By tim, on March 9th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterThe bizarre story of the EU-mandated Windows browser choice screen took an unexpected twist recently when it was noticed that the order of the browsers was not truly random.
IBM’s Rob Weir was not the first to spot the problem, but did a great job in writing it up, both when initially observed and after it
…continue reading Why programmers should study Microsoft’s random failure and not trust Google search
By tim, on February 8th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterI spent a few minutes trying out Ares, Palm’s web-based IDE for WebOS, the OS used in the Palm Pre smartphone.
Ares is in public beta and I’m not going to pretend I found it smooth going. No doubt it will be fine after a little patient learning. It is amazing, with drag-and-drop visual interface builder,
…continue reading Palm Ares: an online IDE for WebOS development
By tim, on January 11th, 2010
Follow tim on TwitterToday Martin Fowler at Thoughtworks tweeted a link to the just-published Thoughtworks Technology Radar [pdf] paper, which aims to “help decision makers understand emerging technologies and trends that affect the market today”.
It is a good read, as you would expect from Thoughtworks, a software development company with a bias towards
…continue reading Technology trends: Silverlight, Flex little use says Thoughtworks as it Goes Google
By tim, on August 12th, 2009
Follow tim on TwitterThe Flash community is disturbing the quiet of August by beating up ActionScript, the language of Flash, Flex and AIR. ActionScript is based on JavaScript, and took huge strides in version 3.0, introduced with Flash Player 9. Just-in-time compilation greatly improved performance, while the core language got optional strong typing, namespaces, sealed classes, and other
…continue reading Where next for Adobe ActionScript?
By tim, on June 11th, 2009
Follow tim on TwitterToday I installed Safari 4.0, and one of the features which caught my eye is its local database support. No, it’s not new, but perhaps has not received the attention it deserves. The feature lets you use a local SQLite database from JavaScript, both online and offline, and works on the iPhone 2.0 and higher
…continue reading Local SQL support in Safari vs Google Gears: what is happening?
By tim, on February 4th, 2009
Follow tim on TwitterI’ve been doing some work on JavaScript editors recently, and was impressed by Microsoft’s Visual Studio in this respect. Here’s my post on the subject. By the way, even the free Express edition works fine for this; and you don’t need to use ASP.NET. You do need to use Internet Explorer of course; that’s another
…continue reading Visual Studio 2008 as a JavaScript editor
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