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The Java crisis and what it means for developers

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

What is happening with the Java language and runtime? Since Java passed into the hands of Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, there has been a succession of bad news. To recap:

The JavaOne conference in September 2010 was held in the shadow of Oracle OpenWorld making it a less significant event than in previous

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Why we love to hate Microsoft

By tim, on June 28th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Mary Branscombe has an excellent ZDNet post on Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft, and asks:

What would Microsoft need to do and say to you for you to be happy to call yourself a fan?

In part she’s reacting to Frank Shaw’s Microsoft by the Numbers in which he highlights the success of

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Microsoft - make up your mind about Moonlight

By tim, on April 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, as provided for the release version of SharePoint 2010. The cross platform story is uneven, whether across Mac/Windows/Linux, or across different browsers, or even across different versions of Windows and Office. So far it does mostly work though, even if there are problems with certain tasks like

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Mono Tools for Visual Studio: code on Windows, run on Linux

By tim, on February 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I have just com across Mono Tools, a Novell add-in for Visual Studio that lets you test Mono compatibility. It adds a Mono menu which has options to run locally or remotely in Mono, analyze for compatibility issues, and create deployment packages. No sign of Mac support, which is a missed opportunity, but understandable given

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Windows 7 booms for Microsoft, everything else is flat

By tim, on January 29th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has had a bumper quarter driven by Windows 7, as expected. I’ve put this into a table as I have before.

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Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell

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

The Mono Project has released Moonlight 2, its implementation of Silverlight for Linux. I tried my own database application and was pleased to find that it works fine; better than it did with the earlier release.

Note the right-click menu which offers some handy debugging features as well as the invitation to “Install Microsoft

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Miguel de Icaza on eight years of Mono, its future, and the Silverlight desktop

By tim, on October 29th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Mono founder Miguel de Icaza spoke at the Monospace conference – 250 enthusiasts in Austin, Texas – on the past and future of the project. I wasn’t there but enjoyed listening to the keynote as posted by Redmonk’s Michael Coté.

“Never ask for permission, ask for forgiveness – that’s how we’ve done a lot

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Microsoft brings Silverlight – not Mono – to Linux via Intel

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

Yesterday I speculated about what was meant by the inclusion of Silverlight among supported runtimes for Intel’s Moblin Linux, which is being used on netbooks using the Atom processor. I had assumed it was some new development of Moonlight, Mono’s Silverlight implementation, but apparently this is not the case. Here’s what Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb, director

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Is Mono safe to use?

By tim, on July 8th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has promised not to sue those who develop implementations of its C# language and Common Language Infrastructure – the heart of .NET.

You might assume that to be good news for Mono, the open source implementation of .NET sponsored by Novell; and I suppose it is, though not in any major way.

The key

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Code for Mac Cocoa in Visual Studio – surprised to see this?

By tim, on November 9th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I grabbed this screenshot from a preview just installed:

It comes from Delphi Prism, a new product from Embarcadero/Codegear which lets you code for .NET using the Delphi language, an object-oriented version of Pascal. The product is not as new as it first appears. It is based on an existing product from RemObjects,

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