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NVIDIA’s Visual Computing Appliance: high-end virtual graphics power on tap

By tim, on March 20th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has announced the Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA). Install one of these, and users anywhere on the network can run graphically-demanding applications on their Mac, PC or tablet. The Grid VCA is based on remote graphics technology announced at last year’s GPU Technology Conference. This year’s event is currently under way

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Intel Xeon Phi shines vs NVidia GPU accelerators in Ohio State University tests

By tim, on March 18th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Which is better for massively parallel computing, a GPU accelerator board from NVidia, or Intel’s new Xeon Phi? On the eve of NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference comes a paper which Intel will enjoy. Erik Sauley, Kamer Kayay, and Umit V. C atalyurek from the Ohio State University have issued a paper with performance comparisons between

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Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review

By tim, on December 31st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

What happened in 2012?

Windows 8

Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating

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Embarcadero launches C++ Builder XE3: first built on Clang

By tim, on December 10th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Embarcadero has released C++ Builder XE3, the first version built on the open source clang front end for the LLVM compiler. This has enabled the product to support many new features, including extensive C++ 11 support and a 64-bit compiler.

While it is a shame that the old Borland C/C++ Compiler is no more,

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Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO

By tim, on November 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO at Infragistics, maker of components for Windows, web and mobile development platforms. Windows developers with long memories will remember Sheridan software, who created products including Data Widgets and VBAssist. Infragistics was formed in 2000 when Sheridan merged with another company, ProtoView.

In other words, this is a company

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Visual Studio 2012 gets Windows XP targeting, Team Foundation Server fixes

By tim, on November 27th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released Update 1 for Visual Studio 2012. New in this update is the ability to target Windows XP with C++ applications. Brian Harry has a list of what has changed here, based on the preview from a month ago.

There are many updates and fixes for Team Foundation Server (TFS), including

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ThoughtWorks bemoans excessive software complexity, advocates small, focused services

By tim, on October 22nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

ThoughtWorks 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.

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Delphi XE3 Professional downgraded to local databases only

By tim, on August 29th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a bit of a stir in the Embarcadero community following the leaking of a document which appears to be an email to partners concerning a major change in the EULA (End User Licence Agreement) for the Professional edition of Delphi, the RAD development tool for Windows (with lately some cross-platform capability).

This email

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Offline web mail in new Office 365 and Exchange 2013 Outlook Web Access

By tim, on July 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted details of the forthcoming Exchange 2013, and one of the features that intrigues me is the ability to use the browser-based email client, Outlook Web Access (OWA), offline.

Since offline use is one of the primary issues with web applications, this is a key feature. It would be particularly interesting if it

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Updating the world’s most widely deployed SQL database engine: welcome to SQLite 4

By tim, on June 29th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

A 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

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