Chicken soup for the software programmer’s soul
Blog Fans of the inspirational “Chicken Soup” series will already know that these feel-good-factor books are designed to provide the same soulful uplift that a bowl of comforting broth brings us on a... [05 Sep 2008]
Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
News Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology [05 Sep 2008]
Twitter ye not: is it a worthy developer zone?
Blog I know plenty of people have blogged on Twitter already, so I’ll try and keep this fresh. I’ve only been a member for a month now and have been trying to assess whether it is a useful ground to... [04 Sep 2008]
Oracle is not the only database
Blog DataDirect’s latest Connect 4.0 database drivers for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) have been released in a new standard format that the company says will support application failover in any... [01 Sep 2008]
Google rewards Android app developers
News Winners of the Android Developer Challenge shared prizes worth a total of $3.75m, with location-aware applications scooping the big prizes [01 Sep 2008]
Is software development international?
Blog A quick glance across the developer agenda for the next couple of months sees a number of our industry favourites hosting the European versions of some of the events and meetings that have been... [29 Aug 2008]
Smile like you mean it: developing for the commercial web 2....
Blog I’m off to Brighton next month to attend a web development symposium with a large software company famous for producing a popular operating system beginning with W. ' This is good news as far... [28 Aug 2008]
Gestural interfaces for futuristic applications need standar...
Blog With PDC on the rapidly approaching horizon there is already talk of ‘how to prepare for the development road ahead’ – and discussion around ‘Oslo’, Microsoft’s “family” of technologies for... [26 Aug 2008]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Here’s a bit of software application development scrabble for you to serve as Friday down time. Hopefully this comes with enough of a thought-provoking nudge that you might even like to play. '... [21 Aug 2008]
Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps
News At IDF, the company announced a suite of tools to help developers engage in parallel coding, for a future where every machine is multicore [21 Aug 2008]
Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
News The Linux project lead has said new contributors should 'start small' to avoid becoming frustrated with the Linux kernel development process [18 Aug 2008]
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud – computing structure
Blog Two’s a crowd on the cloud by all accounts – well it is if you want security and backup functionality out of your apps; they just don’t fit on right now. Current postulating and pontificating as to... [17 Aug 2008]
How to survive Linux coding
Blog The Linux Foundation published a guide for new Linux coders on how to navigate through the processes involved, which I wrote an article about. The man who wrote the guide is Linux developer and... [15 Aug 2008]
Linux kernel developer's guide published
News The Linux Foundation has released the guide for developers in an attempt to encourage participation by new programmers by explaining what's involved [15 Aug 2008]
Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit
News The firm has released the code for its lightweight user interface toolkit under a modified GPLv2 licence, in what it says was response to developer demand [15 Aug 2008]
Get your Shoes on and go dance with code
Blog It's not often you get to hear about a programming language, download it and write your first application before breakfast. Yet the toast is still warm in the toaster, and I'm looking at a ZDNet UK... [15 Aug 2008]
Car Crash Software
Blog There’s no such thing as a free software lunch is there? No I’m not talking about freeware or even shareware, but quality. We’re told in every other walk of life that we are what we eat and you get... [13 Aug 2008]
Flash, HTML, Ajax vie for victory in web-app war
Analysis Web applications are getting richer and more widespread, but it's unclear which of several competing technologies will power them [12 Aug 2008]
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 S...
Blog Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Microsoft is feeding us these coding condiments not... [11 Aug 2008]
No single IT vendor is “unique”
Blog Don’t you just hate that when IT vendors try and tell you that they have a ‘unique’ technology proposition? My first editorial tuition came from a chap called Andy Drew and he drilled it into me... [10 Aug 2008]
