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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:21:04 +0100 The 'stressed stack' futureQCon 2009 Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems’ Director of Web Technologies, found himself manning “the hangover slot” to give the morning keynote at day-two of the Qcon developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:13:12 +0100 This is not The Matrix. But it isQCon 2009 Agile development practices may be growing in popularity among developers, but agilistas aren't getting much love from software architects.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:06:11 +0100 Subscription service customers onlyIn brief Sun Microsystems has added a query analysis tool to MySQL, but for paying customers only.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:46:36 +0100 Sun burnishes scripting credentialsSun Microsystems has released its latest version of NetBeans, adding expanded support for dynamic languages.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:05 +0100 Layoffs be damned!Adobe MAX Sun Microsystems has promised to deliver on JavaFX despite uncertainty in the wake of massive layoffs and a corporate re-organization.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:22:24 +0100 Pay-as-you-go caching
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:14 +0100 RIA lipstick warsAdobe MAX The next version of Flex Builder will help Windows developers slap an Adobe-authored front-end on data-centric .NET applications.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:44:41 +0100 Big release, big Windows tie inPreview Visual Studio is locked so closely to Microsoft's platform that it cannot be prised apart and assessed in isolation. The forthcoming Visual Studio 2010, for better or worse, continues this tradition.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:01:56 +0100 Standards that suitAdobe MAX Adobe Systems' chief technology officer has placed his faith standards bodies to help overcome Balkanization in an important web technology, despite losing a recent round of vendor combat.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:13:29 +0100 Adobe throws sand in Microsoft's faceAdobe MAX Microsoft has tried to cast a shadow over RIA and cloud news at Adobe Systems' annual MAX conference by talking up Silverlight's roadmap.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:02:04 +0100 Get behind Activity MonitorMac Secrets One of the many secrets hidden away inside OS X is a private undocumented library called GraphKit.framework. Despite being private, the name is familiar to many Mac developers - and for all the wrong reasons.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:02:03 +0100 End of the single Player?Adobe MAX Adobe is expected to showcase tools and runtimes today with ARM and Qualcomm for Flash-powered rich internet applications (RIAs) on phones and devices.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:39:13 +0100 'Big' data and the BI challengeMainstream database management system (DBMS) technology faces a challenge from new approaches that reject the relational model. The battleground is set to be the market for business intelligence based on very large databases.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:47:18 +0100 Sequential is so overIntel has enlisted chip rivals to push for making parallel programming a higher priority on computer science courses.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:09:38 +0100 Best things come in small management packagesFor the cloud to become more like an operating system and less like an amorphous mass, and by definition more useful to business, some basic functions need to become part of the fabric.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:20:03 +0100 Devil, meet details...Microsoft's CodePlex site could be revised before the year's out to signpost genuinely open-source projects, after the company got itself in hot water.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:40:04 +0100 Java meets dynamic languagesSpringSource hopes to attract Java developers in the enterprise and dynamic languages fans with its acquisition of Groovy and Grails specialist G2One.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:24:50 +0100 Five top tipsWeb applications have huge attack surfaces. Most sites have hundreds of URLs, and each function has plenty of parameters, form fields, cookies, and headers for attackers to play with.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:02:06 +0100 One-package Office developmentMicrosoft is today expected to unveil deep discounts along with features for Visual Studio 2010 to encourage uptake and ease the headache of rolling out applications for different flavors of Office.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:02:06 +0100 Dude, I'm desperateFail and You Michael Dell will never miss an opportunity to sell you some shit you don't need. Attendees of this year's Dreamforce conference saw a first hand demonstration of this, having to sit through about an hour's worth of of Dell's Always-Be-Closing pitch. Trying his hardest to look like Steve Jobs, Dell successfully turned the Salesforce users' conference into a dog and pony show.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:13:29 +0100 After the hype, the hurtThe open-source Eclipse Foundation is terminating several service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects thanks to lack of interest.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:02:11 +0100 History repeating itself?Afterlife Panel Like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 before it, the phrase "cloud computing" has become catnip to marketing zealots and lost souls of the IT industry.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:40:18 +0100 Vista all over againMicrosoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's software for one of its fledgling products… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:55:25 +0100 Their survival depends on your spendingDreamforce 2008 "Code baby code" and more people buying servers and PCs - Dell servers and PCs, to be precise. That's Michael Dell's secret to surviving the current economic downturn.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:02:03 +0100 Elite in charge?Members of the Debian community are up in arms following a surprise announcement over the way project participants are vetted and organized.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:10:37 +0100 If only there was a scheduling appDreamforce 2008 In the vexed world of interoperability, Salesforce.com is treading a line between pragmatism and idealism.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:33:25 +0100 Microsoft "scared" of cloudsDreamforce 2008 In a world where "software as a service" was looking dated, Salesforce.com's has gone hip with Facebook and Amazon while taking swipes at Microsoft's attempts to be cool.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:02:03 +0100 Behind the whiteboard of confusionFail and You Unveiled earlier this month at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference by Chief Whiteboard Operator Ray Ozzie, the Azure Services Platform confused damn near everyone. But after days of collaboration with the top minds in both industry and academia, El Reg is proud to announce that we have finally figured out what Microsoft Azure is.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:15:44 +0100 OMG ur a qt 2In brief Nokia-owned Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) today released a tech preview of its cross-platform environment for creating embedded applications on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:11:20 +0100 Blinded by the SilverlightPDC Microsoft is reaching out to open-source and adding a dash of RIA bling to its latest model-driven development crusade.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:57:30 +0100 Closing gap on Microsoft?PDC The open-source edition of Silverlight could soon have feature parity with the latest, official release of Microsoft's browser-based media player.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:18:55 +0100 Previews first quarter 2009PDC Microsoft has scheduled the first quarter of 2009 for the first code drop of Silverlight for mobile devices.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:30:58 +0100 'Opens' code for social networking's dying breathAfter announcing last week that it will lay off 1,400 employees, Yahoo! managers have birthed a new strategy that could recoup much of its soon-to-be-lost engineering talent: Get somebody else to do the work for free.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:24:37 +0100 Don't put your business on the cloud, Mrs. WorthingtonPDC That sudden drop in customers your Windows cloud application is experiencing could be because it's too popular and Microsoft is blocking your traffic.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:15:38 +0100 EC2 for grown ups?PDC Amazon's EC2 has overshadowed Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference where Steve Ballmer and Co. finally announced their cloud-computing architecture, codenamed Red Dog.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:02:03 +0100 Open, with limitationsWeb bling tone Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0, released this month for Windows and Mac, is a tipping point. This is the version that gives developers the features they have long been waiting for, including a cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:02:05 +0100 30 per cent to the bag manFail and You "Listen up, friend. We take care of the community. We all protect each other. You wanna set up shop in this neighborhood, you're gonna need some protection, you know what I'm sayin'? I mean, you got a real nice business here, nice store, nice people. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it. Fire, robbery, these things happen all the time, but we can make sure they don't - at least to you. Let's say 30 per cent of your daily take? It's not in your best interest to say no to guys like us. It's bad for your health."… Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:33:37 +0200 Cherokee Nation awaitsA well-intentioned attempt to make XML less exclusive to certain ethic groups actually risks causing breakage for those it's intended to help.… Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:08 +0200 Talk over your colleaguesAJAXWorld Not content with its current roster of collaboration software, IBM is spinning up an effort based on completely open technologies including AJAX.… Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:02:03 +0200 The fat app still hasn't sungThe leaves might be falling, and the first installment of Sun Microsystems' JavaFX might still not be here, but the company has delivered what it's calling a "milestone" for its rich internet application (RIA) platform and runtime.… Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:27:05 +0200 AIR on an iPhoneAJAXWorld Adobe Systems' technology chief has made a play for open-source hearts and minds with Flash Player and AIR.… Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:38:56 +0200 Scripted response?AJAXWorld A group pushing interoperability between competing AJAX tools and widgets has claimed a wave of certification, although results are far from clear.… Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:23:09 +0200 More than Michael PhelpsAJAXWorld Scott Guthrie has been making a serious business pitch for Microsoft's browser-based media player rival to Adobe Systems' Flash.… Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:02:03 +0200 'Get back to work, c**kbite'Fail and You Earlier this month, Apple lifted the heavy-handed nondisclosure agreement it imposes on developers. This NDA regulated what tips and tricks developers may share with each other (hint: none), which made it a real pain in the ass to publish a book about iPhone programming. Developers got really buttsore over this and did what developers do best: They blogged about it. Book publishers pissed and moaned, all the while under the impression that people still buy programming books. After this wave of anal pain circulated through the internet, Apple finally lifted the NDA.… Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:41:45 +0200 Sync thisMicrosoft had released the first version of the .NET code that'll underpin collaboration services in the company's planned cloud platform.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:02:03 +0200 Cross platform hits its limitsDespite huge spending and a never ending supply of new products, enterprise IT is no less complicated than it was a few years ago. Cloud computing with all of its promises is still more of an aspirin for your headache than a cure for your infrastructure disease.… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:02:03 +0200 Free for allSpringSource is taking steps towards becoming an online destination for those hunting open-source Java components guaranteed as OSGi-compliant.… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:41:30 +0200 Three dozen bulletins - multiple critical vulnsIt's no-questions-asked overtime for data centre staffers again, after Oracle published its latest monster update batch on Wednesday night.… Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:36:23 +0200 Demands $12.5m for the pint that isn'tAn iPhone app developer is suing the Molson Coors Brewing company for over $12.5m in damages for allegedly copying his $3 novelty beer-pouring application and offering it on iTunes for free.… Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:13:53 +0200 SquirrelFish in the GreenhouseNokia-owned Trolltech has been promoting a planned environment for building embedded applications on Mac, Linux, and Windows machines.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms |
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