Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application development
Blog Having recently worked on a project looking at Microsoft’s Language Interface Packs and having lived abroad for over a decade in the Middle East and Africa, I’m inherently interested in any project that extends application development to a...
[November 19, 2008, 6:52 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The core role of application lifecycle management in software development
Blog You guessed it, well, hopefully… they always complain that their team leader or manager is a clueless timewaster that lets project skew slide into the team development environment from day one and makes everyone’s life more difficult and less...
[July 25, 2007, 13:19 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application development
Blog Comment This is not only esperanto attitude. It is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) attitude, and booth are very similar. Most FOSS are multilingual, they have libraries that make it easy. In any GNU/Linux distributions you can install additional...
[November 19, 2008, 16:18 by Xisberto]
RE: Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application development
Blog Comment Thanks for this - my old PowerBook G4 just imploded and stuck it's head up its I/O socket. If we can re-ignite its heartbeat I'll follow your suggestion for sure - my disk is wiped and dead on the poor old thing.
[November 19, 2008, 19:36 by Adrian Bridgwater]
Andreessen: The future is PHP
Talkback Tutorial: “Comparing PHP, Java, ASP for web application development": Aulke is also deeply involved in the PHP-framework-development-initiative. On the above-mentioned “Zend PHP Conference & Expo” in San Francisco Gaylord Aulke, CEO and founder of...
About: Andreessen: The future is PHP
[October 21, 2005, 9:56]
Software development from classical, jazz and karaoke to heavy metal
Blog Software application development comes in many flavours, or as we often like to call them ‘methodologies’. In software application development, this is an environment such as structured or procedural programming with top down design.
[October 24, 2008, 8:11 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Australian Collaboration Situation
Blog Collaborative Australian and Kiwi software application development has always benefitted from the nine to ten-hour time difference we share with the boys and girls down under when it comes to development projects built around a follow-the-sun...
[August 17, 2009, 10:02 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Given the constraints of constraints: am I deluded?
Blog Given the manifold mix of methodologies that exist within software application development today, it is perhaps no surprise that one camp (let’s say Agile) often thinks of another (ok let’s say Waterfall) as a little misguided at times.
[July 7, 2008, 10:43 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Enterprise, desktop & mobile development: one big happy family now?
Blog For a long time now we’ve been arguing that all application development must inevitable scale to the mobile device - but it never quite does. But an increasing amount of the application development and data management companies that I typically...
[July 23, 2008, 12:10 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog If you’re in the business of reviewing software application development news, which coincidentally I am, then tenfold programming productivity claims tend to either raise my eyebrows or raise my hackles in equal measure.
[November 25, 2009, 13:09 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Borland’s virtual reality requirements simulator
Blog I think it’s probably one of the most emotive areas of software application development in some ways; it’s the point at which I think we ought to be able to empathise with the difficulties associated with spiraling and possibly irrational client...
[July 16, 2009, 10:30 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps?
Blog As mobile Linux is carving it’s footprint on the future of mobile application development, the implication for enterprise applications is also paramount. Additionally in favor of enterprise deployment, mobile Linux provides greater creative control...
[May 15, 2008, 17:15 in On The Road by MobileTech]
Web 2.0 gurus don’t practice what they preach
Blog Continuing my recent thoughts on the rise of virtualised desktop application development, I immediately questioned whether the suits and boots brigade in attendance would be tapping into web 2.0 technologies and take their ‘hosted’ office on the...
[April 30, 2009, 12:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Is Microsoft’s ‘Democratic’ ALM really a ‘Republican’ Party Reptile?
Blog Codenamed ‘Rosario’, according to Microsoft the new product is capable of ‘democratising’ application lifecycle management (ALM) by uniting the members of a development shop from, “The core developers and testers to the wider team of project...
[September 30, 2008, 10:50 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Which “one” word sums up information technology for you in 2008?
Blog An impossible task I know, but a pleasant distraction from the turkey and cranberry overload this yuletide had me rummaging through my stack of this year’s 200-odd blogs to try and produce a single word that sums up what taste software application...
[December 29, 2008, 0:56 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog But given the rise of the ‘consolidated’ corporate IT behemoths around us, are we at risk of losing our competitive edge in software application development? feeling that their own latest achievement negates the development of other similar...
[April 6, 2009, 8:01 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Games development: a tester’s perspective
Blog It’s an unpaid role of course, but I have been able to witness the growth and development of the application throughout its various builds. Quite apart from the fact that its great to see high quality games being produced for the Mac; I have...
[October 23, 2008, 8:24 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Crossing the chasm: from DBAs to Developers
Blog Speed is everything these days; time is money after all - so now we must also consider rapid application deployment alongside rapid application development. Large IT vendors are fond of trying to use the breadth of their ‘technology stack’ to...
[July 22, 2008, 9:37 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
To clarify HSBC's problems.
Talkback HSBC had to do a lot of the development work, writing an application programming interface (API) to allow its risk calculation program to run on the grid. To summarize, HSBC had to do a lot of development work on Linux, which they weren't familiar...
About: Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement
[March 15, 2007, 5:33 by yodacola]
Is over-engineering of applications becoming endemic?
Blog Is the same thing potentially happening with software application development? Product development managers convinced us to buy toothbrushes with a special bendy arms and side bristles. Sitting squarely in the firing line for news announcements...
[July 6, 2009, 9:29 in by Adrian Bridgwater]



