Corner-shop Software Cornerstones
Blog Somewhere around a decade ago when Compaq’s arguably most-revered CEO Mr Eckhard Pfeiffer left his tenure at the helm of that particular ship, I joined him and left my role in the Middle East where... [09 Jan 2009]
Should mobile developers look East for ARPU inspiration?
Blog It’s a couple of years now since I got the chance to write for a well-known international newspaper on how the ever-changing telecoms market was going to throw up a new batch of opportunities for... [07 Jan 2009]
IDC Study: Boom Time for Data Warehouse Vendors
Blog IDC provided one of the better tech reads this weekend to fill the gap between New Year and Monday morning. Analyst Stephen Swoyer was part of the team that reportedly takes up to half the year... [05 Jan 2009]
Revelations, Ruminations and New Year’s Resolutions
Blog Probably the least original theme to pick for a blog this week (but a pleasing distraction none the less) is the chance to think about 2009 from a technical writer’s perspective and try and lay a... [31 Dec 2008]
DejaVu time of year...
Blog Yes, it's that end of time feeling again, when lazy repeats masquerade as best-of-the-year. My DejaVu experience is somewhat more prosaic. A current client has a job designed using the DejaVu Sans... [29 Dec 2008]
Which “one” word sums up information technology for you in 2...
Blog An impossible task I know, but a pleasant distraction from the turkey and cranberry overload this yuletide had me rummaging through my stack of this year’s 200-odd blogs to try and produce a single... [29 Dec 2008]
JCE settings - for myself
Blog I do it for myself, I do and that's what really helps [apologies to Radiohead] Very often I'll write a blog entry that contains useful information for me, that I think other people might... [27 Dec 2008]
High-end video-conferencing apps vs. quick and dirty web-col...
Blog I’m in the middle of a video-conferencing feature looking at companies like Tandberg, Polycom, Cisco and LifeSize. I’m hearing that the applications that these guys have built (which typically sit... [18 Dec 2008]
[offtopic] The act of perpetation
Blog A friend of mine has coined the verb "to perpetate". This means to discard an item of shopping in the wrong place once you've found something better. Similar behaviour can occur with... [18 Dec 2008]
Adobe pushes AIR for Linux out of beta
News The company has brought its integrated runtime environment for Linux up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users [18 Dec 2008]
Next-gen m-commerce: wonder wands or worrisome wormholes?
Blog Now let’s get one thing straight before I mention m-commerce. I do have a mobile phone, but I don’t take it to the gym with me and I can’t understand people who call me on it when they know I am... [17 Dec 2008]
It's all an illusion...
Blog I'm in the process of building a simple web site for Rob at Waste Utilities. Whilst in the midst of building, I was struck by the sleight of hand illusionist principles employed -- a drop shadow... [17 Dec 2008]
Will you tune in to “Broadcast 2.0”..?
Blog Software developers with a penchant for all things Web 2.0 related will surely be eyeing the quickly developing Internet-driven television on-demand services such as BBC iPlayer with great interest... [15 Dec 2008]
These are a few of my favourite things...
Blog All Linux and Ubuntu related, of course. And all free, of course. Gnome Do: Miraculous quick app starter, a la QuickSilver. Alternatively, you can call it an Intelligent Launcher Tool. ... [11 Dec 2008]
The Social Networking Pen is Mightier than the Sword
Blog As the professional use of social networking tools finally comes of age, it is very interesting to see how their post adolescent development is being integrated into the technology firmament under... [11 Dec 2008]
Pssst! Want to see some pre-alpha prototype software?
Blog The worst developer conference I have ever been to (and I have made a habit of hanging around these things for the last half decade) has to be the unfortunate couple of days I spent with Gupta... [09 Dec 2008]
Microsoft launches open-source blogging platform
News Oxite is aimed at developers and not designed to compete with the likes of WordPress or Movable Type, according to the software maker [09 Dec 2008]
£1,000 up for grabs at Last.fm hack day
Blog Just a quick post to let developers with a penchant for speed writing know that Last.fm, the online music service, is holding a hack day on Sunday, 14 December in London. The challenge is to build... [08 Dec 2008]
Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Having recently worked with Sun to provide a surface-level overview of its Java training facilities, a resource caught my eye this week that was labeled as 'A community site for Java developers' -... [08 Dec 2008]
Up periscope: Adobe's GUI updates for US Navy's green screen...
Blog I could comfortably blog for the next two weeks on stories emanating from Adobe's MAX developer conference which I attended in Milan at the start of this week. There are new “project” releases... [05 Dec 2008]
Major Python update makes break with past
News Python 3.0 is a major change from the Python 2 series, and the first release that is intentionally backwards-incompatible [04 Dec 2008]
Sun seeks new coders, revenue via JavaFX
Analysis With the launch of JavaFX 1.0, Sun is trying to reclaim Java's strength as a foundation for rich internet applications. But it's no longer the incumbent [04 Dec 2008]
Adobe MAX is looking pretty Flash in Milan
Blog It has been ten years since I lived in Rome working as a satellite TV transmission controller – so my Italian is pretty rusty. Arriving in Milan for Adobe's MAX developer conference this week, I... [02 Dec 2008]
Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog As welcome as USB was at the time of its introduction in 1996, it has arguably now become such a part of the fabric of the technology landscape that we generally fail to get very excited about it -... [01 Dec 2008]
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed [01 Dec 2008]
Modular kitchen systems
Blog One of the joys of moving into a new house is fitting a new kitchen, and I have learnt a lot about kitchens over the past few days. When you're fitting kitchens, modularity is king. I had the... [29 Nov 2008]
Back to school with Sun
Blog This week I’ve been able to attend a Java SE training course at Sun’s Camberley campus. The primary reason I am here is that my better half is studying the course, so I figured this would be a... [27 Nov 2008]
Get your filthy hands off my code!
Blog For some years now (well the last half decade at least) various vendors from the Business Intelligence space to the pure-play development behemoths have been talking about bringing in the influence... [25 Nov 2008]
Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET
Q&A Visual Studio chiefs Jason Zander and Matt Carter set out the company's manifesto for data democracy [21 Nov 2008]
Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog I think the unwritten law of blogging states that if you hadn’t particularly been thinking about a topic and you get one phone call and three e-mails from different sources focused on the same... [21 Nov 2008]
