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Adobe has announced that from August 1 2012, developers who make use of hardware-accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player, in combination with Domain Memory, will pay a 9% net revenue share as royalty. Net revenue is what remains after taxes, payment processing fees and “social network platform fees” (sounds like Facebook) are deducted. “Domain Memory” is …continue reading Adobe will charge a royalty for use of “Premium features” in Flash Player Microsoft has released two further ASP.NET frameworks as open source, joining ASP.NET MVC which was already open source. These are published on CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source repository site, using the newly added Git support. You can find the code here. The two additional frameworks are ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages. Just to recap, …continue reading Microsoft open sources further ASP.NET Frameworks, publishes code with Git It is fascinating to watch the Metro-fication of all things Microsoft, from the Xbox 360 user interface to Windows Phone to Windows 8 to forthcoming versions of Office and other applications. Future versions of Dynamics products were previewed at the Convergence 2012 event (which included a session called CRM goes Metro) and there are a …continue reading Developers: will you do Metro? Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 is released next month and available to download now (I am not sure what the distinction is). I have a high regard for Microsoft’s database server; it seems to me that the team mostly gets it right. The product has become somewhat diffuse though, especially as the Business Intelligence aspect has …continue reading What’s new in SQL Server 2012? The hot cross-platform mobile toolkit PhoneGap was created by Nitobi, a company acquired by Adobe last year. Almost at the same time, the project was submitted to Apache as an open source project. However, the Apache project is not called PhoneGap; it was briefly known as Callback and is now called Cordova (the name of …continue reading PhoneGap is Adobe, Cordova is Apache I am a fan of Wordament for Windows Phone and Windows 8. This is a Metro-style app. I was annoyed though to discover that it was broken on my Windows 8 slate. That is, it could not be launched because it did not exist when searching the Start menu, nor in the “All apps view”, …continue reading Fixing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 Consumer Preview I am getting started with the Windows Server 8 beta and noticed this in the list of Features Removed: The Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is deprecated. If you use the SUA POSIX subsystem with this release, use Hyper-V to virtualize the server. If you use the tools provided by SUA, switch to Cygwin or …continue reading Microsoft deprecates Subsystem for UNIX, recommends open source instead Microsoft will have expected some users to find the transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 challenging, but I doubt it was ready for the reaction from its own community that it is receiving for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The best place to start is the comments on Building Windows blog here and here …continue reading Crisis in Microsoft land: what next after the mixed reception for Windows 8 Consumer Preview? QCon London ended yesterday. It was the biggest London QCon yet, with around 1200 developers and a certain amount of room chaos, but still a friendly atmosphere and a great opportunity to catch up with developers, vendors, and industry trends. Microsoft was near-invisible at QCon. There was a sparsely attended Azure session, mainly I would …continue reading Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012 I am in London for the QCon event, a vendor-neutral development conference which I have been fortunate to attend regularly over the last few years. These events tend to have an underlying theme, which reflects the current thinking of developers and software architects. Each year I hear cogent and thoughtful explanations of why this …continue reading The most enduring software development techniques revealed at QCon London |
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