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Adobe has announced that from August 1 2012, developers who make use of hardware-accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player, in combination with Domain Memory, will pay a 9% net revenue share as royalty. Net revenue is what remains after taxes, payment processing fees and “social network platform fees” (sounds like Facebook) are deducted. “Domain Memory” …continue reading Adobe will charge a royalty for use of “Premium features” in Flash Player It is fascinating to watch the Metro-fication of all things Microsoft, from the Xbox 360 user interface to Windows Phone to Windows 8 to forthcoming versions of Office and other applications. Future versions of Dynamics products were previewed at the Convergence 2012 event (which included a session called CRM goes Metro) and there are …continue reading Developers: will you do Metro? Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 is released next month and available to download now (I am not sure what the distinction is). I have a high regard for Microsoft’s database server; it seems to me that the team mostly gets it right. The product has become somewhat diffuse though, especially as the Business Intelligence aspect …continue reading What’s new in SQL Server 2012? The hot cross-platform mobile toolkit PhoneGap was created by Nitobi, a company acquired by Adobe last year. Almost at the same time, the project was submitted to Apache as an open source project. However, the Apache project is not called PhoneGap; it was briefly known as Callback and is now called Cordova (the name …continue reading PhoneGap is Adobe, Cordova is Apache QCon London ended yesterday. It was the biggest London QCon yet, with around 1200 developers and a certain amount of room chaos, but still a friendly atmosphere and a great opportunity to catch up with developers, vendors, and industry trends. Microsoft was near-invisible at QCon. There was a sparsely attended Azure session, mainly I …continue reading Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012 I am in London for the QCon event, a vendor-neutral development conference which I have been fortunate to attend regularly over the last few years. These events tend to have an underlying theme, which reflects the current thinking of developers and software architects. Each year I hear cogent and thoughtful explanations of why …continue reading The most enduring software development techniques revealed at QCon London During Mobile World Congress I met with some folk from Twilio, the cloud telephony company, who said something that interested me. Twilio uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its infrastructure and told me that essentially there is no choice, AWS is the only cloud provider which can scale on demand quickly and smoothly as …continue reading How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service |
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