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By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterSamsung has announced final details and specifications of the Galaxy Tab, a tablet device running Android 2.2 “Froyo”.
It has a 7-inch1024x600 multi-touch screen, 1.00 Ghz processor, GPS, wi-fi, 3G internet, 1.4 megapixel webcam, 7 hours battery life if playing a video (I imagine much longer than that in normal use)
…continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab – among the first of many iPad clones
By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has defended the role of Silverlight in the HTML 5 era. Arguing that it is natural for HTML to acquire some of the features previously provided by plug-ins – “because some of these features are so pervasive on the web that they are seen
…continue reading Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role
By tim, on September 1st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve successfully installed Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (including Delphi). I’m running Windows 7 64-bit. On first quitting RAD Studio (which is still called bds.exe – it stands for Borland Development Studio) I got this message:
Fortunately I know exactly what this means. Read here for my earlier explanation. And if I go
…continue reading Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7
By tim, on August 31st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterIt seems to be open season for software patent litigation. Oracle is suing Google over its use of Java in Android. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing is suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and others – the Wall Street Journal has an illustrated discussion of the patents involved here. Let’s not forget that
…continue reading Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform
By tim, on August 26th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterThis is one of those strange Windows things. You’ll be working away, try to perform some action that would normally open a dialog or window, when you see a message like this:
In this case it is Font ‘Lucida Sans’ does not support style ‘Regular’; but the font varies and other common
…continue reading Font does not support style regular – a fix for this annoying error
By tim, on August 26th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterDeveloping for iPhone is a hot topic. Many developers are not only having to learn Apple’s Objective C and the Cocoa application framework, but are also new to mobile development. It is a big shift. Josh Clark is a iPhone designer, and his book Tapworthy is about how to design apps that people will
…continue reading Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterSapphireSteel Software is poised to release Amethyst, which lets you develop Flash and Flex applications with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 or 2010.
Why bother? There’s two aspects to this. One is simply the comfort factor: if you are a .NET developer used to Visual Studio, but now working on Flash or Flex, this could
…continue reading Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterUsers of Office Web Apps have just been given some minor but welcome updates, described here.
They include printing in Word when in edit mode,new chart tools in Excel, and again in Excel the handy autofill tool, which lets you drag the bottom left corner of a selection to extend it automatically. In the
…continue reading Cloud users get Microsoft Office Web Apps update first
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI had a chat with Jay Schmelzer and Doug Seven from the Visual Studio LightSwitch team. I asked about the release date – no news yet.
What else? Well, Schmelzer and Seven had read my earlier blog post so we discussed some of the things I speculated about. Windows Phone 7? Won’t be in
…continue reading Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?
By tim, on August 24th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has announced a new edition of Visual Studio called LightSwitch, now available in beta, and it is among the most interesting development tools I’ve seen. That does not mean it will succeed; if anything it is too radical and might fail for that reason, though it deserves better. Here’s some of the things
…continue reading Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
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