let me know.

More details about out AnyDAC can be found in our announcement at remobjects.com/anydac.

Oh, and one more thing: of course AnyDAC for Delphi will automatically be available to all our Suite Subscription customers, as soon as the final release is done.

"There's a Hole in the Sky" - see it on dwarfland.com

Berlin, August 15, 2007.