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Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?

By tim, on February 21st, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Cross-platform development is a big deal, and will continue to be so until a day comes when everyone uses the same platform. Android? HTML? WebKit? iOS? Windows? Maybe one day, but for now the world is multi-platform, and unless you can afford to ignore all platforms but one, or to develop independent projects for each

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LocationTech: a new Eclipse working group for location technologies

By tim, on February 5th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

The Eclipse Foundation has announced a new working group, called LocationTech.

What is it? There is only one project currently, called LocationTech Technology.

Here is what it covers:

LTT projects provide artifacts such as libraries, user interfaces, and methodology logic that enable location aware applications and services. The nature of this work is scoped as

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NVIDIA Nsight comes to Eclipse for Mac, Linux GPU programming

By tim, on May 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

NVIDIA has ported its Nsight development tools, previously a plug-in for Visual Studio, to run within the open source Eclipse IDE for use on Mac and Linux.

The Nsight tools include profiling, refactoring, syntax highlighting and auto-completion, as well as a bunch of code samples.

The Windows version for Visual Studio has also been

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How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London

By tim, on February 2nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended The Monki Gras in London yesterday, a distinctive developer event arranged by the analyst firm RedMonk.

This was not only a developer event, with the likes of Andre Charland and Dave Johnson from the PhoneGap team at Adobe, Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, and Jason Hoffman with Bryan

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What is the best way to choose a development tool?

By tim, on January 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Research company Evans Data sent me a link this morning to its new Tool Grader service. This is a simple web application for reviewing and rating software tools. The same tool may rated separately rated for different platforms. For example, there is one entry for Eclipse under UNIX/Linux, and another separate one under Tools for

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Eclipse and Xtend: some confusion in getting started

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

Last weekend there was some publicity around Xtend, an Eclipse project which extends Java with new language features. Xtend now has a new landing page, as announced by the lead architect Sven Efftinge.

I did intend to post about this yesterday, but I wanted to see it in action first, so I tried to download

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Android only 23% open says report; Linux, Eclipse win praise

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

Vision Mobile has published a report on what it calls the Open Governance Index. The theory is that if you want to measure the extent to which an open source project is really open, you should look at its governance, rather than focusing on the license under which code is released:

The governance model used

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Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development

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

Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, an IDE built with Aptana, the Eclipse-based IDE which the company acquired in January. It is an interesting products because it lets you build cross-platform mobile apps for Apple iOS, Google Android, and Blackberry, as well as desktop applications.

I downloaded the community edition and gave it a quick try.

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Mobl: a new language for mobile applications, with Eclipse integration

By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

It has gradually dawned on me that, contrary to first appearances, the Apple iPhone and iPad do come with a capable application runtime for those who would rather not tangle with Objective C; and one on which you can run applications without the hassle of negotiating the App Store. This runtime is the WebKit-based browser

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