Oxygene for Java released: develop for Android and Java runtime with Delphi language in Visual Studio

By tim, on November 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

RemObjects has released Oxygene for Java, a new version of its Object Pascal compiler. Object Pascal is pretty much the Delphi language though with some additional features of its own. Previous versions target the .NET runtime, and a version of this is marketed by Embarcadero as Prism. The IDE for Oxygene is Microsoft’s Visual

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Thoughts on the future of the Win32 platform

By tim, on November 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Overheard last week at a non-techy social event: “I have just got an iPad. It is gorgeous. It is amazing how much it can do” … conversation continues … “Trevor is always swearing at his computer. He always blames Microsoft. It doesn’t matter what the problem is, he blames Microsoft.”

This is the kind

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Windows Phone, Exchange, and self-signed certificates

By tim, on November 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am setting up a Nokia Lumia phone, which runs Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”. I am impressed with the smoothness of the setup experience, though I had one slight hassle which I do not blame on Nokia or Microsoft because it is is not typical.

I run an Exchange Server (and SharePoint) for test

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Why developers need a Mac

By tim, on November 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am by no means an Apple fan. For one thing, I find Windows (and Linux) stable and fast, so you are not going to hear me argue that my computing life was transformed once I made that Switch (with a capital letter). Admittedly that is partly because I am familiar with how to

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Sencha’s Michael Mullany talks about Flash developers “flailing around for an alternative” and the Big App Rewrite

By tim, on November 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha, a company which creates HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile browsers. Ext JS is aimed at desktop browser applications, while Sencha Touch is for mobile devices, currently Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry 6+. Sencha’s tools include Ext Designer, a visual application builder for

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Google’s real-time analytics, and why it gives it away

By tim, on November 23rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The free Google Analytics has added a real-time view which is great fun to watch:

Aside from distracting bloggers, is there much value to real-time analytics? I’m not sure there is much advantage but it does demo well.

Why does Google invest so much in giving away analytics? Simple: it gets your data

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HTML5 scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire weak, iOS 5 great, IE10 preview one of the best

By tim, on November 23rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The Sencha blog has a great series of posts on HTML5 support on various devices. This is of direct interest to Sencha because its products are JavaScript and CSS application frameworks, Sencha Touch for mobile and ExtJS for any browser. The latest post is on the Amazon Kindle Fire – and it is weak:

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Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart

By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted an article on Evolving ECMAScript on its IE Blog. ECMAScript is the official standard for what we call JavaScript. The company is proposing some minor additions “to address gaps in Math, String and Number functionality as well as Globalization.” It has also taken the opportunity to take a shot at Google,

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What is the best programming language for a child progressing from Scratch?

By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Someone asked me what is the best programming language for a child to learn after starting (and having success) with Scratch.

Scratch is a visual programming language which actually runs on Smalltalk, though its users do not need to know this. Scratch 2.0 seems to be written in Adobe Flash so you can

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Windows 8 Tablet in June 2012? If so, I am betting ARM not Intel x86

By tim, on November 21st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

An interview with Paul Amsellem, new boss at Nokia France, includes this remark:

Et en juin 2012, nous aurons une tablette fonctionnant sous Windows 8

which even my schoolboy French can translate:

and in June 2012 we will have a tablet running Windows 8

Now, that is sooner than I had expected based

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