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The LG Viewty is a camera phone with a differnce. The UI is built with Adobe's Flash, the camera is half-decent, and it plays DivX videos. Does that make it a good buy? Read this review.
Scott Guthrie is a General Manager at Microsoft, responsible for most of the development teams working on .NET. In this interview, he talks about LINQ, new features in ASP.NET, and Silverlight, promising cross-platform compatibility on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Microsoft is seeking ISO standardisation for its XML Office document format, but running into opposition from advocates of the rival Open Document Format. This interview with Jean Paoli, General manager for interoperability and Office Open XML architecture at Microsoft, covers the rationale for ISO standardisation and reflects on the implications of its success or failure.
Microsoft is taking its next-generation user interface cross-platform, with a new runtime that lets .NET and XAML run on the Mac and elsewhere. Tim Anderson talks to Forest Key, Director of Developer Tools Product Management at Microsoft.
Tim Anderson reports on a press briefing with Barney Wragg of Universal Music and Michael Bornhäuser of DRM provider SDC. On the agenda: Subscription vs individual download, Apple, and rogue download site allofmp3.com.
SQL Server 2005 includes deep XML integration, including a native, indexed XML datatype along with commands that accept or return XML. Tim Anderson interviews Dr Michael Rys about the thinking behind the new features along with guidance on when to use them.
Mono is the open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET. Tim Anderson interviews project leader Miguel de Icaza, asking why Mono is now partnering with Mainsoft to ease migration to J2EE.
Visual Basic was the most popular programming language in the world, yet Microsoft froze its development in favour of a new and different VB. Here's why.
On February 28th 2005, Borland became a Strategic Developer in the Eclipse Foundation. What are the implications for JBuilder, Borland's Java IDE? Tim Anderson gives his view, based on a recent interview with Raaj Shinde, Vice President product strategy and architecture at Borland’s Together business unit
Evaluating the memory usage of a Windows application - many developers are surprised at the high mem usage figures Task Manager reports for their .NET application. But is Task Manager giving useful information?
An interview with Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of CollabNet, closely involved with Apache, and a leading member of the open source movement.
Check out this detailed review of the high-end iPod photo, Apple's market-leading portable music player.
Sqlite is a small, fast and free database library. This is a simple wrapper for Delphi 7, including access to some of the new features in Sqlite 3.
An earlier review of iRiver's H140 MP3 player has been one of the most visited pages on this site. Here now is a review of the more recent H320 / H340 series, together with some thoughts on what it takes to make a successful portable music device in today's market.
Subversion is a popular open-source version control system. Here's my review of the official handbook together with some comments about my own early experience installing and using Subversion itself.
Talking about SDO, Borland's chief scientist Danny Thorpe said "..It's big. Big work. Big risk. Big reward." But what is SDO, and what does this mean for popular tools like JBuilder and Delphi? Tim Anderson quizzes CEO and President Dale Fuller and Nigel Brown, Vice President and General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Wondering whether to jump to .NET? This forum is dedicated to discussing the pros and cons, offering an at-a-glance view of key points with comments from the developer community.
Ted Farrell is Architect and Director, Application Development Tools Division at Oracle Corporation. Here he talks about JDeveloper, both the current 10g and future versions. Topics include JDeveloper vs Eclipse, refactoring, MDA, and model-driven development.
An interview with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, about the popular tools platform and Java IDE. I first wrote about Eclipse in July 2002, Of course that article is out-of-date now, but I referred to Eclipse as "a huge shake-up in the Java tools market" and said that "Eclipse has every prospect of becoming the standard Java IDE." Two years on, those comments still look reasonable.
After discovering the limitations in Visual Studio .NET setup projects, here's what happened when I decided to tweak the generated Microsoft Installer file.
I've written a C# book for beginners.
Windows is a good operating system, wrecked by those who exploit it. All is explained here.
Jason Weisser is IBM's VP of Enterprise Integration. I spoke to him about XML web services and the future of WebSphere.
Not a development topic this time - just a personal reflection on the passing of the silver disk.
An introduction to XML, explaining what it is and why it matters. Click here to read.
A brief introduction and reflection on what open source and free software is all about.
Sqlite is a small, fast and free database library written in C. I decided to investigate using it as a cross-platform database libary with .Net and Java on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Here's how I got on, including downloads.
Borland's CEO Dale Fuller and Chief Technology Officer Blake Stone answer questions about JBuilder, Microsoft .Net, Delphi, Linux and more. Read it here.
Tablet PC will take off. Here's why.
An in-depth interview with Microsoft product manager Euan Garden. Click here to read.
A whistlestop tour, combining history, opinion, technical introduction, and even a few predictions. Read it here.
Macromedia Software Architect Edwin Smith talks about design decisions behind these new server-side products, how to survive in the J2EE market, and how ColdFusion might one day run on .Net. Click here to read it.
A powerful .Net control that supports display and edit of HTML text. Also demonstrates advanced COM interop. Download it here.
Democratically elected by a committee of one, here's ITWriting XBox game of the year 2004.
A musical legend in concert November 2005
