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Some have declared the mobile OS battle over, won by Apple and Google Android between them. Microsoft and RIM Blackberry will fight it out for third and fourth place. Maybe, but I doubt it will be so simple. There are not one, not two, but three further open source mobile operating systems which have significant …continue reading Not just a four-horse race: three new mobile operating systems joining the fray 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 …continue reading LocationTech: a new Eclipse working group for location technologies Google has revised the terms of the Android SDK license agreement so that users must now agree not to fragment Android by deriving other SDKs from Google’s official offering. In fact, you now have to agree not to fragment Android in any way as a condition of using the Android SDK. The key clauses …continue reading Google fights Android fragmentation with new SDK terms Adobe’s Roy Fielding, who is also the original author of the W3C’s Tracking Preference Expression draft, has patched Apache, the open source web server, to ignore the Do Not Track header sent by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, the browser in Windows 8: Under the heading “Apache does not tolerate deliberate abuse of open standards,” …continue reading Adobe’s Roy Fielding patches Apache to ignore IE10 Do Not Track privacy request On Adobe’s Tools and Services page there is an intriguing remark about the company’s plans for a code editor. “We think there’s a need for a different type of code editor – we’re working on something and will have more to share soon.” That something is Brackets, a code editor written in HTML and …continue reading Adobe Brackets: a different type of HTML and JavaScript code editor. Interview with Adobe’s Adam Lehman. 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 …continue reading How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats: Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I would …continue reading Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next Adobe’s Damon Cooper, who runs the BlazeDS and Data Services team at Adobe, has posted about BlazeDS vs the paid-for Data Services. It is a curious post, in that he simultaneously highlights new features coming in Data Services 4.6 while also giving a number of reasons not to use BlazeDS. BlazeDS is the free and …continue reading Adobe: no new features for open source BlazeDS data services At Microsoft BUILD earlier this month I arrived early to hear Anders Hejlsberg talk about the future of C#, and found myself next to Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the GNOME desktop and of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft .NET. I took the opportunity to ask a few questions, which I have his …continue reading Miguel de Icaza talks about Windows 8 and the failure of Linux on the desktop |
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