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Please everyone who visits this blog – start to use the gentalk.biz address instead of the one that you currently use, change your bookmarks and RSS feeds - the feed will be http://gentalk.biz/blog/?feed=rss2 , or using feedburner, it’ll be http://www.feedburner.com/Ca-genWordsAndThoughts

Note that there will be no new posts added here – all new content will be added over at gentalk.biz - and from today (18th September 2007) the hit counter will be disabled in the old blog site, and will not be added to the new site.

The intention is that after the EDGE EMEA 2007 Conference in Ditton Park, London, 30th September -2nd October, this site will display a “closed”-type sign, and will be inactive, but will be there for historical viewing until (possibly Christmas 2007) at which point it will be decommissioned for good!

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Total Eclipse of Gen – possibly ?

Listening to the latest EDGE webcast, one of the things that will be in R8 of Gen is a move toward an Eclipse-based IDE.

It would be great if we could get into the Eclipse-based development community (see this post) and open Gen up to the world.

It seems that there is a DEFINITE move to the Eclipse-based toolset – the new Diagram Trace Facility is Eclipse-based, so the whole Gen toolset will eventually be Eclipse based.

Could it look like this ? (click to get a better view!)

This is a mock-up by me, but maybe the shape of things to come. For a while, the Gen iterface has looked dated, and this could be the update it needs. In addition, the podcast talks about a potential re-architecting of the toolset – what more could this mean ? Could it be the start of a new life for the tool ? Hopefully CA are begining to invest more time and effort in it, and push it toward becoming the tool of choice. It has it all – a code repository, multi-database and platform support, mixed platform support – need I go on ?

EDGE podcasts – get ‘em !!!

EDGE - the Gen user group has started to put together a series of podcasts – the first (see last post) was by John Swainson. The next contains a preview of EDGEucate 2007 and EDGE EMEA 2007.

Get the podcasts here at the EDGE website.

John Swainson podcast supports Gen !!!!

Fantastic news!

CA’s President and CEO John Swainson speaks about the value that CA Gen brings to global organizations, trends in the market, CA’s commitment to CA Gen and the strength of EDGE as a user community.

Play it here:

Duration: 3 minutes, 8 seconds

John Swainson, President and CEO of CA, has great influence over the direction and evolution of CA Gen. This 3-minute informational podcast includes a discussion focusing on why he supports CA Gen and EDGE. He also discusses how CA is actively working on CA Gen release 8. Listen to John share his thoughts on the future of CA Gen and how you can make a difference in this plan by attending EDGEucate 2007, October 28-31 .

Don’t miss the hands-on labs, the exciting product updates from CA, and the more than 20 technical sessions focusing on Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Enablement, Legacy Modernization and more. In addition to the education, EDGEucate 2007 has great networking opportunities in store.

Don’t forget…Early-bird rates for EDGEucate 2007 end this Friday. If you register by 8/31, you’ll save $200! EDIT: Expired Offer

Download the Advance Program today for complete event details and to access the faxable registration form.

Also, registration for EDGE EMEA 2007, being held September 30-October 2 at Ditton Manor, UK is live. To sign up for this International event, go to www.eventbookings.com/ec2096.

To learn more about EDGEucate 2007, e-mail or call EDGE at +1.312.245.1589.

I think that it’s important that this strong message gets through to all the organisations that use Gen worldwide, to reinforce that Gen has a rosy future, and will support all new technologies, platforms and infrastructures going forward.

EDIT:   Also check out the EDGE’s new podcast site ! Next podcast will be EDGE members talking about EDGEucate 2007 and EDGE EMEA 2007

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