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The most striking and surprising presentation at the Monki Gras developer event in London earlier this week was from two quietly spoken men from the UK government’s Cabinet Office. James Stewart and Matt Wall work on the Government Data Service (GDS), and what they are doing is revolutionary. What is the GDS? “It’s a …continue reading A quiet revolution in UK government IT: open source ousting big-vendor lock-in I attended The Monki Gras in London yesterday, a distinctive developer event arranged by the analyst firm RedMonk. This was not only a developer event, with the likes of Andre Charland and Dave Johnson from the PhoneGap team at Adobe, Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, and Jason Hoffman with …continue reading How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London I spoke to Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie yesterday, just before today’s announcement of the opening of an EMEA headquarters in Reading. It has only 4 or 5 staff at the moment, mostly sales and marketing, but will expand into professional services and training. Appcelerator’s product is a cross-platform (though see below) development platform for …continue reading Appcelerator CEO on EMEA expansion, Titanium vs PhoneGap, and how WebKit drives HTML5 standards I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats: Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I …continue reading Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next I was intrigued by reports of nide, a web-based IDE for Node.js. It was one of the entries in the Node.js Knockout challenge last summer. So how do you install it? One line on Linux; but I did not want to put it on my web server and I re-purposed my spare Linux machine …continue reading Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js Asus has responded to demands for an unlocked bootloader for its its latest Transformer Prime tablet. It turns out that DRM is the culprit – at least, that is what Asus says on its Facebook page: Regarding the bootloader, the reason we chose to lock it is due to content providers’ requirement for …continue reading Asus Transformer Prime update: Google video rental or unlocked bootloader, you choose The new Asus Transformer Prime TF201 Android tablet is winning praise for its performance and flexibility. It is driven by NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor and can be equipped with a keyboard and dock that extends battery life and makes the device more like a laptop. All good; but techie users are upset that …continue reading Users petition Asus over locked bootloader in Asus Transformer Prime Patent blogger Florian Mueller quotes a statement filed by Oracle in its legal dispute with Google over its use of the Java language in Android: Android’s growth in the mobile device market has been exponential, steadily diminishing Java’s share. For instance, Amazon’s newly-released Kindle Fire tablet is based on Android, while prior versions of …continue reading Android: good or bad for Java? Oracle claims harm but I am sceptical HP has announced that webOS, the mobile operating system acquired with Palm, will become an open source project: HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other hardware manufacturers can deliver ongoing enhancements and new versions into the marketplace. HP will engage …continue reading HP contributes webOS to open source. Where next for HP mobile devices? |
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