Running Oracle on Amazon’s cloud

By tim, on September 23rd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon has announced a partnership with Oracle, to run Oracle’s database and middleware products on Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2). Specifically, the products are Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager; and for the OS, Oracle Enterprise Linux. A key feature is that both Amazon and Oracle offer full support for

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Designers, Designers, Designers

By tim, on September 22nd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The last in my little series on design matters.

Technorati tags: design, software development

Adobe AIR runs on Linux

By tim, on September 22nd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

An email from Adobe alerts me to the release of AIR 1.1 for Linux beta, which I installed on my laptop which runs Ubuntu.

Installation is not quite so smooth as on Windows; you have to set execute permissions on the download before running it. It took only a moment though, and I soon

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slotMusic: you say hello, I say goodbye

By tim, on September 22nd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

A new format called slotMusic delivers music as DRM-free MP3 files on a microSD card, with a USB adaptor so you can plug it into any PC.

Hmm, not as convenient as downloads because you have to mess around with fiddly little cards.

If I want to buy music files on a physical medium

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The new power in computing: design-centric development

By tim, on September 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been mulling over the insights from Microsoft’s Remix 08 conference in Brighton, and in particular Bill Buxton’s contention that it was a focus on design that saved Apple, and that a focus on design is the only thing that can save Microsoft.

It is all very well to nod heads and agree that

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Windows 7 screenshots hit the web

By tim, on September 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Windows 7 screenshots are showing up, for example on thinknext.net and windowsvienna.com. Much to see? Well, ribbon UI in WordPad and Paint; a much-enhanced Calculator with Standard, Scientific, Programmer, Statistics and Date Calculation modes; and an IDE, sorry ISE (Integrated Script Environment) for PowerShell.

Presuming these are genuine, they don’t tell us a lot

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Microsoft’s design crisis: Interview from Remix Brighton

By tim, on September 20th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The Reg has posted my interview with Bill Buxton, in which he talks about the challenge of getting Microsoft to put design at the core of its products. It has a great quote where Ballmer apparently told the company conference “Change or we die”. Can Microsoft change? That’s the big question; and one

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A few notes on ASP.NET MVC

By tim, on September 19th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Here at Remix in Brighton Scott Guthrie is presenting on ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller). This is an alternative to web forms, the classic ASP.NET programming model.

What is ASP.NET MVC better for? Here are the things that Guthrie highlights:

Clean code separation presentation/logic Clean URLS, SEO and REST friendly. For example, URLS like:

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Bill Buxton at Remix Brighton

By tim, on September 18th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Bill Buxton has made a considerable impression here at Remix. His theme is the critical importance of design, and he has a broad understanding of what design is that goes beyond what some developers may imagine: “here’s my app, now make it look good” would be the caricature. I Twittered his session – you

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Silverlight: 1.5 million installations per day, says Microsoft

By tim, on September 18th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP Developer Division at Microsoft, spoke at Remix in Brighton about Silverlight deployment. He says there are around 1.5 million installations per day, and that version 1.0 will auto-update to version 2.0 when it is released, which he says is “shortly”.

Wide deployment is critical for Silverlight, though a limitation of

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