Applications tone up for Beijing Olympics
Blog Given the impending start of the Beijing Olympics on August the eighth we can no doubt brace ourselves for a flurry of news themed around the fact that XYZ Ltd’s latest application has been refined... [25 Jul 2008]
Enterprise, desktop & mobile development: one big happy fami...
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. There’s development for the corporate data centre and... [23 Jul 2008]
Crossing the chasm: from DBAs to Developers
Blog Large IT vendors are fond of trying to use the breadth of their ‘technology stack’ to convince us that they can bridge the divide between the development team and the operations function. This gap,... [22 Jul 2008]
Game developers should embrace randomness – but not too much
Blog It must have been turning 40 yesterday that caused me to find myself reading the Observer newspaper Health supplement left over from this weekend. The ‘special’ this week was entitled ‘25 things... [18 Jul 2008]
Adobe code names new version of Flex: “Gumbo”
Blog Sources inside Adobe’s mothership last night started talking about the next version of Flex, the company’s cross-platform set of components and tools for building RIAs that run on any browser and... [16 Jul 2008]
Tiny tip
Blog If you separate your coding names using an underscore rather than a dash (eg class_name as opposed to class-name), most text editors will treat the underscore as part of one word, and thus makes it... [14 Jul 2008]
Is this the age of the software renaissance?
Blog A lot of people are talking about a software development renaissance right now. The reason for this may just be that we can now identify so many more of the problems we face with software... [11 Jul 2008]
Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'
News The company has open sourced a data description language that it claims is more efficient that XML [10 Jul 2008]
Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser
News The company will reportedly open source a set of tools allowing existing desktop and server software written in the C programming language to run in browsers [10 Jul 2008]
COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog Comparatively rare are the times when we hear about COBOL programming these days - unless it’s from a vendor or systems integration specialist perhaps. Rarer still are the times that I speak to... [09 Jul 2008]
Accessible HTML tables explained
Blog Bring ’em on… Meanwhile, back at The Ministry, I was given the task of constructing a monster department hierarchy table. In the past, I have created fairly complex accessible HTML tables (for... [08 Jul 2008]
OpenDisc - free software collection
Blog And the good news is that the latest version of OpenDisc was released a couple of weeks ago. OpenDisc is a collection of Free Open Source Software for Windows, and includes such gems as Firefox 3... [08 Jul 2008]
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... [07 Jul 2008]
Problem with Notepad++
Blog Well, to be more precise, this is probably my problem with Notepad++, the venerable open source Windows text editor. I can’t open HTML files. As a web designer & builder, this is a bit... [02 Jul 2008]
Microsoft blogger defends standards expertise
Blog Attending a session at the Red Hat conference in Boston recently, I got to witness a Microsoft exec brave, or with enough front, to step into what can only be seen as enemy territory for any... [01 Jul 2008]
Presentation Layer Cake
Blog Don’t you just love the presentation layer? Back at Microsoft PDC (professional developer conference) 2005 Bill Gates received rapturous applause for the Windows Presentation Layer (WPF) demos he... [01 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News Mark Shuttleworth has called for Ubuntu developers to accept responsibility for all flaws in the OS's code, including those in 'upstream' source code [30 Jun 2008]
Help! My T-shirt needs re-booting…
Blog Embedded software can sometimes sound a bit dull can’t it? You’ve just been offered a chance to read a case study from WhizzBang Technology Ltd about their new embedded solution to operate... [30 Jun 2008]
Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far...
Blog Have you seen the BBC report on Dubai’s first ‘rotating skyscraper’ this afternoon? There’s some French architect saying how much he’d observed the wind affecting skyscrapers, so now he wants to... [27 Jun 2008]
Mobile Device convergence - is gaming on phone devices a ste...
Blog I am being terribly lazy and rather than write an article about Nokia, Apple and Sony's push for a mobile device that can effectively be used for communication and gaming, I have simply copied... [26 Jun 2008]
