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Microsoft PDC continues web developer momentum
Blog Lamentably, it’s only the once that I’ve been to Microsoft’s PDC developer conference and that was back in 2004. But for those of us left in poor old Blighty, as was the case last year, we’ll be meeting Microsoft’s developer and tools guru Mr Mark...
[November 19, 2009, 8:17]
Web Middleware - The Next Great Developer Cash Cow?
Blog I was in a meeting with a web design and development company on Monday who has produced a forms-based data management solution. The company's lead development guru and I got to talking about this level of web service technology and questioned...
[June 24, 2009, 7:48]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog In my ongoing quest to examine web developer and web designer touch points, I have been getting my hands pleasantly dirty with both Quark’s latest iteration and the all-consuming box that is Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
[March 26, 2009, 7:00]
The Great Single Skill Myth
Blog In essence, this is our need as developers to label ourselves with a particular technological expertise - for instance, you may be a PHP developer, you may be a .NET developer, you may be a Java developer - which is fine, but very few of us will...
[May 26, 2009, 10:44]
Will you tune in to “Broadcast 2.0”..?
Blog Although the BBC iPlayer team have come under some criticism recently, the project may be about to take its next step towards increased proximity with each and every one of us - and if you’re a software developer who is a essentially a web...
[December 14, 2008, 23:11]
Make Your Live Homepage in PowerPoint Slides
Blog In PowerPoint 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button -> PowerPoint Options -> Popular, click the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box, and then click OK, now the control group is in the Developer tab.
[March 17, 2008, 8:26]
Symbian Foundation 2010 roadmap: ‘the open route to openness’
Blog Symbian^2 is the first release for which the source code is available on the Mercurial repositories on the Symbian developer web site. If you are like me, you might just be thinking how do these guys lay out their future OS formation so accurately...
[May 11, 2009, 9:22]
Pssst! Want to see some pre-alpha prototype software?
Blog I’ve not long returned from Milan where I attended Adobe’s MAX Europe web designer and developer convention. The worst developer conference I have ever been to (and I have made a habit of hanging around these things for the last half decade) has to...
[December 9, 2008, 22:36]
Is Website-Envy Provoking Digital Plagiarism?
Blog Spending a lot of time looking at web developer and designer touch-points and always keen to examine the burning issues of the day as I am. I also contacted a quite prolific chap called Aral Balkan who describes himself as a ‘User Experience...
[June 22, 2009, 8:51]
COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog I made particular note of the fact that threading techniques are part of the wider application developer’s toolset now with Silverlight - and this is for the web. Developer: “Um, ok - how much extra will I get paid, as I can’t see myself putting...
[July 9, 2008, 16:21]
The Future for Rich Internet Applications
Blog Adobe’s senior manager for developer relations Mike Chambers recently said that AIR will empower millions of web developers to make their RIAs first-class citizens on the desktop. I’ve just come back from Adobe’s MAX Europe developer symposium in...
[October 18, 2007, 11:16]
Does Microsoft Remix 2008 make Brighton Rock?
Blog Developer scepticism appears to be centred around the limited systems resources RIAs have access to from the sandbox environment they run in. This is my prediction for where Microsoft will try and win us over - they know that they can tell us the...
[September 18, 2008, 7:56]
What's happened to OpenSocial?
Blog Taking a look at the Google developer blogs on OpenSocial, it seems full of the results of surveys asking how useful people would find it, plus a schedule of OpenSocial related events at last months Google I/O developer conference, but nothing on...
[June 30, 2008, 9:16]
Is the sun still shining at Sun?
Blog One has great storage, one has great apps, one has great backing by third party developer communities, one is aligned for mobile and another has superior automation for billing and service packaging. Oracle on the other hand have never once (in my...
[April 24, 2009, 8:36]
Are developer ecosystems a measure of a product’s worth?
Blog Although I would hasten a word of caution if you were to go to the top of the tree and look at the MSDN or even Oracle’s developer ‘boys club’ as these are supported by a greater weight of corporate funding than most.
[January 5, 2010, 10:24]
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog Thinking about this little rant, I did speak to Apple's VP of developer relations Ron Okamoto a couple of years back. Does Apple invite us developer-focused journalists to the Apple Developer Connection?
[March 25, 2008, 8:38]
Vendors snuggle up for Microsoft PDC
Blog Aside from getting loosened up with the “Developer & Tools” gang over hotdogs and MGDs, the highlight was a very funny keynote video featuring Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite, oops sorry… there was lots of good tech-talk too.
[October 27, 2008, 7:37]
Developer guidance on “unsafe” cryptographic algorithms
Blog Centred around developer ‘confusion’ over safe versus unsafe cryptographic algorithms, there is now a “manifesto” to provide programmers with an encryption check-list to ensure safer builds result at every level.
[March 20, 2009, 6:05]
Windows Mobile 6.5 - taking on the fight
Blog The enormous volume of stuff available to me as a developer on Windows Phone is awesome and enabling in equal measure. But in the new range of Windows Phones is hardware and key OS feature parity, coupled with a world leading developer platform.
[October 8, 2009, 12:08]
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Blog I recently interviewed senior VP of Microsoft developer division 'Soma' Somasegar for ZDNet.co.uk and his thoughts on today’s announcement make interesting reading. If you like me have attended Tech.Ed events and Microsoft PDC for the last few...
[August 11, 2008, 19:18]
