Palm’s webOS: if you can build a website, you’ve got an app...
Blog Palm is making some big claims surrounding a new developer programme designed to champion the use of it its webOS operating system. The company says that apps on webOS are built with HTML, CSS,... [09 Feb 2010]
The economics of computing
Blog While I probably should have spent more of this weekend reading the Radio Times, I actually amused myself with an IDC white paper about the use of in-memory database technology. Here’s the reason... [08 Feb 2010]
Who wants to be a Euro developer millionaire?
Blog Oh god not another developer competition. Well yes, but quite a good one, as there’s 1 million Euros up for grabs in the latest Vodafone programmer challenge - and with Mobile World Congress just... [04 Feb 2010]
Linux dev explains Android kernel code removal
Blog Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that... [03 Feb 2010]
Greasemonkey slides into Chrome
News Google's web browser will natively support JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts in version 4 and later [02 Feb 2010]
Flash Fried?
Blog The biggest problem with the Adobe/Apple Flash spat is that it’s being fought on the wrong ground. Flash isn’t just about video on web pages, or animated adverts, or even about plugins versus... [01 Feb 2010]
My multiscreen mantra
Blog I recently got my home workstation environment nicely aligned with a three-way split between Windows 7, Mac OS-X and Linpus Linux. Quite apart from sharing processing load and being able to segment... [01 Feb 2010]
Crowdsourced testing, the paid-per-bug payoff
Blog When I first began looking at 'crowdsourced' development as a testing methodology (if we can attribute it with a term that mature), I immediately questioned how different this might be from open... [28 Jan 2010]
Embrace crunchiness: survive the software recession
Blog As a spotty student back in 1988 I used to read the Economist while I was studying for a degree in Economics in the luxurious surrounds of Wolverhampton’s swanky Polytechnic campus. There was a... [27 Jan 2010]
I think, therefore I am decoupled
Blog I’m due to meet up with SOA presentation layer technology company edge IPK just as soon as I find a window to stop hyperventilating in. But you know, it’s good to read up on a company before you... [25 Jan 2010]
Yahoo! App Wins YAP With Property Map
Blog What’s the best way to reach out to developers and fuel their interest? Early-beta software, free offers, T-shirts, pizza and competitions covers most of the bases doesn’t it? Well, as this blog is... [22 Jan 2010]
Patch-pouncing security vendors limber up
Blog The latest sport I’ve noticed on the technology newswires is known as ‘patch-pouncing’. This is the practice adopted by certain security and IT administration and/or management software vendors of... [20 Jan 2010]
Is Lotus Notes the Betamax of Email Clients?
Blog Remember how Betamax died a death despite being a better product? I worked as a TV transmission engineer for a year once and I probably don’t need to tell you that Digital Betacam (or digi-Beta as... [18 Jan 2010]
My ‘vendor-watching’ confession
Blog Big magazines and websites often have what I like to call ‘vendor watchers’. Across the pond, our colonial cousins ZDNet famously boast Mary-Jo Foley among their ranks and what Mary-Jo doesn’t know... [15 Jan 2010]
How to build a competitive developer competition
Blog It’s New Year and engagement initiatives abound at this time of year from every vendor worth their salt as they all try and assert their ‘giving and sharing’ nature with their ecosystem of... [13 Jan 2010]
Code is pretty, but testing is beautiful
Blog A couple of years ago I did a Q&A with Q&A with Christopher Seiwald who is chief technology officer for Perforce Software. Seiwald made a comment that he thought code should be more than just... [10 Jan 2010]
Are developer ecosystems a measure of a product’s worth?
Blog I read an argument this week which suggested that a (software) product's success or worth can best be gauged by looking at the strength of the ecosystem that surrounds it. For a software product... [05 Jan 2010]
My 2010 New Year’s Blogolutions
Blog The concept of the New Year’s Resolution is familiar to us all and is most typically associated with an abstinence or period of moderation whereupon we forgo those vices that we had previously... [30 Dec 2009]
Visual Studio launch delayed by 'a few weeks'
News Microsoft says it is still working to resolve some performance issues related to the Visual Studio 2010 developer tool suite, which was slated for a March release [21 Dec 2009]
Toggl - webapp or proprietary software?
Blog I've been using Toggl, a webapp, browser-based time-tracking software. And very nice it is too. But now it comes with a non-free desktop application, which uses a browser wrapper to... [19 Dec 2009]
Sun Shines On Cloud Security
Blog While it’s still early days for the billowing mists of cloud computing as they struggle to find some solid form and defined function, the vendors who strive to perform the requisite ‘cloudbusting’... [18 Dec 2009]
Open Source Business Intelligence in the real world
Blog I came admittedly very late to the TV show 24 this holiday season, but it’s always fun to see how Hollywood interprets fundamental software practices to fit an entire afternoon’s work into 15... [15 Dec 2009]
Sun updates Java, GlassFish and NetBeans
News The new tools support features such as the Web Profile, designed to slim down the process of creating web applications [14 Dec 2009]
A bad workman blames his (open source) tools
Blog A car mechanic, generally speaking, knows that Snap-on brand tools are some of the best in the industry and that it takes a proper monkey not to be able to use one of the company’s wrenches... [14 Dec 2009]
Google updates web app toolkit for speed
News Version 2.0 of Google's web application development tool adds performance-improving features designed for the latest browsers [11 Dec 2009]
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Does Facebook Connect help enable broadcast 3.0?
Blog I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’ve never been a big fan of Facebook. I was a member once, but the ‘informality’ and (for me) childish elements of the pings and zaps being exchanged... [10 Dec 2009]
The Sun Java EE Also Rises
Blog As we wait with baited breath for Oracle to finally get the green light on the Sun acquisition, those of us that speculated whether we would see an increased push into the Java EE enriched... [08 Dec 2009]
Have OSS-inspired developer self-study techniques come of ag...
Blog I was fortunate enough to sit in on a Java training course at Sun Microsystems’ UK headquarters not so long ago and good though it was, I had a discussion this weekend with a journo pal of mine in... [07 Dec 2009]
Qt gets support for Symbian, multitouch
News Version 4.6 of the Nokia-owned graphical toolkit lets developers write apps within a single framework for a variety of desktop and smartphone platforms [01 Dec 2009]
Content management interoperability steps up a gear
Blog Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a standards proposal designed to help developers working with content across multiple repositories by bringing a much-needed level of... [30 Nov 2009]
