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October 2007
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RAD Studio 2007 Updates, SOX, Revenue Recognition
Chris Pattinson
– In the past few weeks, I've had several customers and field testers ask why we don't talk in detail about any of the updates we are working on as we used. I can understand the confusion, it's fairly frustrating on the development side too since the more folks we have jump ...
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The Customer is Always Right
Chris Pattinson
– A basic business theme drilled into me about 16 years ago was the customer is always right. Now, there are some exceptions - but that golden rule implies if you produce products or services that your customers need and want, you'll have a successful business. This was something on the back ...
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Software Test and Performance Conference
Chris Pattinson
– This week, I'm on the road to sharpen and learn about current QA processes. CodeGear has made some great progress in the past few years in terms of functional, performance, stress and user acceptance testing - it's a journey I never really expect to finish since technology will keep moving ...
September 2007
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Process for installing RadStudio 2007/Update 3 using Online Install
Chris Pattinson
– I wrote these instructions in response to a question from SA customers on how to safely install RadStudio 2007. The instructions are mostly aimed at existing D2007 users. The main difference between an Update is when you want to install the full studio, run the setup program and select the upgrade ...
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RADStudio Update 3 Common Issues
Chris Pattinson
– The most common issues I see folks running into are listed below. Feel free to send me email if you find something other then what is listed here. I'd appreciate a QC report logged so it's easy to promote and have the team investigate 1) If you have trouble downloading files, ...
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Delphi 2007/C++Builder 2007 Update 3
Chris Pattinson
– Now that RAD Studio 2007 has RTM'd, we're doing the final preparations for Update 3 - the update all our Delphi 2007 and C++Builder 2007 customers will 'inherit' as part of the RAD Studio 2007 release. Update 3 is similar to Update 1 in how it will uninstall and re-install the product. We ...
August 2007
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Delphi 2007/C++Builder 2007 Update 2
Chris Pattinson
– A critical update for C++Builder 2007 users has been made available, details can be found here: http://dn.codegear.com/article/36777 Now here we found the results of our best intentioned change to allow users to not need to install the 'file cache' to their systems during the main product install. ...
July 2007
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A new status for QC reports - Pending
Chris Pattinson
– We've made a change to how we will handle “Needs More Info” and “Cannot Reproduce” reports in Quality Central. When the Sysop or QA engineer reviewing the report decides on this resolution, we'll put the report into a 'Pending' status. This means that the report could not be ...
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Quality Central Reports
Chris Pattinson
– Quality Central is seeing a fair amount of activity in the past week. To give some insight into 'whats going on' - daily the development managers meet and review the last day of reports into Quality Central, both public and private. We go through as many reports as we can, and try to either promote ...
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Delphi for PHP Update 2 - Field Testers Wanted
Chris Pattinson
– We've been working on an update to Delphi for PHP. This update contains more then 70 fixes and touch most areas of the product. We're looking for field testers to test the update. You do not need to already have Delphi for PHP, so this is also a good way to take a quick preview and ...
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Highlander Field Test - Application Development Contest
Chris Pattinson
– We're going to run a contest during our Highlander field test. It should be fun and a good way to encourage the field testers to work closely with the development team. Call it an 'Iron Chef - Coding' event, if you will. And the ingredient to be served up is .... The new ASP.NET Provider. To enter, ...
June 2007
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Highlander Field Test - Apply Here
Chris Pattinson
– We're starting the field test for the next product release on our roadmap, code named Highlander. Some of the features we want feedback on are ASP.NET features, supporting .NET 2.0/3.0, consumption and creation of parameterized types (“generics“) in Delphi for .NET, Vista support, ECO IV ...
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Quality Central Discussion Session
Chris Pattinson
– Spent an hour with Nick Hodges, John Kaster, Calvin Tang, Jeff Wilsbacher and Mike Devery discussing Quality Central use in CodeGear. We discussed a variety of topics, John also gave a walkthrough of the reporting QC provides, and we took a look at several QC clients. John also made a good point - ...
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More on Quality Central Automated Incident Reports...
Chris Pattinson
– Chris Hesik sent me an email this morning offering to show me the tools he's using to data mine the AIR's in Quality Central. Of course I agreed, and we'll meet on Monday. In addition he sent the following out on an issue he found using this tool to another R&D engineer. ----- I've been doing ...
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Pushing the Quality Central 'clean up'
Chris Pattinson
– Hard numbers - a search this morning on Quality Central resulted in 3980 Reported issues for Delphi. This should include 'everything' - all versions, all locales, feature requests, the works. What's interesting is the C++ number - 144. David Dean (was an active field tester, now a ...
