I said Storage, not “Snorage!”
Blog Storage is interesting, honest! Well, it really should be. Storage is all we really have if you think about it. Storage is where our data lives and data is our lifeblood. Just look at today's... [10 Mar 2010]
Android NDK taps into high-speed graphics
News The latest version of the Android Native Developer Kit promises to let developers tap into OpenGL ES 2.0 for accelerated graphics [09 Mar 2010]
Condensing droplets in the highly distributed cloud
Blog As the mists clear and the clouds of hosted application Nirvana finally form a compute cumulo nimbus ball of white fluffy perfection, is there a likelihood of highly distributed applications being... [08 Mar 2010]
A recipe for security success, don't forget the HP sauce
Blog London's InfoSec show is not so far away, so what better excuse for a security-themed ramble or two? You may have seen last week's news on news on ZDNetUK detailing the fact that Fortify Software... [04 Mar 2010]
Going mobile, naked and unconnected
Blog So I’m moving house. Not something I have ever done as an adult in the UK. Are my stress levels peaking? Hang on while I pop another Lisinopril and I’ll let you know. But the worst part of it all... [02 Mar 2010]
Assessment engine drives ‘benchmarkable’ function point anal...
Blog So there I was talking about highly advanced interactive analytic applications last Friday (like you do) and so Monday must logically start with a nod to extended software analysis and measurement... [01 Mar 2010]
Highly advanced interactive analytic applications on the ris...
Blog As it’s Friday I thought I’d take a fun upbeat kind of topic to talk about. So what’s lighthearted and easy to digest? I don’t know about you, but highly advanced interactive analytic applications... [26 Feb 2010]
This is not just web accessibility; this is M&S web accessib...
Blog Actually it’s not. Marks and Spencer languishes in a paltry Lidl-like 12th place on a new web accessibility table prepared by ‘user experience’ consultancy Webcredible for its third annual 2010... [23 Feb 2010]
Opera launches first open-source project
News The browser maker has moved the Dragonfly debugging toolkit to publicly hosted servers, setting up the BSD-licensed software as an open project [22 Feb 2010]
Call for Google to free web from Flash
News The Free Software Foundation is urging Google to offer the VP8 video codec, picked up in its acquisition of On2, royalty-free to developers [22 Feb 2010]
Google grinds Gears to a halt
News The search giant is no longer developing the software for using web apps offline, and says similar functionality is heading into new web standards [22 Feb 2010]
Cloud computing infrastructure: an ‘air’ of uncertainty?
Blog I actually wanted to title this blog as - Do virtual appliances need extra infrastructural provisioning? But I kind of figured that sounded too granular to be interesting. The truth is, there’s a... [22 Feb 2010]
Adobe: Flash in the tablet disproves Steve Jobs
News A top exec has hit back at the Apple CEO's criticism of Adobe as 'lazy', saying Flash Player 10.1 shows a keenness to work across devices and platforms [19 Feb 2010]
The top 200 blogs for developers, in the world?
Blog I was chatting with fellow tech journo DJ Walker-Morgan (or as he’s better known Codepope) who mans the editorial helm at security and open source site The H recently about a feature I was going... [19 Feb 2010]
Suddenly a Vista-phonic Moment
Blog Somebody I know, who's an IT guy, a Linux user but a Windows admin told me that his DELL laptop has never had an issue with Vista, Vista SP1 or SP2. His system is running a Core 2 Duo and has 4 GB... [19 Feb 2010]
Managing the application portfolio back to the future
Blog In a week filled with mobile madness and malarkey of all kinds I have decided to buck the trend and talk about music, mainframes and meringues. Music was my previous blog on coding tunes, so now to... [18 Feb 2010]
Music that you can code to
Blog Tonight is the Brit Awards, so what better opportunity is there to blog on the subject of musical inspiration for developers? My Jan/Feb copy of Men’s Health magazine details a study carried out at... [16 Feb 2010]
Adobe joins LiMo for Flash Lite push
News The company has announced it will link up with the LiMo Foundation in an effort to spread its Flash technology to the new generation of smartphones [15 Feb 2010]
When product naming clashes with H.P. Lovecraft
Blog H.P Lovecraft's dark, weird fantastic fiction has become the first open source literature, where other writers have taken his mythos and his nihilistic view of human life in a dark and hostile... [15 Feb 2010]
Web designers & developers shanghaied by pirate software
Blog Oh alright, I know I always go on about hating surveys, but I did read this one all the way to the end because it claims that more than half of web designers and developers admit to having worked... [11 Feb 2010]
Delayed Visual Studio 2010 hits RC
News Following December's decision to delay the suite by several weeks, Microsoft says it has eliminated most major performance and memory problems [09 Feb 2010]
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]
