Apache Software Foundation takes Subversion in
Blog Subversion, the open source version control system, is now an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Subversion was previously sponsored by software lifecycle tools vendor CollabNet, and... [06 Nov 2009]
Google releasing JavaScript programming tools
News In a step to make the web a more powerful foundation for programs, Google is releasing Closure Tools that it says produce faster, better code [06 Nov 2009]
Moblin v2.1 – new polish or just box ticking the building bl...
Blog Moblin’s strategy for mobile Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) built around the Intel Atom processor has, according to the project’s steering committee, reached the Moblin v2.1 project... [06 Nov 2009]
Is Windows Easy Transfer in Windows 7 a bit difficult?
Blog In my capacity as man with finger in more than one editorial pie (or freelance journalist I suppose), I have been getting some feedback from Windows 7 users that the data movement wizard Windows... [03 Nov 2009]
If software companies were movie stars…
Blog In the spirit of balanced tech blogging I had two choices to make before writing my blog today: a) an analysis of the latest Business Process Management tools or b) a fanciful blog that asks the... [30 Oct 2009]
Microsoft rolls Windows 7, Azure into Eclipse
Blog Microsoft has announced the integration of Windows 7, Azure and Silverlight tools into the open source Eclipse development platform. The joint project with Canadian company Tasktop Technologies and... [28 Oct 2009]
Symbian SEE & the salmiak salted liquorice
Blog It’s tough to add much to the already very extensive ZDNetUK report on the Symbian Exchange and Exhibition (SEE), but for the record I was there too and I had some interesting meetings with Symbian... [28 Oct 2009]
Apple drops ZFS project
News Apple has cancelled its plans to port Sun's high-volume storage file system to the Snow Leopard release of Mac OS X [26 Oct 2009]
Citizen developers to shake up IT advances?
Blog Analyst house Gartner has predicted that 'citizen developers' are set to play an increasingly important role in creating business apps. Gartner defines citizen developers as users, working outside... [26 Oct 2009]
Now where did I leave my Computertastaturreinigungsmittel?
Blog Having been involved with a German publishing project at various times this year I have been fascinated with the use of the German language when it comes to IT. As most readers will know, if the... [26 Oct 2009]
BlackBerry developer relations: the state of the nation
Blog After recently taking a technological quantum leap forward and getting myself down to Staples to buy my first white board, I was pleased this morning to mark in a meeting for next month with Mike... [22 Oct 2009]
Mind mapping software as a lifecycle management tool
Blog Mind mapping is the kind of term that would normally make me switch off immediately. It’s right up there with ‘blue sky thinking’ and ‘call to action’ as some of the most unnecessary... [21 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 hits MSDN
Blog Hushed mutterings around the MSDN’s many chambered portals this afternoon confirm that today is in fact the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers. General... [19 Oct 2009]
UK trailing USA in adoption of open source defence technolog...
Blog I am due to meet up soon with an open source enterprise content management (ECM) company called Alfresco whose success in the US may have lessons for us in the UK defence sector. The company’s... [19 Oct 2009]
Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers
News Wolfram Alpha has opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the system and incorporate its data, calculations and rich media results [16 Oct 2009]
Text analytics & customer research data: a happy marriage?
Blog Having recently been subjected to a rather bland online questionnaire from my local council on public services, I was equally unimpressed to have been approached a couple of times by clipboard... [16 Oct 2009]
Nokia Qt Developer Days: from the show floor
Blog After 36 hours of developer ‘show-submersion’ I think I have a pretty good idea of how the Nokia X-factor is playing out in the Qt cross-platform world. There are very few blue Nokia logos around... [14 Oct 2009]
What to expect from Nokia’s Qt Dev Days 2009
Blog Let’s just be absolutely ‘Oktoberfestly’ clear about this can we? I am in Munich for the start of Nokia Qt Software’s Dev Days 2009 to learn more about customers’ use of the Qt cross platform C++... [13 Oct 2009]
Mobile application strategies & ecosystem domination
Blog If you find yourself looking up a vendor on ZDNet.co.uk and notice that the bulk of the content you can get your hands are links to white papers rather than news or opinion, you might (if you are... [09 Oct 2009]
Sneak Peeks reveals some of Adobe's thinking
News Adobe developers show what they've been working on in a MAX conference session, and their projects could indicate the trends that will define the company over the next couple of years [08 Oct 2009]
Does Palm’s developer programme lack substance?
Blog There was a time, about five years ago to be exact, when Palm held developer press briefings in London and furrowed a relatively deep channel of respect as one of the vanguards of the mobile app... [07 Oct 2009]
Palm opens doors to WebOS applications
News A new developer programme will allow mobile apps to be sold and installed without review by Palm, waiving fees for open-source developers [06 Oct 2009]
Droid font
Blog Ever-languishing in the backwash of the web surfing elite, I came across this November 2007 blog entry about the Droid font especially designed for the Android operating system by the Ascender... [06 Oct 2009]
Online diagnostics & assessment tools: waste of time?
Blog Sometimes I get the feeling that online diagnostic & assessment tools of any kind are about as intuitive and insightful as one of those fairground, “place your finger on the pad to get your ‘sexy’... [06 Oct 2009]
Adobe puts LiveCycle into the cloud
News The new version of Adobe's web application development tool includes developer productivity improvements, accessibility from mobile devices and integration with Flash Builder [05 Oct 2009]
Huddle has an app for iPhone web conferencing
Blog If there’s one thing that recent ZDNet reviews of Microsoft Office Web Apps is likely to leave you thinking about, it should be collaboration. With this in mind, I noticed this week’s news from... [01 Oct 2009]
Developers: Do you buy the ‘Context-Aware’ computing concept...
Blog How many ways can you repackage the concept of metadata, or information about information? Well for starters, if you are Gartner you can coin the term context-aware computing just about any time... [29 Sep 2009]
Agile programming power everywhere, no thanks!
Blog Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed Consulting last week when he asked whether Agile has done enough to promote itself, I have an additional... [28 Sep 2009]
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta – does what it says on the ti...
Blog OK so we all like to take pot shots at Microsoft right? Come to think of it, most of us like to take pot shots at most companies if they can be even vaguely accused of trying to pull the wool over... [25 Sep 2009]
Microsoft fires up free tools for developers
News The new WebsiteSpark programme gives small web design companies access to Microsoft tools and marketing support [24 Sep 2009]
