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Google on innovation – or should that be copying?

By tim, on March 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Patrick Copeland, Google Director of Engineering, gave the keynote at QCon London this morning. His theme was innovation: how it works at Google and elsewhere.

I was expecting some background on Google’s famous 20% time, where employees spent up to one day a week on something not in their job description, but I

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Appcelerator releases Titanium Mobile 1.6

By tim, on February 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator has released Titanium Mobile 1.6, an update to its cross-platform app framework for Apple iOS and Google Android.

The update adds 26 features for Android and 9 features for iOS. The Facebook API has been completely redone, keeping up-to-date with the latest Facebook API. There is beta support for the Android NDK –

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IE9 in Windows Phone will be good for cross-platform JavaScript and HTML5 apps

By tim, on February 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, accompanied by Nokia’s Stephen Elop, showed coming updates for Windows Phone 7 at a Mobile World Congress keynote last night.

A minor update due in early March will add copy and paste, and CDMA support is also coming in the first half of 2011.

The more interesting update is planned

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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

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Appcelerator acquires Aptana

By tim, on January 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator, a company whose main product is a cross-platform desktop and mobile toolkit called Titanium, has acquired Aptana, whose Aptana Studio 2 is probably the best IDE for JavaScript application development, and which also supports Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, and Adobe AIR.

It makes sense, in that Titanium uses JavaScript as the primary

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Visual Studio 2010 nine months on: how good has it proved?

By tim, on January 12th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Visual Studio 2010 was released on April 12th 2010. Nine months on, how good has it proved to be?

I researched deeply into Visual Studio 2010 at the time, and was impressed overall. It was a huge release, partly because the IDE was rebuilt using Windows Presentation Foundation, and partly because of a

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Single sign-on from Active Directory to Windows Azure: big feature, still challenging

By tim, on December 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted a white paper setting out what you need to do in order to have users who are signed on to a local Windows domain seamlessly use an Azure-hosted application, without having to sign in again.

I think this is a huge feature. Maintaining a single user directory is more secure and

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Don’t miss Ryan Dahl on Node.js

By tim, on December 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from Dreamforce in San Francisco, where one of the sessions I enjoyed most was from Ryan Dahl in the Cloudstock pre-conference event.

He is the author of node.js, a binding for the V8 Javascript engine, not for running in the browser but for creating server apps. However, it is interesting even

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Speeding page load with dynamic JavaScript

By tim, on June 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m delighted that ITWriting.com is sufficiently popular to sustain some advertising. I’m not pleased though with the impact on performance. The problem is that ads such as those from Google Adsense or Blogads are delivered by remote scripts. It usually looks something like this in the HTML:

When the

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Why programmers should study Microsoft’s random failure and not trust Google search

By tim, on March 9th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The 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

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