Increase Your Performance! No, I didn't mean it like that…
Blog Usually whenever I get an email with a subject line that contains the term “Increase Your Performance” - I tend to file it under junk, spam and filth if it hasn´t been directed towards that route... [03 Jul 2009]
IBM offers AI help to mobile developers
News An EU-funded project uses brute force and intelligence to auto-optimise mobile software [01 Jul 2009]
Windows Embedded: Seeds of Hope for Student Developers?
Blog Back in 2003 when we all had travel budgets and that sort of thing, Microsoft would fly journalists out to locations like Brazil to cover the finals of its student developer competition which it... [30 Jun 2009]
Android developers get native-code kit
News The Android Native Development Kit allows application writers to reuse code in native languages such as C and C++, making it possible to write certain kinds of high-performing apps [26 Jun 2009]
A Norwegian Technology Odyssey
Blog I've spent a couple of days in Oslo, Norway this week meeting with a few local IT companies and have been profoundly impressed by the country's attitude to technology and the way it works to... [26 Jun 2009]
Web Middleware – The Next Great Developer Cash Cow?
Blog I was in a meeting with a web design and development company on Monday who has produced a forms-based data management solution. This product interfaces between a site's core customer facing forms... [24 Jun 2009]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News The emergency services should be using open-source software to ease the exchange of data, according to ACPO data expert Ian Readhead [23 Jun 2009]
Is Website-Envy Provoking Digital Plagiarism?
Blog Programmers involved in web design and development are arguably somewhat distanced from the nature, form and origin of much of the content that they make sparkle and shine. Should we be surprised... [22 Jun 2009]
Web 3.0 Community Launches for Semantic Web Developers
Blog As we all know, web 1.0 was where it all started in a totally non-dynamic dial-up ‘go and look for it kind of a way’. Web 2.0 is pretty much where we are now with blogs, social media, push content,... [19 Jun 2009]
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and IT sur...
Blog I would have thought that given the number of IT surveys we see floating past us these days that more tech bloggers would have referenced the phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and also... [17 Jun 2009]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog The next version of the HTML web programming standard is unlikely to be finalised until 2022, according to a source within the web standards community. "The current best estimate for final... [15 Jun 2009]
Head in the Data Cloud Pt.II
Blog A while back, I looked at the lie of the land for setting up a way of working seamlessly between two laptops running Ubuntu linux. Originally I was going to use grsync to backup all my... [15 Jun 2009]
Gartner’s Magic Roundabout
Blog I spent part of this weekend pondering the values of the Gartner Magic Quadrant and trying to elucidate for myself just who buys into this scorecard smorgasbord other than the companies who pay for... [14 Jun 2009]
Knuth: England is home of literate programming 
Video On a visit to London, Professor Donald Knuth gives a rare video interview to ZDNet UK about the past, present and future of computing [12 Jun 2009]
JavaOne: What Sun didn’t say…
Blog As is always the way with these things, attending a big show like JavaOne means you do tend to focus on what Sun Microsystems itself had to say – especially when the company has just been bought by... [10 Jun 2009]
Apache Stonehenge SOA tool hits first milestone
News The project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample SOA apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release [08 Jun 2009]
Channel hopping to third party virtualisation
Blog I’ve never claimed to be an IT channel journalist. In fact, I was at a lunch with the newly reborn Gateway (no longer 2000) recently alongside some tech channel press and was suitably impressed by... [08 Jun 2009]
Microsoft at JavaOne 2009: “We come in peace”
Blog If listening to Microsoft talk about openness and interoperability sounds weird, then it shouldn't really, not if we're being relaxed enough. If listening to Microsoft talk about openness and... [04 Jun 2009]
Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE
News Sun pushes out new versions of Java SE and of JavaFX, its platform for developing rich internet applications, which could underpin a push into new devices [03 Jun 2009]
Ellison and McNealy discuss future of Java
Video At JavaOne in San Francisco, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison talks to Sun chairman Scott McNealy about plans for Java development [03 Jun 2009]
JavaOne Keynote: Live Blog Feed
Blog #08.51 PST - I'm sat in row 2 in the main auditorium at San Francisco's Moscone Centre for Sun Microsystems' JavaOne event. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has taken the stage and has not mentioned the... [02 Jun 2009]
OpenSolaris adds more developer goodies
Blog The new version of OpenSolaris has quite a few new features, and some of them look interesting for the developer. While Crossbow will help during testing — having your entire application... [02 Jun 2009]
Sun Stays Open: A Closer Look at OpenSolaris 2009.06
Blog With critics inevitably drawing conclusions over a more corporate and newly monetised version of Sun Microsystems emerging from the Oracle acquisition, the company used its 'day zero' Community One... [02 Jun 2009]
What to expect from Sun's JavaOne 2009
Blog Sun Microsystems didn't let a little thing like being acquired by Oracle get in the way of hosting its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco from June 2 to 5 this year. Thankfully,... [01 Jun 2009]
Ingres, Red Hat team on developer stack
News The open-source developer stack combines the Ingres database with JBoss packages from Red Hat and is meant to measure up to proprietary tools from IBM, Oracle and others [29 May 2009]
The Twitter Book: worth a quick look if you're hooked
Blog So there I was just about to take a flight to the US. Leafing through my as yet unread Bill Bryson books that I have left, I was about to dive headfirst into A Short History of Nearly Everything,... [29 May 2009]
Google tests out customisation for Apps
News The company is recruiting testers for a beta of a scripting feature that lets businesses customise and automate actions in its online applications [28 May 2009]
Eliminating Toxic Technology
Blog I've just finished up editing a feature for a DBA community portal that examines the current wastage elements in typical technology deployments - a scenario the author described as 'toxic... [27 May 2009]
Stream Computing - not just a load of babble
Blog It was 8am on a bank holiday Monday morning that I was watching the IT news feeds and started seeing mentions of Stream Computing coming to the fore. Being a bank holiday, I though yes very good –... [26 May 2009]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth. There is... [21 May 2009]
