Jim Douglas

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CodeGear's current CEO (as of July 2007). Replaced Ben Smith.

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Aloha C++0x

(2007, 04.Oct. 01:12)

There is something significant happening on Hawaii’s Big Island. No, Kilauea is not erupting again. However, the event taking place will have an impact for years to come. The ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG21 - C++ Standards Committee is meeting in Kona this week. In order to meet their goal of delivering C++0x in 2009, they must walk [...]

Super Happy . . .

(2007, 10.Aug. 13:15)

For those of you in Silicon Valley, I ran across a great group the other day call SuperHappyDevHouse (http://superhappydevhouse.org/). It’s a group that organizes a series of events for passionate technologists to get together, share ideas, meet new like minded people . . . and have fun. The DevHouse is trying to “resurrect the spirit of [...]

Spasibo!

(2007, 11.Jun. 17:59)

I want to (once again) thank our Moscow Delphi Community Leaders for taking the time to meet with me during my visit to Moscow last week. After speaking to a group of ~200 Delphi and C++ developers at a CodeGear sponsored seminar, I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours with our [...]

Drivin’ That Train . . .

(2007, 23.May. 12:43)

Sorry . . . I couldn’t help myself. I had to make the Dead reference given I wanted to talk about Rails! I had the opportunity to spend about six hours at RailsConf 2007 in Portland last week. Great experience! The show was attended by 1,600 absolute zealots. I arrived at the conference midway through [...]

Product roadmaps on the way . . .

(2007, 21.May. 18:43)

The day I started at CodeGear, I got peppered by folks inside the company about publishing product road maps. I subsequently held two Community Chats later in my first week and got pummeled by customers regarding our lack of published road maps. My response to both constituencies was "I got it, we’re on it." [...]

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