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I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine what you are doing and may kick you into a better place. Here’s what I noticed this year. Robert C Martin from Object Mentor …continue reading QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things I’m watching Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer present a session on cloud computing. It’s been underwhelming so far, but I was interested to see how Sky TV will look on Xbox 360 (though I’d readily swap it for BBC iPlayer, which Microsoft seems to be obstructing). The key point: you can watch with your Xbox Live friends …continue reading Microsoft’s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction I attended this morning’s VMWare roundtable, debating the rather silly proposition that IT should be removed from the boardroom agenda. To be fair, even VMWare does not really believe this, but is arguing that its virtualisation technology makes IT service provision so trouble-free that the board can focus on IT as it advances their business, …continue reading VMWare: the cloud is private Adobe has fully released LiveCycle Managed Services, offering a hosted platform for LiveCycle applications. The software is configured and managed by Adobe, but runs on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) virtual servers. LiveCycle is a suite of applications which I think of as two things combined. On the one hand, it forms a server platform for …continue reading Pros and cons of Adobe’s LiveCycle services in the cloud According to Jerry Huang of Gladinet, whose Cloud Desktop exposes a variety of cloud storage services as mapped drives in Windows Explorer, Google storage is “about 10 times cheaper” than Windows Azure. Since Amazon S3 has similar prices to Azure, I imagine Google undercuts that by some margin as well. Gladinet compares Google and Azure using …continue reading Google storage 10 times cheaper than Azure – but not as cheap as Skydrive Microsoft has had a bumper quarter driven by Windows 7, as expected. I’ve put this into a table as I have …continue reading Windows 7 booms for Microsoft, everything else is flat Microsoft has released a tutorial game called Ribbon Hero in its Office Labs. This installs an Office add-in for Word and Excel which watches you work. It has several features. When you perform an action such as Copy and Paste for the first time, it awards you points. You get further points by performing “challenges”, …continue reading What does Ribbon Hero say about Microsoft Office? I’ve held back comment on the much-hyped HP and Microsoft three-year deal announced on Wednesday mainly because I’ve been uncertain of its significance, if any. It didn’t help that the press release was particularly opaque, full of words with many syllables but little meaning. I received the release minutes before the conference call, during which …continue reading New HP and Microsoft agreement commits $50 million less than similar 2006 deal |
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