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Eclipse and Xtend: some confusion in getting started

By tim, on November 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last weekend there was some publicity around Xtend, an Eclipse project which extends Java with new language features. Xtend now has a new landing page, as announced by the lead architect Sven Efftinge.

I did intend to post about this yesterday, but I wanted to see it in action first, so I tried to download

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Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on June 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, an IDE built with Aptana, the Eclipse-based IDE which the company acquired in January. It is an interesting products because it lets you build cross-platform mobile apps for Apple iOS, Google Android, and Blackberry, as well as desktop applications.

I downloaded the community edition and gave it a quick try.

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Mobl: a new language for mobile applications, with Eclipse integration

By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

It has gradually dawned on me that, contrary to first appearances, the Apple iPhone and iPad do come with a capable application runtime for those who would rather not tangle with Objective C; and one on which you can run applications without the hassle of negotiating the App Store. This runtime is the WebKit-based browser

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The desktop versus web application debate

By tim, on September 11th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I posted a piece entitled Desktop applications are dead which attracted the following comment:

Web apps have plenty of cons too. You seem to only be looking to the Pros.

There’s something in it; though the article is a little more nuanced than its title. There’s also another debate to be had around the question

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Symbian appeals to Traveling Geeks: develop for our platform

By tim, on July 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended a Traveling Geeks event in London last night, a party sponsored mainly by Symbian and NESTA. I returned with a large pile of business cards from folk involved in a diverse range of initiatives. Kate Arkless Gray told me about Save our Sounds, a BBC World Service project to archive and map interesting

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Eclipse survey shows Windows decline

By tim, on June 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

In May 2009 the open source Eclipse project surveyed its users. Visitors to the Eclipse site were asked to complete a survey, and 1365 did so. That’s out of around 1 million visitors, which shows how much we all hate surveys. Anyway, this report [pdf] was the result. A similar survey [pdf] was carried out

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Survey ranks developer tools, and reveals what developers care about most

By tim, on June 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Evans Data has published its 2009 Software Development Platforms survey, to which around 1200 developers contributed, scoring their chosen development tools in eighteen different categories.

The tools covered are Eclipse, Embarcadero’s Delphi, IBM’s Rational Suite, IntelliJ, Microsoft’s Visual Studio, NetBeans, Oracle JDeveloper and Sun Studio.

I was sorry not to see more products

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Google’s cut-down Java: wanton and irresponsible, or just necessary?

By tim, on April 15th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Sun’s Simon Phipps stirred things up last weekend when he called Google’s actions wanton and irresponsible. Its crime: delivering a cut-down Java library for use on its App Engine platform, “flaunting the rules” which forbid creating sub-sets of the core classes.

It does sound as if Google is not talking to Sun as much as

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Microsoft Expression Web causes PHP error

By tim, on January 23rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I ran into a strange and surprising PHP error today. I’m working on a little PHP application which has a login page. The login script calls session_start() to start or resume a PHP session. It was working OK so I decided to decorate the page a little (I was working in Eclipse). I like to

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Develop for Adobe Flex in Microsoft Visual Studio – or maybe not

By tim, on November 17th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

News from the Adobe MAX conference this week in San Francisco: Ensemble has developed an add-in for Visual Studio for Flex development, code-name Tofino. It’s currently in beta and available for download. Flex is Adobe’s developer-focused SDK for Flash applications.

I installed it this morning, and so far it does not impress. There is zero

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