Adobe’s Falcon JS: Compile Flex code to HTML and Javascript

By tim, on November 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has issued further information about its intention to donate the Flex SDK, which builds Flash applications from XML and ActionScript, to the Apache Software Foundation. Specifically, the donation will include:

BlazeDS, the free version of LiveCycle Data Services Falcon, the new Flex compiler due to be completed in 2012 Falcon JS, a previously

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PCs down, Android up: astonishing figures from Gartner show shift to mobile

By tim, on November 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Want to know why Apple is suing Samsung over Android, or why Microsoft is re-imagining Windows as a touch-friendly mobile OS? Look no further than Gartner’s latest report on European and worldwide sales in the third quarter of 2011.

First, this release shows PC sales in Western Europe, not helped by HP’s dithering over

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Adobe favours HTML over Flex, retreats from its enterprise app platform

By tim, on November 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has stated that Flex, the xml-based language for developing applications that run on the Flash runtime (also known as AIR) will gradually give way to HTML 5:

In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development. We also know that, currently, Flex has clear benefits for large-scale

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GPU programming coming to low-power and mobile devices – from EU Mont Blanc supercomputer to smartphones

By tim, on November 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Supercomputing and low-power computing are not normally associated; but at the SC11 Supercomputing conference the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has announced a new supercomputer, called the called the Mont-Blanc Project, which will combine the ARM-based NVIDIA Tegra SoC with separate CUDA GPUs. CUDA is NVIDIA’s parallel computing architecture, enabling general purpose computing on the

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New OpenACC compiler directives announced for GPU accelerated programming

By tim, on November 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A new standard for accelerating C/C++ programming with compiler directives has been announced at the SC11 Supercomputing conference in Seattle. The new standard is called OpenACC and has been created by NVIDIA, Cray, PGI (Portland Group) and CAPS enterprise.

OpenACC compiler directives are code annotations that enable the compiler to parallelise code while ensuring

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Developing for Windows Phone: what’s new

By tim, on November 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

One thing that is easy to overlook in all the talk about Windows Phone, Nokia, and Microsoft’s prospects against iPhone and Android, is that the Windows Phone developer platform has substantially improved with the 7.1 SDK – the phone is 7.5 but the SDK is 7.1, just to confuse you.

Here are a few

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Google App Inventor not dead, MIT to offer public service in 2012

By tim, on November 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google’s App Inventor is a visual and mostly browser-hosted development environment for Android. There is a design tool:

and a "Blocks Editor” which lets you create program logic using visual blocks:

App Inventor is a great concept but in practice most developers find it easier to use more traditional tools to code

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What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with

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Adobe “shifting its business model”: more publishing, less programming

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced a shift in its business strategy, together with the loss of around 750 employees.

So what is changing? Adobe says it will be focusing on digital media and digital marketing, while investing less in “certain enterprise solution product lines.” In line with this strategy, Adobe acquired video advertising company auditude last

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