PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud

By tim, on January 12th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Zend, a company which specialises in PHP frameworks and tools, has released the results of a developer survey from November 2011.

The survey attracted 3,335 respondents drawn, it says, from “enterprise, SMB and independent developers worldwide.” I have a quibble with this, since I believe the survey should state that these were PHP

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January 12th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: cloud computing, development, microsoft, php, professional, software development, zend | One comment

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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November 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: apple, development, internet, microsoft, professional, Web, web authoring, windows | 4 comments

Which Microsoft cloud? Windows Server 8 shows Azure is not everything

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

I was fortunate to attend a two-day drilldown into what is coming in Windows Server 8 last week, just before the BUILD conference under way in Anaheim, California. It is an impressive release, with two things standing out for me.

One is that Microsoft has successfully re-engineered Windows Server so that it is

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September 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: azure, cloud computing, microsoft, professional | Leave a comment

Amazon entices Android developers with $50 incentive

By tim, on September 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon is offering Android developers $50 of AWS (Amazon Web Services) credit if they submit an app to the Amazon Android app store.

Although the announcement refers to apps that actually make use of AWS, this does not seem to be a pre-condition:

September 7 – November 15: Android developers who submit an app

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September 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: amazon, apple, cloud computing, mobile, multimedia, software development | One comment

Google gets serious about App Engine, ups prices

By tim, on September 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google App Engine will be leaving preview status and becoming more expensive in the second half of September, according to an email sent to App Engine administrators:

We are updating our policies, pricing and support model to reflect its status as a fully supported Google product … almost all applications will be billed more

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September 1st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: cloud computing, google, professional, software development | Leave a comment

Would you consider running PHP on Azure? Microsoft faces uphill battle to convince customers.

By tim, on May 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft announced Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0, an update to its open source SDK for PHP on Windows Azure. The SDK wraps Azure storage, diagnostics and management services with a PHP API.

Microsoft has been working for years on making IIS a good platform for PHP. FastCGI for IIS was introduced

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May 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: .net, cloud computing, microsoft, open source, php, professional, software development, web authoring, windows | One comment

Implications of Amazon’s cloud failure

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

Amazon is into day three of a major failure of its Elastic Compute Cloud at its North Virginia datacenter, and at the time of writing it is still not fully recovered.

I am reminded of a prescient remark by Tony Lucas at Flexiant, a UK cloud provider, who told me a couple of

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April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: amazon, cloud computing, professional, systems | One comment

Five years of Amazon Web Services

By tim, on April 6th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon introduced its Simple Storage Service in March 2006. S3 was not the first of the Amazon Web Services (AWS); they were originally developed for affiliates who needed programmatic access to the Amazon retail store in order to use its data on third-party web sites. That said, there is a profound difference between a

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April 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: amazon, cloud computing, professional, software development | One comment

What will it take to get developers to try Windows Azure? Microsoft improves its trial offer

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

Microsoft has announced an improved introductory trial for Windows Azure. You can now get:

750 hours of an Extra Small Compute Instance 25 hours of a Small Compute Instance 500MB storage 10,000 storage transactions 500MB in / 500MB out data transfer 1G Web Edition SQL Azure database

The offer lasts until the end of

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February 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: azure, cloud computing, development, professional | 3 comments

Using HTML 5 to mitigate locked-down platforms like Apple iOS

By tim, on February 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple has created a beautiful mobile platform; but it has some drawbacks. One was highlighted yesterday, when Apple rejected an app from Sony for reading and purchasing digital books on the device.

According to Apple’s Trudy Miller, as quoted in the New York Times:

We are now requiring that if an app offers

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February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: apple, development, mobile, professional, software development, web authoring | 2 comments
 
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