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By tim, on February 21st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMike Hendrickson at O’Reilly has posted four articles analysing the state of the computer book market in more detail than most of us care about. The overall picture is not too good – sales are down – and there are some interesting trends.
Here is a good one for anyone who thinks Java
…continue reading Computer book stats show resilience of Java as Android booms
By tim, on February 16th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterHere’s the sign in Placa d’Espanya next to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A touch of optimism.
…continue reading Java Me is the top mobile platform says Oracle
By tim, on January 19th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAmazon has announced Elastic Beanstalk, which lets you deploy an application to Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and have it scale up or down, by launching or terminating server instances, according to demand. There is no additional cost for using Elastic Beanstalk; you are charged for the instances you use.
Here is a dialog
…continue reading Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk auto-scales your cloud application
By tim, on January 17th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAlex Payne, CTO at BankSimple, has written an analysis of Adobe AIR from the user’s perspective. The scenario: his team was looking for a an alternative to Campfire for group chat, and selected HipChat. They liked the features of HipChat, but not the desktop app, which is built using Adobe AIR:
My team experienced
…continue reading Adobe AIR is user-hostile compared to native apps says BankSimple CTO
By tim, on January 11th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterGoogle has announced that it will remove support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser:
…we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support
…continue reading Google flexes its Chrome browser muscles, removes support for H.264 video – but what about Adobe Flash?
By tim, on January 7th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterApple’s App Store Review Guidelines appear to forbid Java or Adobe AIR applications from being published in the store:
Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java, [PowerPC code requiring] Rosetta) will be rejected.
Since Adobe AIR is not shipped by default with OS X, any applications requiring that runtime will not
…continue reading No Java or Adobe AIR apps in Apple’s Mac App Store
By tim, on December 31st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterThis was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant.
Sun Java became Oracle Java
Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still Java, but Oracle lacks Sun’s commitment to open source and community – though even in Sun days
…continue reading Ten big tech trends from 2010
By tim, on December 17th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI received a Google TV as an attendee at the Adobe MAX conference earlier this year; to be exact, a Logitech Revue. It is not yet available or customised for the UK, but with its universal power supply and standard HDMI connections it works OK, with some caveats.
The main snag with my evaluation
…continue reading First impressions of Google TV – get an Apple iPad instead?
By tim, on December 6th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve just attended a Cloudstock session on Google App Engine and new Google platform technologies – an introductory talk by Google’s Christian Schalk.
App Engine has been a subject of considerable debate recently, thanks to a blog post by Carlos Ble called Goodbye App Engine:
Choosing GAE as the platform four our project
…continue reading Google App Engine and why vendor honesty pays
By tim, on November 19th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterA week or so ago I posted about the Java crisis and what it means for developers. The post attracted attention both here and later on The Guardian web site where it appeared as a technology blog. It was also picked up by Reddit prompting a discussion with over 500 posts.
So what
…continue reading What you are saying about the Java crisis
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