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Whomever called JavaScript the assembly language of the web was a true prophet. Compiling .Net code to JavaScript is not new. I have heard that Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, browser-hosted editing of Office documents, are built with Script#. The difference with JSIL is that it compiles .NET Intermediate Language (IL), and therefore works …continue reading Convert .NET Intermediate Language to JavaScript A recent and thorough piece on Visual Studio LightSwitch prompted a Twitter discussion on what kind of future the product has. Background: LightSwitch is an application generator which builds data-driven applications. A LightSwitch application uses ASP.NET on the server and Silverlight on the client. LightSwitch applications can be deployed to Windows Azure LightSwitch apps …continue reading Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch: does it have a future? I am surprised this post by Microsoft Program Manger Jeffrey Sutherland has not attracted more attention. It describes enterprise app deployment to Windows on ARM devices, now officially called Windows RT devices. These devices run Windows 8 compiled for ARM, which means high efficiency but a greater degree of lockdown than with x86. In …continue reading Microsoft re-imagining client computer management for Windows 8 I am looking forward to trying out Adobe’s new Creative Suite 6 but have not yet got my hands on it. However one thing I am watching with interest is the work Adobe is doing to integrate PhoneGap developing into the suite, in particular in Dreamweaver. PhoneGap lets you build native mobile apps for …continue reading Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, PhoneGap Build, and HTML5 app tooling Adobe has launched though not quite released its Creative Cloud. The name is slightly misleading since Adobe’s main business is in desktop applications and the “Creative Cloud” is as much or more a subscription model for desktop applications as it is a set of cloud services. In its discussions with financial analysts at the …continue reading What’s in Adobe’s Creative Cloud, and should you go cloud or purchase outright? Adobe has just announced Creative Suite 6. CS 5.5 used the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro, which takes advantage of NVIDIA’s CUDA library in order to accelerate processing when an NVIDIA GPU is present. Just to be clear, this is not just graphics acceleration, but programming the GPU to take advantage of its …continue reading Adobe turns to OpenCL rather than NVIDIA CUDA for Mercury Graphics Engine in Creative Suite 6 A quick comment on Nokia’s dismal results for the first quarter of 2012. Sales are down 26% quarter on quarter; Smartphone sales down 38% despite the introduction of the Lumia Windows Phone in Europe. Negative operating margin, heavy losses. The reasons given? competitive industry dynamics continuing to negatively affect the Smart Devices and Mobile …continue reading Nokia Lumia strategy needs time, may not have it Microsoft has published its latest financials. Here is my at-a-glance summary: Quarter ending March 31st 2012 vs quarter ending March 31st 2011, $millions Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 4624 +177 2952 +160 Server and Tools 4572 +386 1738 +285 Online 707 +40 -479 +297 Business (Office) 5814 +485 3770 +457 …continue reading Microsoft results: old business model still humming, future a concern Long-time readers of this site may remember that I did some work on embedding Internet Explorer, and its core rendering component MSHTML, in .NET applications. The code is still online. I noticed that it does not work properly in Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Specifically, plain HTML works but you can no longer apply external …continue reading A bug in embedded Internet Explorer in Windows 8 |
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