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RemObjects has released Oxygene for Java, a new version of its Object Pascal compiler. Object Pascal is pretty much the Delphi language though with some additional features of its own. Previous versions target the .NET runtime, and a version of this is marketed by Embarcadero as Prism. The IDE for Oxygene is Microsoft’s Visual …continue reading Oxygene for Java released: develop for Android and Java runtime with Delphi language in Visual Studio 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 …continue reading Eclipse and Xtend: some confusion in getting started Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did. Dart is a …continue reading Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why? I like this book. I know I like it because I find myself wanting to quote from it frequently. It is a book that almost every software developer should read, even if you disagree with parts of it – which is likely, because it is opinionated. The authors always give reasons for their opinions …continue reading Review: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley Salesforce.com has made a host of announcements at its Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco. In brief: Chatter, the Salesforce.com social networking platform for enterprises, is being extended with presence status, screen sharing, approval actions, and the ability to create groups with customers as well as with internal users. Salesforce.com calls this …continue reading Heroku gets Java, Salesforce.com embraces HTML5 for mobile Oracle has released Java SE 7: Oracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the first release of the Java platform under Oracle stewardship. What’s in Java SE 7? Despite the full version number increment, I am tempted to call this an interim release. In December 2010 …continue reading Java Standard Edition 7 is done, but feels like an interim release I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO and co-founder of Infragistics, at TechEd in Atlanta earlier this week. Infragistics makes components, mainly for Windows but now beginning to support non-Windows clients. There is a set of jQuery controls in preparation, and “Our roadmaps are also going to deliver native on Android and iPhone,” Guida told …continue reading Infragistics: upbeat on Windows Phone but also building for Apple iOS, Google Android Google has updated App Engine to 1.4.3. The new version adds: Prospective Search API for Python – this lets you register a large set of queries which are executed against a flow of data so you can create notifications or other actions whenever a match is found. Testbed Unit Test Framework for Python – …continue reading Fit for business? Google updates App Engine with the Enterprise in mind RIM has announced several new options for developing apps for its PlayBook tablet. RIM will launch two optional “app players” that provide an application run-time environment for BlackBerry Java® apps and Android v2.3 apps. These new app players will allow users to download BlackBerry Java apps and Android apps from BlackBerry App World and …continue reading RIM announces Java and Android runtimes for the Playbook, beta of native SDK |
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