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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:39:19 +0200

.::SpringSource regains footing with support change::.

Inclusive, not exclusive

The change to SpringSource's enterprise maintenance policy for the popular open-source Java framework represents a gentle shift in emphasis.…

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:02:09 +0200

.::Dial 'M' for Microsoft's new programming language::.

Oslo trio uncovered

As if you haven't got enough languages already, Microsoft is about to give you one more: M, part of its Oslo development and service-oriented strategy.…

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:13:42 +0200

.::Axmark quits Sun cos he 'hates' working for the man::.

'Rules suck', says MySQL co-founder

David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL, has quit Sun Microsystems because he “hates” all the rules he has to follow at the company.…

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:40:48 +0200

.::Boy band sings praises of Windows 7::.

'I've seen you in my dreams, I love you so much...'

The world is awaiting with tremulous expectation the forthcoming Professional Developers [sic] Conference, aka PDC2008, which Microsoft has dubbed an event "so hot, the t-shirts caught on fire!"…

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:00:12 +0200

.::SpringSource responds to support criticism::.

Java acquisition coming

Exclusive SpringSource is updating its controversial maintenance policy three weeks after encountering a barrage of criticism.…

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:16:29 +0200

.::Apathy comes easy to OpenAjax Alliance::.

Struggles on AJAX interop project

The OpenAjax Alliance is once again finding it tough to enlist support for its projects, despite representing some of the biggest players - with the most resources - in software biz and on online.…

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:02:04 +0200

.::Cold War comfort on software engineering’s birthday::.

Yesterday's issues at 40

Forty years ago today, at the height of the Cold War, around 50 computing experts gathered in the southern German market town of Garmisch to change history.…

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:30:44 +0200

.::Big Blue shares cloudy thinking with developers+dog::.

Get your apps in the sky on the net

If there was an index for how many times a vendor hops onto a new buzzword and tried to slap it on every product in their catalog, then it is probably safe to say that IBM would be the most actively traded stock on the Cloud Computing Exchange.…

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:02:03 +0200

.::Sergey Brin descends from Mount Sinai with Android API::.

The Ten Commandments or a waste of time?

Fail and You If there's one thing that's never affected by economic downturn, it's the mobile handset market. This phenomenon is most evident at the underground parties and dive bars in San Francisco, where it is a well known yet unspoken tradition that in any given group of hipsters, the one with the cheapest phone must always buy the first pitcher of Pabst Blue Ribbon.…

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:04:23 +0200

.::Mono delivers Foundation-free open .NET alternative::.

Parity on C# 3.0 and LINQ

The open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET is due to hit its second release today, with many .NET 3.5 features and a few notable exceptions.…

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:15:30 +0200

.::Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night::.

Jeff Kantor, on building and managing a 150 Petabyte database

Interview It makes for one heck of a project mission statement. Explore the nature of dark matter, chart the Solar System in exhaustive detail, discover and analyze rare objects such as neutron stars and black hole binaries, and map out the structure of the Galaxy.…

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:57:49 +0200

.::Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well::.

Some projects less open than others

Microsoft is posting code to its much-trumpeted CodePlex open-source projects site using licenses and conditions that go against the principles of open source.…

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:56:11 +0200

.::Microsoft sneaks out Silverlight 2::.

Release candidate stealth

Microsoft has come a step closer to releasing the next version of its Silverlight browser plug in.…

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:13:17 +0200

.::Apple scraps iPhone NDA::.

Jobsian reality check

Apple is scrapping its controversial and unpopular "fucking" iPhone non-disclosure agreement (NDA).…

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:02:04 +0200

.::Microsoft's application server goes Irish::.

Restful Dublin state

Microsoft is adopting REST and ATOM-based feeds in its application server to boost development and management of Windows server applications.…

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:14:52 +0200

.::Stob latest: It was a cunning trick, says Open University::.

Pull the other one

Why does the Open University set its students gibberish, Verity Stob asked here recently? We decided to investigate. As our enquiries continued at the Open University, it became harder to find anyone who took the issue seriously.…

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:05:40 +0200

.::Adobe preps Jesus Phone Flash Player::.

Awaits Jobsian blessing

Adobe Systems could soon join the ranks of frustrated tech companies building versions of their software for Apple's Jesus Phone.…

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:02:03 +0200

.::IBM, Sun, Microsoft sink differences on VMs::.

Anything for scripting

Corporate rivals have temporarily sunk their differences to find ways to fine-tune the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to a variety of popular dynamic languages.…

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:11:45 +0200

.::Attention developers: Your SESSIONIDs are showing::.

You don't know sidejack

Protecting passwords is important, but do you take the same care with your SESSIONIDs? You should.…

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:40 +0200

.::Microsoft straps open source jQuery to Visual Studio::.

Necessity meets invention

Microsoft is softening its attitude on shipping open-source code with Windows with a decision to distribute the handy jQuery JavaScript library with Visual Studio.…

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:02:05 +0200

.::Microsoft makes 'big' Rosario tools promise::.

ALM, take three

Microsoft claims it will have "nailed" the application lifecycle management (ALM) companion to Visual Studio with the third iteration - Visual Studio Team System 2010, codenamed Rosario - when it ships.…

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:26:30 +0200

.::Ballmer gives Norwegian students free love::.

Beware the flying herring

Microsoft believes it has "lost" a generation of developers who might have embraced Windows and .NET, thanks to the Mac and open source frameworks and operating systems.…

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:57:00 +0200

.::Adobe cites bad blood for closed Flash::.

Wary of corporate agendas

Everyone loves open source - well, everyone apart from Microsoft, that is. The only problem with open source is deciding how much code control you're willing to relinquish, especially when open source puts your precious bits and bytes - and ultimately your own product plans - into the hands of your competitors.…

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:23 +0200

.::Apple NDA kills Jesus Phone gospels::.

Black market inflation

Apple's clampdown over access to information on the iPhone's Software Development Kit (SDK) has plumbed new depths, forcing a book publisher to withdraw a programmers guide scheduled for December 2008.…

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:02:05 +0200

.::Get your PHP on the right Trax::.

Framework flattery

Hands on Ruby on Rails has become a popular framework for developing database-based web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.…

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:37:16 +0200

.::Will Microsoft ever get the web?::.

Looking for converts

Remix 08 The UK Remix conference in Brighton last week was a local echo of Mix in Las Vegas, Microsoft’s web development event. Some 500 developers and designers turned up in a tired Brighton Centre to hear Microsoft’s web story, covering products like Silverlight, ASP.NET, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Live services, and the Expression design tools.…

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:00:50 +0200

.::College launches iPhone videogame course::.

Eyes front, sit up straight

Don’t like the games on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Well, you’ll soon be able to make your own, if you pass the world’s first iPhone videogame course.…

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:02:03 +0200

.::OpenSocial, OpenID, and Google Gears: Three technologies for history's dustbin::.

A poke is not a revolution

Fail and You Hey, does anybody remember Google's OpenSocial? Come on, it hasn't even been a year since it was announced. OpenSocial was supposed to unify social network application developers behind one common API. Revolutionary, innovative, all that shit.…

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:15:05 +0200

.::Stob latest: IEEE flags dodgy paper::.

Cleaning up after peer review

For the past few weeks I've been trying to piece together an explanation for Verity Stob's extraordinary adventure in academia, published here on Monday. Why did the Open University set as a marked assessment for postgraduate students a plagiarized piece of garbage, then admit they hadn't really read it? Why had a prestigious peer-reviewed journal at the IEEE published it in the first place - when to anyone with a knowledge of the subject, it made no sense at all?…

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:28:11 +0200

.::What is Oracle's 'major database innovation'?::.

A Delphic Sibyl at the Moscone Centre

On Wednesday next week database users and buyers will behold one of the wonders of the modern world - Larry Ellison live on stage. He'll hold them in the palm of his hand as he talks in an "Extreme. Performance." keynote about something wondrous for the database world.…

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:39:49 +0200

.::Safari Gears up for Mac fanboys::.

Google dishes out support for Apple browser

After months of development Gears is finally available for Apple’s Safari web browser.…

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:51:14 +0200

.::Educating Verity::.

A breeze is riffling academia's pubic hair

Stob It's my own fault. If you've told me once, you've told me a hundred times to ignore them. You know the sort of thing:…

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:02:02 +0200

.::Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility::.

It's a f***ing web browser

Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released.…

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:29:17 +0200

.::Applet accelerating Java update M.I.A.::.

Last minute glitch kills welcoming party

Sun Microsystems planned to push out a significant update to Java today, but a last-minute snag has made its date of arrival uncertain.…

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:57:32 +0200

.::Mozilla claims mass Ubiquity mobilisation::.

Retro geek hog heaven

Firefox developer Mozilla has claimed its decision to reinvent the command line to make mashups easier has received an overwhelming response from developers.…

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:02:03 +0200

.::Discover OS X's hidden artistic side::.

Jobs' past revisited

Mac secrets One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data. The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you're after.…

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:18:41 +0200

.::Microsoft eyes mobile app store::.

Skymarket to challenge iTunes?

Microsoft is looking like it may launch an application repository in response to the success of Apple's iTunes application store and Google's announcement that Android will be similarly endowed. Or is it?…

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:02:04 +0200

.::Shine on Silverlight and Windows with XAML::.

Learn now, pays later

Web bling tone Extensible Application Markup Language, or XAML, lies at the heart of Microsoft's rich-client strategy. The user interface for both Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, which is mostly a subset of WPF, is typically defined in XAML.…

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:26:31 +0200

.::Cross-site hacks and the art of self defence::.

The new browser wars

Hackers can force your browser to send requests to any site they want. It's not even hard - all they have to do is get you to view an email or a web page.…

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:46:46 +0200

.::Google's MapReduce suddenly not so backward::.

SQL tools plug gaps

What was seen as a major hole in Google's MapReduce database technology has been plugged, not once but twice. In the same week.…

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:43:03 +0200

.::Android's missing Bluetooth: Limitations laid out::.

Parlez-vous GoogleTalk? Er, no

Android developers have admitted that Google's mobile phone platform won't support GoogleTalk in its first version, and that Bluetooth support will be severely limited.…

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:58:00 +0200

.::Embarcadero rallies on Windows and web with CodeGear::.

Microsoft not the only fruit

Embarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows.…

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:53:25 +0200

.::Hardware hackers get second Bugs bite::.

Modular Linux goodies return

Hardware hackers can soon start building their own Linux gadgets with a fresh batch of Lego-like building blocks from Bug Labs.…

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:02:03 +0200

.::Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty::.

How Google and Amazon will take your money and step on your dreams

Fail and You It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but they all mean the same shit: Renting your quickly depreciating physical assets out because your software company is out of ideas for computer programs.…

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:23:17 +0200

.::Microsoft's .NET goes Web 2.0 with Sadville::.

Open alternative prepares for programming

Sadville is rolling out the open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET on its virtual infrastructure in a step towards enabling software development.…

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:02:07 +0200

.::JavaFX preview highlights critical weaknesses::.

Potential riches uncertain

Review Sun Microsystems recently released the JavaFX Preview SDK. I decided to revisit what is Sun's last, best hope to recapture both the desktop and the browser in the face of stiff competition.…

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:58:45 +0200

.::Google App Engine comes under Hyperic scrutiny::.

Silver lining meets cloud

With cloud services losing their 24x7 luster, Hyperic is today expected to step up with its second service probing for potential weaknesses.…

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:10:51 +0200

.::Debian delivers FreeRunner open-phone package::.

20,000 applications, one open phone

Olympics aside, summer 2008 will be remembered for at least two other reasons. It will be seen as a time when the noise over Linux as a platform for mobile devices reached a crescendo. Second: it marked Debian's fifteenth anniversary.…

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200

.::Spice up your Apple applications::.

Splash of Aqua

Mac Secrets Apple's "Professional" range of applications such as Final Cut Studio, Aperture or Logic Express have a completely different look to the standard Aqua color scheme. This comes courtesy of a private framework called ProKit.framework, intended to make Apple's professional software stand out from the crowd.…

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:03:03 +0200

.::Googlephone is coming soon::.

T-Mobile confirms Googlephone launch. Ish

T-Mobile will launch an Android phone this year and with Google allowing developers access to version 0.9, we'll soon see if it has managed the finesse of an iPhone with Nokia-grade functionality.…