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By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has defended the role of Silverlight in the HTML 5 era. Arguing that it is natural for HTML to acquire some of the features previously provided by plug-ins – “because some of these features are so pervasive on the web that they are seen
…continue reading Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role
By tim, on September 1st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve successfully installed Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (including Delphi). I’m running Windows 7 64-bit. On first quitting RAD Studio (which is still called bds.exe – it stands for Borland Development Studio) I got this message:
Fortunately I know exactly what this means. Read here for my earlier explanation. And if I go
…continue reading Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7
By tim, on August 26th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterDeveloping for iPhone is a hot topic. Many developers are not only having to learn Apple’s Objective C and the Cocoa application framework, but are also new to mobile development. It is a big shift. Josh Clark is a iPhone designer, and his book Tapworthy is about how to design apps that people will
…continue reading Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterSapphireSteel Software is poised to release Amethyst, which lets you develop Flash and Flex applications with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 or 2010.
Why bother? There’s two aspects to this. One is simply the comfort factor: if you are a .NET developer used to Visual Studio, but now working on Flash or Flex, this could
…continue reading Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI had a chat with Jay Schmelzer and Doug Seven from the Visual Studio LightSwitch team. I asked about the release date – no news yet.
What else? Well, Schmelzer and Seven had read my earlier blog post so we discussed some of the things I speculated about. Windows Phone 7? Won’t be in
…continue reading Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?
By tim, on August 24th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has announced a new edition of Visual Studio called LightSwitch, now available in beta, and it is among the most interesting development tools I’ve seen. That does not mean it will succeed; if anything it is too radical and might fail for that reason, though it deserves better. Here’s some of the things
…continue reading Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
By tim, on August 23rd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterA comment here points me to this comparison by Decebal Mihailescu of start-up times for processes on Windows using different runtimes: .NET in several versions, Java 1.6, Mono 2.6.4, and Visual C++ 2010 (native code).
It is notable that native code is much faster than the runtimes, and that .NET is ahead
…continue reading Measuring start-up time for .NET, Java, C++
By tim, on August 4th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has released the fourth platform preview for Internet Explorer 9, which you can download here. This is the last preview before the beta release, expected in September.
When IE9 was first previewed, back in March, it scored only 55% on the Acid3 standards test – well ahead of IE8 which scores around 20%,
…continue reading Internet Explorer 9 Preview gets to 95% on Acid 3
By tim, on August 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterThis should be three blog posts; but you’ve read this news elsewhere. Still, I can’t resist a brief comment on three recent trends.
Browsers
The first is that usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has levelled off after a long period of decline. Microsoft says it is increasing but the numbers are too small to
…continue reading Stats that matter: Android grows in mobile, IE stops declining, eBooks take off
By tim, on August 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe’s Duane Nickull has an illuminating post on how the Flash player handles REST. Nickull is responding to a post by Malcolm Box in which he complains how hard it is to use Flash with a REST web service. Box observes that Flash cannot send POST, PUT and DELETE requests when running in the
…continue reading SOA, REST and Flash/Flex – why Flash does not PUT
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