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By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero has announced Starter Editions for both Delphi XE and C++ Builder XE, rapid development environments for native Windows applications.
These are not toy versions. The main technical difference between the Starter editions and the Professional versions are the absence of UML modelling, Class Explorer and Resource Manager tools. You also miss out on
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By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI have started a new blog over at gadgets.itwriting.com which is for reporting on mobile, audio, gaming and other such enthusiasms. The main reason is to have somewhere to cover these subjects without diluting the focus of itwriting.com itself.
Currently on Gadget Writing:
AVI preparing a successor to the ADM 9.1 – the floorstanding
…continue reading Gadget Writing – iPhone docks, 5.1 headphones, mobile, gaming and more
By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterIt has gradually dawned on me that, contrary to first appearances, the Apple iPhone and iPad do come with a capable application runtime for those who would rather not tangle with Objective C; and one on which you can run applications without the hassle of negotiating the App Store. This runtime is the WebKit-based
…continue reading Mobl: a new language for mobile applications, with Eclipse integration
By tim, on January 28th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft released quarterly results yesterday:
Quarter ending December 31 2010 vs quarter ending December 31 2009, $millions
Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 5054 -2139 3251 -2166 Server and Tools 4390 412 1776 312 Online 691 112 -543 -80 Business (Office) 5126 612 3965 1018 Entertainment and devices 3698 1317 679
…continue reading Server and Tools shine in Microsoft results – so why is Bob Muglia leaving?
By tim, on January 27th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterOracle has announced the discontinuation of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE. The reason? First, to free resources for JDK 7 support; but second (and more significant) – hardly anyone was using it.
There is hardly a shortage of Ruby IDEs. Ones that come to mind are the Eclipse-based Aptana, JetBrains RubyMine, the Visual
…continue reading No more Ruby support in NetBeans – the feature was little used, says Oracle
By tim, on January 25th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI attended an online briefing given by Azure marketing man Prashant Ketkar. He said that Microsoft is planning to migrate its own internal systems to Azure, “causing re-architecture of apps,” and spoke of the high efficiency of the platform. There are thousands of servers being managed by very few people he said – if
…continue reading How is Windows Azure doing? Few mission critical apps says Microsoft
By tim, on January 25th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI was intrigued to discover NS Basic/App Studio, which offers a simple Windows IDE targeting iPhone and Android mobile devices.
It is all a bit retro, especially when you discover that the company (NS Basic Corporation) has the leading Basic on the … Apple Newton.
Still, something like Visual Basic for iPhone and
…continue reading Back to BASIC with NS App Studio for mobile
By tim, on January 21st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI decided to install the open source Alternative PHP Cache on this server in order to improve performance. Interesting exercise. This server runs Debian Linux, and there are several ways to install APC:
1. Install the official package with apt-get install php-apc or similar
2. Install with the PHP Extension Community Library which goes
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By tim, on January 20th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has released Native Extensions for Silverlight, a set of libraries which enable access to Windows 7 features including taskbar Jump Lists; access to attached devices including webcams, cameras and phones; the sensor API for accelerometer support; and even the ability to intercept Windows messages. The ability to intercept Windows messages allows lots of
…continue reading Silverlight native extensions allow deep Windows 7 integration, but forget cross-platform
By tim, on January 19th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAmazon has announced Elastic Beanstalk, which lets you deploy an application to Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and have it scale up or down, by launching or terminating server instances, according to demand. There is no additional cost for using Elastic Beanstalk; you are charged for the instances you use.
Here is a dialog
…continue reading Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk auto-scales your cloud application
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