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Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?

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

Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did.

Dart is a curly-brace

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C++ 11 is approved by ISO: a big day for native code development

By tim, on August 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Herb Sutter reports that C++ 0x, which will be called C++ 11, has been unanimously approved by the ISO C++ committee. The “11” in the name refers to the year of approval, 2011. The current standard is C++ 98, though amended as C++ 03, so it has taken 8 or 13 years to update it

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The strategy behind Mono has shifted: ten years of open source .NET

By tim, on July 19th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday, SUSE and Xamarin announced, in effect, the transfer of all things Mono to Xamarin.

The agreement grants Xamarin a broad, perpetual license to all intellectual property covering Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android and Mono Tools for Visual Studio. Xamarin will also provide technical support to SUSE customers using Mono-based products, and assume stewardship of

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The frustration of developing for Facebook with C#

By tim, on July 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am researching a piece on developing for Facebook with Microsoft Azure, and of course the first thing I did was to try it out.

It is not easy. The first problem is that Facebook does not care about C#. There are four SDKs on offer: JavaScript, Apple iOS, Google Android, and PHP. This has

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RIM announces Java and Android runtimes for the Playbook, beta of native SDK

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

RIM has announced several new options for developing apps for its PlayBook tablet.

RIM will launch two optional “app players” that provide an application run-time environment for BlackBerry Java® apps and Android v2.3 apps. These new app players will allow users to download BlackBerry Java apps and Android apps from BlackBerry App World and run

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Computer book stats show resilience of Java as Android booms

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

Mike Hendrickson at O’Reilly has posted four articles analysing the state of the computer book market in more detail than most of us care about. The overall picture is not too good – sales are down – and there are some interesting trends.

Here is a good one for anyone who thinks Java is

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Trying out MonoTouch – C# for Apple’s iPhone and iPad

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

I’ve posted an article on trying out MonoTouch, which builds on the open source Mono project to provide a means of developing apps for Apple’s iOS using C# and the .NET Framework.

It is easy to assume that since the .NET Framework is Microsoft’s technology, using a non-Microsoft implementation is risky. Then again, Mono is

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How Microsoft’s Office Web Apps were written in C# and compiled to JavaScript, maybe

By tim, on February 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

While researching another product I came across this 2009 tweet from Microsoft’s Nikhil Kothari:

Office 2010 web apps – perhaps one of the most ambitious script# projects!

Script# is loosely equivalent to the Google Web Toolkit, but whereas GWT compiles Java to JavaScript, Script# compiles C# to JavaScript. According to the site:

Script# is used

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What you are saying about the Java crisis

By tim, on November 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

A week or so ago I posted about the Java crisis and what it means for developers. The post attracted attention both here and later on The Guardian web site where it appeared as a technology blog. It was also picked up by Reddit prompting a discussion with over 500 posts.

So what are

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Microsoft lets go of IronPython and IronRuby

By tim, on October 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Visual Studio corporate VP Jason Zander has announced that IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of popular dynamic languages, are to be handed over to the open source community. This includes add-ons that enable development in Visual Studio, IronPython Tools and IronRuby Tools. Of the two, IronPython is a more mature and usable project.

Why? Here’s

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