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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:29:17 +0200 Last minute glitch kills welcoming partySun 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 Retro geek hog heavenFirefox 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 Jobs' past revisitedMac 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 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 Learn now, pays laterWeb 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 The new browser warsHackers 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 SQL tools plug gapsWhat 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 Parlez-vous GoogleTalk? Er, noAndroid 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 Microsoft not the only fruitEmbarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows.… Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:53:25 +0200 Modular Linux goodies returnHardware 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 How Google and Amazon will take your money and step on your dreamsFail 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 Open alternative prepares for programmingSadville 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 Potential riches uncertainReview 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 Silver lining meets cloudWith 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 20,000 applications, one open phoneOlympics 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 Splash of AquaMac 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 T-Mobile confirms Googlephone launch. IshT-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.… Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:44:14 +0200 Four-letter wordA year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version. The items are not in any kind of order - they also reflect my interest in application development rather than design. It is not a definitive list, so there are many more points you could make - by all means comment - and it will be interesting to have another look a year from now when the real thing has been out for a while.… Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:08 +0200 Adobe dons brave faceAdobe Systems appears to have been wrong footed and Microsoft left crowing on JavaScript’s evolution, following a decision by the ECMA.… Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200 A time to queryHands on PHP is one of the most commonly used languages for developing web sites while XML has become an industry standard for exchanging data. Increasingly, web sites use XML to transfer data through web feeds such as RSS and Atom, or through web services.… Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:36:34 +0200 Eclipsed, again?Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question.… Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:15:00 +0200 Program like a city traderMicrosoft has again hinted at changes in the next major release of Visual Studio allowing developers to spread out across different monitors.… Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200 The language that refused to dieInspite - or perhaps because - of its "difficult" birth, Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) has become a survivor in the world of computing. That's caused problems when it comes to maintaining systems running the language.… Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:46:26 +0200 Open source travellerSun Microsystems has taken another step in its long journey towards greater support of open source by delivering the first beta of its next crop of NetBeans.… Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:01:01 +0200 'Just a little longer'Exclusive Graphics and games engineers angered by the delayed OpenGL spec and threatening to adopt Microsoft's DirectX have been asked to hold out a little longer for promised changes.… Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:11:26 +0200 Olympic performance gets testedThat's really the question John Markoff is asking in this New York Times piece about the way the NBC Olympics streaming video is putting Microsoft's browser plug-in on the map. Someone has even popped up to state that this is another go at technology monopoly:… Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200 Who's biting?Yes, Apple has a lot to answer for. Having hooked the iPhone into Microsoft's Exchange email server, so business types can now read corporate emails horizontally, more tried-and-tested enterprise vendors are revisiting the concept of mobile business computing.… Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:52:56 +0200 On the emasculation of Twitter and Dirty HarryFail and You Hadoop is a library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce framework. It's got all the makings of a blogosphere hit: cluster computing, large datasets, parallelism, algorithms published by Google, and open source. Every four days or so, a nerd will discover Hadoop, write a “Basic MapReduce Tutorial with Hadoop” tutorial on his blog with some trivial examples, and feel satisfied with himself for educating the world about a yet-undiscovered gem. Comparatively, very few people actually use Hadoop in practice, and those who do don't write about it. Why? Because they're adults who don't care about getting on the front page of Digg.… Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:02:54 +0200 Membership has its privilegesLinuxWorld For all its talk of openness, just a quarter of the code in the LiMo Foundation's mobile platform is open source, making it a minefield to navigate in terms of protected patents - 300,000 patents to be precise.… Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:25:16 +0200 Adapt us, pleaseLinuxWorld Enterprising engineers will soon get the chance to find out how Openmoko's Linux-powered phones work and to modify them.… Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200 It’s not you, it’s the BI and database engineReview Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now upon us. More than a year after its initial planned delivery date, Microsoft Wednesday released to manufacturing code for a new version of its database that's almost as significant as its last great release - SQL Server 2005, three years ago.… Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:16:58 +0200 Power6 to the peopleLinuxWorld IBM has marked the tenth anniversary of its commitment to Linux by going nuclear on high-performance computing.… Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:15:44 +0200 Offers cash for appsFacebook is offering grants to developers making applications for the social networking site - entries must be in by 29 August.… Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:08:40 +0200 Two weeks and countingOracle's post BEA Systems acquisition roadmap hits the ground running in the next two weeks with the delivery of version 10.3 of BEA's popular application server.… Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:48:02 +0200 Slims for XP, data friendly for webFirst, it was Windows XP SP1. Then Windows Vista SP3. Now it's the Visual Studio and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, due by the end of summer. The connection? Microsoft's service packs keep growing in importance as a means of updating key products between official releases.… Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:03 +0200 With great programming comes great responsibilityAll web applications allow some form of rich data, but that rich data has become a key part of Web 2.0. Data is "rich" if it allows markup, special characters, images, formatting, and other complex syntax. This richness allows users create new and innovative content and services.… Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:19:05 +0200 Determined to resist RIA successYou have to respect Sun Microsystems' persistence on NetBeans - repeatedly trying to get you to inadvertently use the thing by including it with other stuff.… Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:36 +0200 If you ignore WindowsIf Microsoft has a beating heart then the senior director of Microsoft platform strategy Sam Ramji reckons he's found it.… Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:26:12 +0200 The Reg calls on Google to open Street ViewSo Googlers are driving their cars around the UK at the moment snapping pictures of every bit of every road and everyone and everything around them - and causing a bit of a privacy hoopla.… Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:44:02 +0200 Vertical Computer Systems kicks sue ball into standsMicrosoft settled a patent lawsuit with Vertical Computer Systems Inc (VCS) late last week.… Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:56:56 +0200 Transactional memory: The great nerd equalizerFail and You I don’t know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad fork. Locks, mutexes, the Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:08 +0200 Less is moreOSCON The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.… Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:02:12 +0200 Ponies up to Apache, endorses LGPLOSCON After years of hostility towards Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing (here and here) Microsoft has announced the first in a series of PHP patches - and it's using an FSF license.… Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:25:25 +0200 From iTunes to Apple Developer ConnectionsAccount hijackers have targeted Apple iTunes for months, but now they're hitting Apple developers as well.… 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.… |
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