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By tim, on October 22nd, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterThoughtWorks has released its latest Technology Radar, an opinionated analysis of software development trends.
Things the folk at ThoughtWorks like include automated build and deployment, essential for Continuous delivery; NOSQL database managers especially Neo4j; mobile-first development; the AppCode IDE for Apple’s Objective-C; the Graphite realtime graphing tool for creating dashboards; Clojure and Scala for programming.
…continue reading ThoughtWorks bemoans excessive software complexity, advocates small, focused services
By tim, on October 4th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe’s Create the Web world tour – which came to London yesterday – is in the public unveiling of of Adobe’s new wave of tools, the first since it turned away from Flash and towards open web standard, hardly a year ago.
Michael Chaize is a developer evangelist at Adobe. I asked him when
…continue reading How Adobe turned on a pin to embrace the web (and Google)
By tim, on September 27th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has published a mission statement which is worth a read if only to demonstrate how far the company has moved away from Flash, once positioned at the heart of its ecosystem – remember the Flash Platform?
The mission statement essentially declares the web as the new heart of Adobe’s platform and it is working
…continue reading Adobe using Google Chromium Embedded Framework for Edge tools
By tim, on September 25th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterIt is less than a year ago that Adobe pivoted wholeheartedly from Flash to HTML, a moment that to mind was marked by the acquisition of Nitobi, the PhoneGap company, announced at MAX in October 2011.
Yesterday Adobe clarified its plans for its new wave of web design tools branded Edge. These are as follows:
…continue reading Adobe Creating the Web, offers Edge animation tool for free
By tim, on September 21st, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterNo time to blog in detail about this; but developers with any interest in Windows 8 should check out Project Austin, a sample project for Windows 8 whose quality exceeds most of what is currently available in the Windows Store.
This is a simple note-taking app but beautifully rendered and with support for adding photos,
…continue reading Microsoft Project Austin: superb C++ code sample for Windows 8
By tim, on September 8th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe’s Roy Fielding, who is also the original author of the W3C’s Tracking Preference Expression draft, has patched Apache, the open source web server, to ignore the Do Not Track header sent by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, the browser in Windows 8:
Under the heading “Apache does not tolerate deliberate abuse of open standards,”
…continue reading Adobe’s Roy Fielding patches Apache to ignore IE10 Do Not Track privacy request
By tim, on August 9th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterNokia has sold its Qt business to Helskinki-based Digia. According to the press release the sales includes:
… all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. These include product development, as well as the commercial and open source licensing and service business. Following the acquisition, Digia plans to quickly enable Qt on Android, iOS
…continue reading Nokia sells Qt cross-platform software framework to Digia
By tim, on August 9th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterSteam maker Valve has announced that it is expanding beyond games, to sell software titles that “range from creativity to productivity”.
The Steam software is more than just a store. The platform handles updates, digital rights management, and supports multiplayer gaming. It also forms a chat network. The Steam overlay lets users access Steam
…continue reading Valve announces Steam-powered apps beyond games as well as embracing Linux
By tim, on July 24th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterOn Adobe’s Tools and Services page there is an intriguing remark about the company’s plans for a code editor. “We think there’s a need for a different type of code editor – we’re working on something and will have more to share soon.”
That something is Brackets, a code editor written in HTML and
…continue reading Adobe Brackets: a different type of HTML and JavaScript code editor. Interview with Adobe’s Adam Lehman.
By tim, on June 29th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterA new version of SQLite is in preparation. If you are not a developer, you might not have heard of SQLite, but you have almost certainly used it. It is built into Mac OS X and numerous web browsers, used by many applications which run on Adobe’s Flash runtime, and is the obvious choice if
…continue reading Updating the world’s most widely deployed SQL database engine: welcome to SQLite 4
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