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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:54:53 +0200 Money talksOSCON Sun Microsystems is putting the "L" back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on Linux.… Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:42:08 +0200 Knol is short for knowledge - honestGoogle has unleashed its Wikipedia killer.… Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:34:14 +0200 Nothing personal, just no developersOSCON Intel's project to put a Linux and open source stack on mobile devices is getting overhauled to attract developer support, having failed to generate much interest.… Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:19:42 +0200 Sniffing the enterprise glueOpen source tools developer SpringSource yesterday announced the general availability of its new enterprise applications package.… Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:25:44 +0200 Affinity for threadsOSCON A year after open sourcing its cross-platform Threaded Building Blocks (TBB), Intel has released what it called a "significant" upgrade to is parallel programming template library.… Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:38:34 +0200 Join the herdOSCON Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, next week plans a major update to its massive code hosting and project management platform Launchpad.… Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:24:31 +0200 But which one has more apes?In an epic, multinational sat nav cock-up, a Syrian lorry driver aiming for Gibraltar left Turkey and ended up in Skegness.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:02:04 +0200 Surf the information super hierarchyMac secrets Having dipped into the undocumented frame class used by NSWindow to handle the parts of a window not directly under the control of the application program, its time to go further. Let's dig into the methods exposed by the frame class hierarchy.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:26 +0200 Adobe Flex comes throughWeb bling tone Can Adobe Systems' Flex access Microsoft .NET web services? Adobe tends to promote its own ColdFusion or LiveCycle Data Services for use with Flex, but it also has support for SOAP 1.1.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:40:16 +0200 Trading hard ISV gains for the easy compileMiguel de Icaza has criticized plans for the next GNU Gnome cross-platform environment that risks damaging the Linux desktop ISV ecosystem by focusing on the Mac.… Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:17:53 +0200 What a difference a space makesMembers of Apple's brand-new App Store have cleaned up their act after accusations of unprofessionalism and queue jumping to get their software noticed by iPhone users.… Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:52:32 +0200 Membership has its advantagesThe team that founded Apache's Maven project has joined Eclipse to marry their popular framework and repository with the Eclipse platform and projects.… Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:03:26 +0200 'You want it? You can't have it'Google isn't just hiding the Android SDK from the world's developers. It's teasing them with it. Yesterday, just as we finished detailing the search giant's shabby treatment of mobile-minded coders, it treated them even worse, dangling its secret software developer's kit just under their proverbial noses.… Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:54 +0200 How to lose friends and alienate developersGoogle's strict code of secrecy may work fine for protecting its internal operations. But the company isn't ingratiating itself to software developers by keeping major updates to its Android mobile software platform locked away in a Mountain View dungeon. Now, even those developers once very committed to pushing Google's technology forward are thinking about abandoning Android – the most closed open platform to not yet exist.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:00:25 +0200 Are we there yet?The phrase “cloud computing” has been subjected to unnatural forms of marketing abuse. The buzzword pros have taken two nouns that we all recognize, combined them and formed a nebulous, hideous beast that means many things to many people.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:36:26 +0200 And EIF 2.0 draft is delayedAn open source software project, originally propped up by European Commission (EC) funds, has released an alpha version of its quality control program, Alitheia Core.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:24:48 +0200 Pedantic programmers hold love-inFail and You Protocol buffer: it’s the object serialization scheme the pretentious little shit on your development team has been talking at you about during lunch hours for the past couple of days. You’ve been feigning interest with a steady stream of “oh-yeahs” and “that-sounds-cools”, so you don’t really know what it is.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:30:50 +0200 Look at the 'ass' on that!Mozilla Corporation has claimed that the transition to Firefox 3.1 won’t be “a major pain-in-the-ass” and pledged developers will not be hit by “surprises along the way”, after royally hacking off users with the 3.0 launch.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:02:03 +0200 Ask not for whom the school bell tolls...JavaFX, part 2 Sun Microsystems lost the first Rich Internet Application (RIA) war when Macromedia (now part of Adobe) ate its applets for lunch following a schoolyard brawl. Now Sun has a second chance.… Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:02:03 +0200 Magic of application factoriesYou'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the software tools business who has seen more changes in programming than David Intersimone. Not all of them welcome.… Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:16:02 +0200 Less tax equals more games?Tax breaks for the British videogames industry moved a step closer this week, after a government Minister admitted that the administration must “look again” at the issue.… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:02:03 +0200 If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?Stob Are you a Web 1.0 duhveloper in a rut? Is rich web codery passing you by in Internet time? Do you nibble on the ASCII Alphabetti Spaghetti of server-side processing, while younger, feck- (careful) and talent-less colleagues slurp the UTF-Eightti Vermicelli of client-side coquetry?… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:59:19 +0200 'You're killing freesource'Exclusive Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:57:15 +0200 Open Source callingAnyone fond of creating their own applications within a open source environment will soon be able to get mobile. Openmoko has finally announced the launch date of its Neo FreeRunner open-source phone.… Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:44:08 +0200 A year in the makingAmazingly, it's now a whole year since metrosexuals and geeks waited patiently outside Apple and AT&T stores in the US for their very first iPhones. Since June 29 2007, the iPhone has gone from novelty spot to "oh, there's another" in bars and business meetings, as Apple has quickly overtaken Microsoft in US smartphone market share.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:45:30 +0200 Take a numberCall it the impossible dream. Every so often, somebody - usually from the Java side of the tracks - wants to best Microsoft's Visual Studio.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:51:53 +0200 Like a mainframe but closer to angelsStructure 08 Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:45 +0200 Open source BigTable and improve fluffiness, pleaseStructure 08 Yes, Google has opened its cloud to every developer down on earth. But for some, it's not quite as open as it should be.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:44 +0200 Second wind for Java application serversWe had an interesting conversation with Peter Cooper-Ellis, the guy who ran product management at BEA Systems from the time it acquired WebLogic and who's now taking on a similar role with SpringSource. Obviously, in the wake of the Oracle acquisition, it's not surprising that Cooper-Ellis jumped ship.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:02:03 +0200 To Io and beyond...The Eclipse Foundation wants to know who is using Eclipse and how they are using it ahead of next year's planned mega release.… Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:07:05 +0200 Position: videogame designer. Required: the right skills for the jobThe UK videogames industry is suffering because UK university courses aren’t equipping students with the right skills needed for the job, a gaming industry campaign group has warned. But it’s also partly the Wii’s fault, apparently.… Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:41:26 +0200 Patch to stay on the RailsDevelopers have patched five vulnerabilities in the open-source programming language Ruby that could provide a trivial way for attackers to exploit a variety of web applications.… Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:52:10 +0200 Capitalists, geezers and Google welcomeSalesforce.com's CEO has tried to nudge potential partners and customers away from the hosted computing services of Amazon, Google and Facebook by saying that Force.com is for serious business developers who want to make some coin.… Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:02:03 +0200 Quit patching, build a libraryEnterprises are spending a huge amount of effort scanning for vulnerabilities that they already know are in their applications. Here's a little secret: there's no point in scanning if you haven't at least tried to put in a basic set of defenses. You already know you're vulnerable.… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:02:04 +0200 Economy of language meets an excess of contextD'oh! There is a (probably apocryphal) entry in a naval officer's fitness report that reads: "This officer never makes the same mistake twice. However, he appears to be attempting to make them all once."… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:02:04 +0200 The spoils of moreOracle customers are starting to pay the price for its $23bn plus acquisition spree, with licensing hikes across all core middleware products.… Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:18:50 +0200 Deploy Windows and then obliterate itSummit One of the main community-driven projects that prompted Red Hat to open source its Satellite code today was the Linux boot server, Cobbler.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:22:05 +0200 Embraces the Canonical religionMySQL has ended its five-year relationship with BitKeeper and handed all code management for its database to a Canonical-backed system to secure broader community input on development.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:22:01 +0200 Does Eclipse and Microsoft on same dayFreescale Semiconductor, whose chips power a broad range of business and consumer devices, has spread its bets in embedded software development by joining the open source Eclipse Foundation and Microsoft's embedded partner programme.… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:02:04 +0200 Open your mindMac Secrets Time to look at the mysterious 'borderView' object, used by the Cocoa libraries to render a window to the screen. Although you'll not often need the specialised facilities provided by the border view, they can be very useful when creating certain kinds of application.… Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:56 +0200 EC2 adopts another appRed Hat is now brewing its JBoss Java application server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), marking the company's second round of making code available as an online pay-as-you-go service.… Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:02:02 +0200 A dual strategy with D?While initial reviews of Bill Gates’ final Microsoft keynote in his chief architect role were rather underwhelming, partner in crime Jack Vaughan caught one interesting detail that was latched onto by Michael Meehan this week: that Microsoft’s forthcoming Microsoft SOA strategy would indeed embrace Unified Modeling Language (UML) as its core modeling language.… Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:32:59 +0200 'Lucrative integration'eBay is throwing open its Selling Manager tool to external developers building high-volume businesses based on its online platform.… Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:02:02 +0200 Refined but bloatedThe Eclipse Foundation's annual code blitz - this year under the name Ganymede - kicks off at the end of this month with 24 Eclipse projects co-ordinating their new releases.… Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:19:23 +0200 Opens wallet to tough kidsJavaFX, part 1 The Rich Internet Application (RIA) fight is hotting up. And, while Adobe Systems and Microsoft are squaring up in the schoolyard with all the kids cheering and screaming them on, it looks as if Sun Microsystems is in danger of getting its lunch money stolen again.… Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:50:17 +0200 Sitting up, but not walking aboutApple has decided that developers can use Sun Microsystems' DTrace tool to monitor applications under its Mac OS/X operating system after all. Well, sort of.… Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:02:02 +0200 DLR stays closed, IronPython to accept donationsIt's official: Microsoft will not accept any external code contributions to its planned Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), which will run Microsoft's new scripting languages for the web and Silverlight content on .NET… Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:30:49 +0200 Apathy 2.0The OpenAjax Alliance is trying to gee up the AJAX community after a disappointing response to its call for a wish list of features vendors should add to browsers.… Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:02:02 +0200 Cloudy conjectureIngres originator Jerry Held has become the latest database big gun to take aim at traditional database management systems (DBMS), saying they are unsuited to cloud computing.… Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:06:52 +0200 Deals in multiple multi-threaded appsAMD is making deals with a pair of multi-threaded code wranglers today in a move to help high performance computing applications shine on multi-core chips and graphics cards.… |
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