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Infragistics: upbeat on Windows Phone but also building for Apple iOS, Google...
I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO and co-founder of Infragistics, at TechEd in Atlanta earlier this week. Infragistics makes components, mainly for Windows but now beginning to support non-Windows clients....
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Wolfram announces Computable Document Format for interactive docs
Wolfram has announced the Computable Document Format (CDF), a document format that enables live computation to be embedded within it. “It’s a new way to communicate the world’s quantitative ideas much...
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Java Standard Edition 7 is done, but feels like an interim release
Oracle has released Java SE 7: Oracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the first release of the Java platform under Oracle stewardship. What’s in Java...
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Heroku gets Java, Salesforce.com embraces HTML5 for mobile
Salesforce.com has made a host of announcements at its Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco. In brief: Chatter, the Salesforce.com social networking platform for enterprises, is...
View ArticleReview: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley
I like this book. I know I like it because I find myself wanting to quote from it frequently. It is a book that almost every software developer should read, even if you disagree with parts of it –...
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Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?
Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose...
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Eclipse and Xtend: some confusion in getting started
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....
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Oxygene for Java released: develop for Android and Java runtime with Delphi...
RemObjects has released Oxygene for Java, a new version of its Object Pascal compiler. Object Pascal is pretty much the Delphi language though with some additional features of its own. Previous...
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IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android?
Late last year the JetBrains team released IntelliJ IDEA 12, the latest version of its Java IDE. Java today has many roles, but two dominate. One is server-side programming using one of many Java...
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Java software quality: frameworks good, Struts or C++ bad says report
CAST has released an intriguing report on Java applications and software quality. The company analysed 497 applications, comprising 152 million lines of code across 88 organisations and six global...
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