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Embarcadero All-access: a better way to deploy developer tools?

By tim, on March 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I have a call lined up with Embarcadero today, and wanted to catch up with their latest tools. It reminded me of something I’d intended to post about for some time, the Embarcadero All-Access system which allows no-touch install of many of its tools. Here is how it works. First, you run the All-Access client:

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Sony locks down the PS3 – removes Other OS support from all models

By tim, on March 29th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Sony is removing the ability to install an alternative operating system such as Linux on the Playstation 3. In a blog post, Sony’s Charlotte Panther says:

PS3 Firmware 3.21 will be available this Thursday. It will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models,

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Building for multiple mobile platforms with one codebase

By tim, on March 29th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Individuals may have strong opinions about the merits of Apple iPhone versus Google Android versus the struggling Palm WebOS versus the not-yet Windows Phone 7; but sit them round a table to discuss app strategy and those diverse platforms change from a debating point to a problem. Presuming a web app won’t cut it, how

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Bill Buxton, Windows Phone 7 hits at Mix10, say attendees

By tim, on March 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I recall seeing conversations on Twitter about whether it is worth going to conferences, especially vendor-led ones such as Microsoft’s Mix10 which took place earlier this month. It’s expensive, it’s marketing, and many of the sessions are available for free online soon after they take place.

In that context it’s interesting to see some off-the-cuff

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Adobe news: Flash Builder 4, Creative Suite 5, quarterly results

By tim, on March 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Lots of Adobe news this week.

First, the release of Flash Builder 4. It seems a long time ago that I was looking at the first preview of code-name Gumbo; it’s good to see this finally released. Since it is Eclipse-based, it looks similar to to Flex Builder 3.0; but under the covers there is

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UK government’s open source commitment words not deeds says Ingres VP

By tim, on March 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke today about the government’s IT strategy, including a mention for how open source technology can reduce costs:

… we will unleash data and content to the community to turn into applications that meet genuine needs. This does not require large-scale government IT Infrastructure; the ‘open source’ technology that will

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Google’s privacy campaign, and three ways in which Google gets your data

By tim, on March 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google is campaigning to reassure us that its Chrome browser is, well, no worse at recording your every move on the web than any other browser.

Using Chrome doesn’t mean sharing more information with Google than using any other browser

says a spokesman in this video, part of a series on Google Chrome & Privacy.

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Windows Phone 7 emulator yields its secrets

By tim, on March 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

So that didn’t take long. Microsoft has made a Windows Phone 7 emulator available to all, explaining that it is a virtual machine running the real device OS. While it works fine for debugging applications, most of the phone UI is mysteriously absent, the exception being Internet Explorer (needed for testing web applications). However, Dan

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Visual Studio software factories to emerge from Microsoft deep freeze

By tim, on March 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Last night at the Microsoft Mix party in Las Vegas I happened across Michael Lehman, a senior architect, who told me he had been working for the last six years on a Visual Studio add-on called Feature Builder. This turns out to be the evolution of the very same project which Microsoft’s Jack Greenfield told

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Microsoft playing HTML 5 standards game alongside Silverlight game

By tim, on March 16th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at Mix10 in Las Vegas where Microsoft has been showing off the latest preview of IE9 – you can try it here, provided you have Vista SP2, Windows 2008 or Windows 7.

The two themes are performance, with GPU-accelerated HTML and graphics and a new Javascript engine that compiles code in the background, and

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