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December 2011

  1. Holiday season free giveaway: a must-read for developers
  2. ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year
  3. An Apple iPad Christmas
  4. Running Windows on an Apple iPad
  5. Adobe: why the big business shift when financial results look so good?
  6. Android: good or bad for Java? Oracle claims harm but I am sceptical
  7. On Supercomputers, China’s Tianhe-1A in particular, and why you should think twice before going to see one
  8. Adobe discontinues Flash Catalyst, clarifies Flex and Flash Builder futures
  9. Review: my bargain iPad Bluetooth keyboard from a Chinese market
  10. NVIDIA plans to merge CPU and GPU – eventually
  11. 3D games: gimmick or the next generation?
  12. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang beats the drum for GPU computing
  13. GPU computing with NVIDIA in Beijing
  14. Silverlight 5 is done. Is Silverlight also done?
  15. HP contributes webOS to open source. Where next for HP mobile devices?
  16. Nokia Lumia 800 review: beautiful phone, some annoyances
  17. Not allowed in Windows 8 Metro: porn, ads in live tiles, bugs, or opt-out data collection
  18. Windows Store: Microsoft explains another piece of its new platform
  19. Why there are no tablets running Windows Phone 7
  20. High resolution downloads from Kate Bush
  21. Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 with Office 365 migration wizard and retro Outlook Mini
  22. Google and the UK Citizens Advice Bureau – an uncomfortable alliance
  23. Quadrophenia Exhibition in London’s Carnaby Street
  24. A Lego Christmas Tree at St Pancras Station, London

November 2011

  1. Android and Carrier IQ: alarming claims, immediate questions
  2. Oxygene for Java released: develop for Android and Java runtime with Delphi language in Visual Studio
  3. Thoughts on the future of the Win32 platform
  4. Windows Phone, Exchange, and self-signed certificates
  5. Why developers need a Mac
  6. Sencha’s Michael Mullany talks about Flash developers “flailing around for an alternative” and the Big App Rewrite
  7. Fixing a Windows 7 blue screen with Driver Verifier
  8. Google’s real-time analytics, and why it gives it away
  9. HTML5 scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire weak, iOS 5 great, IE10 preview one of the best
  10. Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart
  11. Kate Bush fears the death of the album as an art form
  12. What is the best programming language for a child progressing from Scratch?
  13. Windows 8 Tablet in June 2012? If so, I am betting ARM not Intel x86
  14. Hassles with Intel RAID – Rapid Storage Technology
  15. AVI announces ADM40 active floorstanding loudspeakers
  16. Adobe’s Falcon JS: Compile Flex code to HTML and Javascript
  17. Squeezebox server gets DLNA support: play FLAC on iPad
  18. PCs down, Android up: astonishing figures from Gartner show shift to mobile
  19. Adobe favours HTML over Flex, retreats from its enterprise app platform
  20. Review: Quadrophenia director’s cut
  21. GPU programming coming to low-power and mobile devices – from EU Mont Blanc supercomputer to smartphones
  22. New OpenACC compiler directives announced for GPU accelerated programming
  23. Developing for Windows Phone: what’s new
  24. Asus Transformer Prime looks great – but I would rather have it with Windows 8
  25. Adobe’s cloud plans: most customers will migrate, pay more, get more
  26. Google App Inventor not dead, MIT to offer public service in 2012
  27. What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin
  28. Adobe “shifting its business model”: more publishing, less programming
  29. What will it take to make Windows Phone a success?
  30. Eclipse and Xtend: some confusion in getting started
  31. How not to ship a hard drive
  32. Quick thoughts on Xcode and Objective C versus Microsoft’s tools
  33. Moving Windows with its applications: too difficult
  34. Something has changed for Windows Phone
  35. Review: JetBrains AppCode for Objective C
  36. Breaking Intel RAID: what happens to your data?
  37. The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
  38. Hard drive shortage, price madness

October 2011

  1. Nokia’s Windows Phone gamble
  2. Sanity prevails at HP which is keeping its PC division
  3. Twilio: programmable telephony, SMS comes to the UK, Europe
  4. Delphi XE2 FireMonkey for Windows, Mac, iOS: great idea, but is it usable?
  5. Blue screen, Windows 8 style
  6. Microsoft financials: Server and Office business still growing
  7. Review: Broadway 2T network TV streamer for PC and iPad or mobile device
  8. Zend’s PHP cloud: develop in the cloud, deploy anywhere
  9. Bridge for Apple iPad and iPhone: FunBridge upgraded, no longer free
  10. If the laptop had been invented after the tablet …
  11. Review: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5
  12. Review: The Bowie Variations by Mike Garson
  13. Kingston Wi-Drive extends iOS storage, but not hassle-free
  14. Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash
  15. Drobo storage devices: beyond RAID
  16. Document security and Apple iCloud
  17. New Sony PlayStation Network hack: not as bad as you may have heard
  18. Subversion 1.7 released: just one .svn directory per working copy
  19. Adobe: no new features for open source BlazeDS data services
  20. Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?
  21. CodeRage free online conference for Delphi and RAD Studio starts next week
  22. Hands On with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 8
  23. Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features
  24. Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 2011 … and that annoying updater
  25. Developers keen to get apps on Barnes & Noble Nook
  26. Adobe Debut: my favourite of the new touch apps, cloud-side rendering
  27. Adobe acquires PhoneGap company Nitobi

September 2011

  1. Windows Runtime must come to Windows Phone
  2. PhoneGap likely to move to Apache Software Foundation
  3. Amazon Silk: fast cloud-powered browser, or a new way to mine your data?
  4. A few observations on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”
  5. Delphi and RAD Studio XE2 gets its first update as Embarcadero confesses copyright issue
  6. The Adobe Flash and Windows Phone 7 mystery
  7. An ugly dialog from Spotify
  8. Miguel de Icaza talks about Windows 8 and the failure of Linux on the desktop
  9. Android tablets ahead of Apple iPad on Amazon
  10. A simple example of async and await in C# 5
  11. The closest I got to Windows on ARM at Microsoft BUILD 2011
  12. Appcelerator opens component marketplace for mobile developers
  13. Finding apps in Windows 8
  14. Adobe to ship Flash 11 and AIR 3, repositions Flash vs HTML 5
  15. Delphi team focusing on FireMonkey, VCL winding down?
  16. Installing Windows 8 developer preview on VirtualBox
  17. Why I miss pinball machines
  18. Reflections on Microsoft BUILD 2011
  19. No plugins in Metro-style IE, and here is why
  20. Data Access in Windows 8 WinRT
  21. A few facts about Microsoft’s new Windows Runtime
  22. Which Microsoft cloud? Windows Server 8 shows Azure is not everything
  23. Here comes Windows 8 – but what about the apps?
  24. Building Windows – when Microsoft shows its hand
  25. PhoneGap comes to Windows Phone
  26. Review: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley
  27. Amazon entices Android developers with $50 incentive
  28. Windows Phone 7 apps, stats and future
  29. Internet security hangs on a DNS thread, as hacks of The Register, Telegraph, Acer sites demonstrates
  30. Hands on with Delphi XE2 for Apple iOS
  31. Google gets serious about App Engine, ups prices

August 2011

  1. Full circle for Microsoft database APIs as OLEDB for SQL Server is deprecated
  2. Heroku gets Java, Salesforce.com embraces HTML5 for mobile
  3. Perfect virtualization is a threat to Windows: VMWare aims to embrace and extinguish
  4. Windows Live Messenger error message hell
  5. Adobe says role of Flex and Flash has changed, makes play for mobile
  6. jQuery usage soars as Adobe Flash shows slight decline
  7. Thoughts on Apple and Steve Jobs as he resigns as CEO
  8. File operations in Windows: the good and the bad, the past and the future
  9. Review: Verbatim’s USB audio bar – simple, well made, good sound
  10. Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment: what is the difference?
  11. HP business breakdown and why a PC spin-off could backfire
  12. HP discontinues WebOS, considers PC spin-off. Should have stuck with Microsoft
  13. Review: Audéo Perfect Fit earphones
  14. Reports of 19% decline in Western European PC market show structural change
  15. Google is now a hardware company as it announces acquisition of Motorola Mobility and its patents
  16. Kingston Wi-Drive: portable storage expansion for iPad and iPhone
  17. Adobe Muse: so what is wrong with Dreamweaver?
  18. Google Native Client: browser apps unleashed, or misconceived and likely to fail?
  19. C++ 11 is approved by ISO: a big day for native code development
  20. An iOS security tip: tap and hold links in emails to preview links
  21. Building PasswordSafe for the Mac: Lion development hassles
  22. Mozilla to take on the cross-platform app challenge
  23. Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac: nice work but beware Windows security settings
  24. Book Review: The Book of Ruby by Huw Collingbourne
  25. Charlie Kindel leaving Microsoft
  26. Real-world Microsoft Team Foundation Server: Not very good, says ThoughtWorks
  27. Amazon.com offers U2 band members for sale
  28. Delphi for Windows, Mac and iOS: screenshots and video of cross-platform development
  29. PhoneGap is at version 1.0
  30. Monitor your home when away: Jabbakam IP camera service reviewed
  31. What’s coming in Delphi RAD Studio XE2: more details of 64-bit and Mac announced, introducing FireMonkey
  32. Android only 23% open says report; Linux, Eclipse win praise
  33. Same price: four eMachine ER1401 or one Apple Mac Mini
  34. Adobe Edge previewed: another step towards HTML 5

July 2011

  1. A classic album you may have missed
  2. GPU Programming for .NET: Tidepowerd’s GPU.NET gets some improvements, more needed
  3. Java Standard Edition 7 is done, but feels like an interim release
  4. Apple’s RAM upgrade prices are extortionate. Save money by buying elsewhere.
  5. Microsoft releases Visual Studio LightSwitch: a fascinating product with an uncertain future
  6. Review: Hands On with the HP TouchPad
  7. Living in an App Store world: what are the implications?
  8. Adobe closes AIR Marketplace, InMarket
  9. Microsoft financials: Office and server dominate as Windows falters
  10. Adobe recommends Flash Builder, Adobe Reader users not to upgrade to Apple Mac OS X Lion
  11. Nokia results: demonstrating the Osborne effect?
  12. Wolfram announces Computable Document Format for interactive docs
  13. Just when you’ve finished paying for Live at Leeds, here comes the Quadrophenia super deluxe box
  14. Apple’s new Mac Mini ditches DVD drive, promotes App Store
  15. Mozilla CEO fearful of closed mobile platforms. So what next for Mozilla and Firefox?
  16. The strategy behind Mono has shifted: ten years of open source .NET
  17. When remote desktop does not connect: changing Windows DNS setttings remotely
  18. SQL Server 2011 Denali publishes tables as Windows network folders
  19. Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 will have cross-platform compilation
  20. Adobe releases 64-bit Flash Player 11 beta, AIR 3 with packager for Windows, Mac, Android
  21. Microsoft partners are not whooping and cheering for Office 365
  22. Google+, Bing social search, and internet monopolies
  23. Renault’s electric Frendzy includes RIM Playbook, external 37” screen
  24. Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow
  25. Google Plus demands your location on iPhone, iPad and mobile devices – but you still have control
  26. Hands on debugging an Azure application – what to do when it works locally but not in the cloud
  27. The frustration of developing for Facebook with C#
  28. HP breaks 2.5 million web support links
  29. ReSharper 6.0 arrives: intelligent editing and decompiling for Visual Studio
  30. Now you can rip SACDs

June 2011

  1. Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2 gets web workers, HTML5 sandbox
  2. Microsoft Office 365: the detail and the developer story
  3. Office 365 and why it will succeed
  4. Keyboards, consoles and living rooms: Trust Thinity reviewed
  5. Microsoft partners with Joyent to bring node.js server-side JavaScript to Windows
  6. Apple’s uneasy relationship with its retailers
  7. IE9 ActiveX Filtering causing tears of frustration
  8. Hands On with Flash Builder 4.5.1 for Apple iOS
  9. Adobe announces strong results though much of the business looks flat
  10. C# vs C++ and .NET vs Mono vs Compact Framework performance tests
  11. RESTful and modernised: making sense of Adobe’s new Enterprise platform
  12. Adobe Flash Builder now targets Apple iOS, BlackBerry PlayBook, Google Android
  13. Warring models of music distribution
  14. This is why people ignore security warnings: IE9 blocks official Microsoft update
  15. Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux
  16. Hands On with Appcelerator Titanium Studio
  17. Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development
  18. Easy database apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro and Go
  19. Notes from the field: migrating a small business to Microsoft BPOS
  20. Common sense on Windows 8, Silverlight and .NET
  21. Mobile development research shows complex picture
  22. Apple iCloud: i is for integrated
  23. Full circle at Microsoft: from the early days of .NET to the new Chakra JavaScript engine
  24. Nintendo bringing dual screen to the Wii with smart controller
  25. Financial Times ports app to web to avoid iTunes
  26. Gang of Four member Erich Gamma joining Microsoft’s Visual Studio team
  27. Considering Windows 8 as an HTML platform
  28. Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8
  29. Asus announces combined smartphone and tablet – the Padfone
  30. A pivotal moment for Microsoft as it attempts to escape its Windows legacy
  31. Check out these images of Windows 8 – but where is Silverlight?
  32. OpenOffice moving to Apache; next step reunification with LibreOffice
  33. Perforce is developing a content management system called Chronicle, says we should version everything

May 2011

  1. Review: Q2 Internet Radio, colourful minimalism
  2. Review: Eminent EM7195 HD media player
  3. Review: Jabra Wave Bluetooth headset and why you need A2DP
  4. Fixing a Nintendo DS Lite
  5. Disappearing cloud APIs: a new legacy software problem in the making
  6. Would you consider running PHP on Azure? Microsoft faces uphill battle to convince customers.
  7. SharePoint Workspace 2010 – what a mess
  8. Windows Phone “Mango” shown, looks good but still no Adobe Flash
  9. Cracks appear in Microsoft’s bundled installers for Visual Studio 2010 as I try ADFS
  10. BT selling Openzone wifi access by default through its customers broadband, some do not realise it
  11. Infragistics: upbeat on Windows Phone but also building for Apple iOS, Google Android
  12. Three questions about Microsoft’s cloud play at TechEd 2011
  13. What’s coming in Microsoft Visual Studio
  14. Mono splits from Novell/Attachmate to form basis of new company
  15. Cloud is identity management says Kim Cameron, now ex-Microsoft
  16. Apple, Google: risks of third–party platforms for developers
  17. Chromebook: web applications put to the test, and by the way no Java
  18. Battle of the portables: Netbook vs Apple iPad 2
  19. Hands On with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for Android
  20. Google seeks to automate the home
  21. Microsoft’s Azure toolkit for Apple iOS and Android is a start, but nothing like enough
  22. Hands On with RunRev LiveCode: rapid development for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows
  23. Apple iPad, Pages and Microsoft SharePoint – it works
  24. Apple’s iPad 2 Smart Cover: great stand, poor cover
  25. Funbridge: bridge for iPhone and iPad
  26. Succeeding in an App Store world: lessons from the Angry Birds story
  27. Mobile developers follow the users; PhoneGap most popular cross-platform toolkit says survey
  28. The mobile app ecosystem before Apple – was it really this bad?
  29. Why Spotify should stick to streaming, not copy iTunes
  30. Building a PhoneGap app for iPhone with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5
  31. Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie moving to Windows Azure
  32. Photosynth for iPhone: capturing the unphotographable
  33. First encounter with Spotify sixth play bar – but what is the reason?

April 2011

  1. Dreamweaver CS5.5 PhoneGap apps: performance issues on Android
  2. NVIDIA postpones GPU Technology Conference to Spring 2012
  3. Hands on: Building a PhoneGap app with Dreamweaver CS 5.5
  4. Brian Eno and Rick Holland: Drums between the bells
  5. Decent Microsoft results, but where is the cloud? where is mobile?
  6. Logitech’s Squeezebox app for iPhone and iPad: nice to have but a missed opportunity
  7. Sony PlayStation network hacked, some disclosure, questions remain
  8. Developers and mobile platforms: lies, damn lies and surveys
  9. Implications of Amazon’s cloud failure
  10. Getting started with VMWare Cloud Foundry
  11. Hands on with Office 365 – great service, some hassles
  12. The rise of the eBook is a profound change in our culture
  13. Native apps better than web apps? That’s silly talk says PhoneGap president
  14. Is Appcelerator Titanium native? And what does native mean anyway?
  15. Oracle says OpenOffice non-strategic, ceases commercial versions. Time to reunite with Libre Office?
  16. All-new Adobe Audition is re-written for cross-platform, some features not yet ported
  17. Windows Phone at Mix 2011: what Microsoft said and did not say
  18. Spotify is now less free but still a better deal than Apple iTunes
  19. When will Intel’s Many Integrated Core processors be mainstream?
  20. As Cisco closes down Flip, is device convergence finally happening?
  21. Microsoft releases IE10 preview, talks up native HTML5
  22. Adobe announces Flash Builder for PHP, PhoneGap integration in Dreamweaver
  23. Adobe announces Flash Builder for PHP, PhoneGap integration in Dreamweaver
  24. Trying out Remote Desktop to a Microsoft Azure virtual machine
  25. Hands On with Visual Studio LightSwitch – but what is it for?
  26. Pentax looks to comic heroes to attract buyers
  27. What’s the use of computing certifications?
  28. Five years of Amazon Web Services
  29. Measuring the Freeloader Classic solar mobile charger
  30. Microsoft promises Silverlight 5 beta soon, more love for HTML 5 in uncertain blog post
  31. Fit for business? Google updates App Engine with the Enterprise in mind
  32. Escaping Apple: trying to switch away is hard
  33. Does HDCD make CDs sound worse?

March 2011

  1. Review: Lenco iPD-4500 portable iPod dock–zip up your sounds
  2. Windows Phone 8 will run Windows 8, with Silverlight centre stage?
  3. Appcelerator CEO on Titanium, Aptana and the future of mobile development
  4. More germs on an iPhone than on a toilet seat? Proporta’s screen protectors kill the other kind of bugs.
  5. How an RTF file can install a virus when opened
  6. Amazon introduces its cloud player – but Spotify makes more sense
  7. Microsoft backs Telefonica’s BlueVia mobile SDK – but the market is fragmented
  8. Fixing modern plastic junk that should be thrown away
  9. Small businesses and the cloud: 60% have no plans to adopt?
  10. Another Windows app store – but this time it is virtual. Embarcadero’s AppWave promises instant installs
  11. RIM announces Java and Android runtimes for the Playbook, beta of native SDK
  12. 15 minutes with the Nintendo 3DS
  13. Review: Plantronics Voyager Pro UC v2 – go hands free everywhere
  14. Silverlight in Microsoft products – Silverlight the new Windows runtime, HTML 5 the new Silverlight?
  15. Browser wars heat up as Firefox 4 arrives
  16. Adobe AIR 2.6, MonoMac 1.0, cross-platform is not dead yet
  17. Disappearing items in Outlook and Exchange
  18. Review: Plantronics Calisto 825: a speakerphone for Microsoft Lync, iPhone or other mobiles
  19. The future of Google Apps: social features, high performance spreadsheets, working offline
  20. Google opens up discussions on docs
  21. Microsoft’s code-first Entity Framework 4.1 nearly done
  22. Microsoft’s stumbling Windows Phone 7 launch – from a fan
  23. What’s the story with IE9 and embedded Internet Explorer?
  24. Review: Seagate GoFlex for Mac portable hard drive
  25. Poor usability in Microsoft’s Xbox Live billing and support
  26. Fast JavaScript engine in Apple iOS 4.3 is in standalone Safari only, but why?
  27. Guardian.co.uk enthuses about MongoDB, plans to ditch Oracle
  28. Microsoft remakes WCF for REST and the web
  29. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 install failures common?
  30. Google on innovation – or should that be copying?
  31. The Apple iPad post-PC era in education
  32. QCon London kicks off with call to rediscover Agile, use open source
  33. Adobe Document Center shutting down, protected documents to become unreadable
  34. Adobe targets Apple iPhone and iPad browsers with tool to convert Flash projects
  35. Mono project: no plans for cross-platform WPF
  36. Review: Seagate GoFlex media sharing dock – Pogoplug in disguise
  37. Review: Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive
  38. Fixing iPhone 4 not detected on a Mac
  39. DevExpress developers ask for more Windows Forms, say Silverlight and WPF not ready
  40. JetBrains announces IDE for Objective C to compete with Xcode
  41. When the cartridges cost more than the printer: the Inkjet market is absurd and disgraceful
  42. Google fails to protect its mobile platform
  43. Apple announces slightly better iPad, world goes nuts
  44. Solar charge your mobile: sounds good, but how practical is it?
  45. JetBrains WebStorm 2.0 and PHPStorm 2.0 First Look
  46. First eye-controlled laptop announced by Lenovo and Tobii

February 2011

  1. NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 simplifies GPU programming, aims for mainstream
  2. Another cloud fail: disappearing Google accounts
  3. What’s in HP’s Beats Audio, marketing aside?
  4. Straining to hear: the benefits of SACD audio
  5. Don’t be fooled. 24-bit will not fix computer audio
  6. Tiny data projectors using Texas Instruments DLP chips
  7. Hands on with Google Cloud Connect: Microsoft docs in Google’s cloud
  8. Where is Microsoft going with its Rich Client API? Microsoft drops some clues as developers fret
  9. Microsoft still paying the price for botched Vista with muddled development strategy
  10. Appcelerator releases Titanium Mobile 1.6
  11. Microsoft Open XML embarrassment: spaces go missing between words
  12. Amazon Kindle goes social with Public Notes, Twitter and Facebook integration
  13. What will it take to get developers to try Windows Azure? Microsoft improves its trial offer
  14. Microsoft’s BPOS password madness driving users to Google Apps
  15. RunRev releases LiveCode for Android preview alongside iOS, Mac, Windows, Linux
  16. My question to the Gorilla Glass folk: when is Apple going to call?
  17. First look at HP’s TouchPad WebOS tablet
  18. Computer book stats show resilience of Java as Android booms
  19. Exchange 2007 to 2010 migration hassles
  20. Wireless power at Mobile World Congress: no more chargers?
  21. Farewell to Bizarre Creations, makers of Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars
  22. Motorola Atrix – the future of the laptop?
  23. Qualcomm: optimising for Windows Phone took years not months
  24. NVidia: first mobile quad-core devices will be this year
  25. Java Me is the top mobile platform says Oracle
  26. The LG Optimus 3D is amazing
  27. HTC’s new Android tablet has a stylus
  28. Nokia’s Elop fears mobile duopoly, but it is already here
  29. IE9 in Windows Phone will be good for cross-platform JavaScript and HTML5 apps
  30. Viewsonic ViewPad 10 Pro does Windows and Android – but Windows first
  31. Single chipset religion unhelpful to Microsoft-Nokia alliance
  32. Android Market not working for all customers, says Angry Birds CEO
  33. Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona
  34. Intel disappointed with Nokia’s Microsoft move, still backing MeeGo
  35. Qt will not be ported to Windows Phone 7 says Nokia
  36. MeeGo, Qt, and the new Nokia: developers express their doubts
  37. Nokia adopts Windows Phone 7: game on
  38. Trying out MonoTouch – C# for Apple’s iPhone and iPad
  39. Using SQLite 3 with Unicode in Delphi
  40. Microsoft’s new President of Server and Tools–Satya Nadella, from Bing division
  41. Dear BBC: please give us mobile apps for offline viewing
  42. MeeGo NoGo: things look bad for the Intel/Nokia Linux project
  43. Restoring an old Small Business Server 2008 backup: beware expired Active Directory
  44. Nokia plus Windows Phone 7 – would that be a smart move?
  45. Trying out copy and paste in Windows Phone 7
  46. Fixing a laptop screen
  47. Updated SQLite wrapper for Embarcadero Delphi (and Free Pascal)
  48. Red Gate to charge for .NET Reflector, runs into storm of protest
  49. Server admin on the go with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 app for SBS 2011
  50. How Microsoft’s Office Web Apps were written in C# and compiled to JavaScript, maybe
  51. Using HTML 5 to mitigate locked-down platforms like Apple iOS

January 2011

  1. Delphi and C++ Builder XE Starter Editions announced
  2. Gadget Writing – iPhone docks, 5.1 headphones, mobile, gaming and more
  3. Mobl: a new language for mobile applications, with Eclipse integration
  4. AVI preparing a successor to the ADM 9.1 – the floorstanding ADM 40
  5. Server and Tools shine in Microsoft results – so why is Bob Muglia leaving?
  6. Richard Thompson Nottingham 27 January 2011
  7. No more Ruby support in NetBeans – the feature was little used, says Oracle
  8. How is Windows Azure doing? Few mission critical apps says Microsoft
  9. Back to BASIC with NS App Studio for mobile
  10. Surround sound 5.1 headphones–why and why not. Roccat Kave reviewed
  11. Accelerating PHP with the Alternative PHP Cache
  12. Silverlight native extensions allow deep Windows 7 integration, but forget cross-platform
  13. Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk auto-scales your cloud application
  14. Fixing slow access to SharePoint mapped drives in Windows 7
  15. Appcelerator acquires Aptana
  16. Talk of Windows 8 on an smartphone shows Microsoft’s mobile confusion
  17. Adobe AIR is user-hostile compared to native apps says BankSimple CTO
  18. nginx market share growing faster than any other web server
  19. Microsoft WebMatrix released: a simple editor for ASP.NET Razor and more, but who is the target user?
  20. Half-baked Android tablets will help Apple, give hope to Microsoft
  21. Google, Adobe Flash, and H.264 video
  22. Visual Studio 2010 nine months on: how good has it proved?
  23. Google flexes its Chrome browser muscles, removes support for H.264 video – but what about Adobe Flash?
  24. What next for application help and documentation? First thoughts on Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite 3
  25. How Microsoft SharePoint makes simple things hard
  26. Bob Muglia leaving Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer searching for new cloud leadership
  27. Spotify everywhere: now on Logitech Squeezebox as well as Sonos, Smartphones
  28. No Java or Adobe AIR apps in Apple’s Mac App Store
  29. Apple’s Mac App Store – and the forgotten Windows Marketplace
  30. NVIDIA Tegra 2: amazing mobile power that hints at the future of client computing
  31. Steve Ballmer at CES: Microsoft pins mobile hopes on Windows 8
  32. Xbox Kinect has sold 8 million since launch, and is driving more controller-free features
  33. NVIDIA’s first CPU, Project Denver, aims to bring ARM to desktops and servers
  34. Windows 8 will run on ARM processors – a natural home for Silverlight?
  35. 2010 a bad year for UK music sales as CDs decline and paid-for downloads fail to compensate
  36. Hardware vendors chase Apple’s iPad at CES with Android, not Windows
  37. Creating a Web Application for the Google Chrome Web Store

2010 341

December 2010

  1. Ten big tech trends from 2010
  2. Microsoft Hyper-V Annoyance: special permissions for VHDs
  3. Microsoft Outlook 2010 annoyance: tasks do not show in contact activities
  4. Microsoft Exchange 2010 annoyance: certificate wizard incompatible with certificate services
  5. Remote access to files in Microsoft Small Business Server 2011
  6. How to get better sound: higher resolution, or something else?
  7. What you read in 2010: top posts on ITWriting.com
  8. Review: Audyssey iPhone Audio Dock South of Market Edition
  9. Fixing Age of Empires 2 graphics in Windows 7
  10. iPhone plus Amazon app = shopping revolution through magic of barcode scanning
  11. Microsoft’s muddled licensing for Office Web Apps
  12. Fixing a slow Windows XP PC
  13. Single sign-on from Active Directory to Windows Azure: big feature, still challenging
  14. Microsoft inadvertently shares BPOS offline address books with other customers
  15. Adobe declares glittering results as CEO says Apple’s Flash ban has no impact on its revenue
  16. Why Windows Installer pops up when you run an application
  17. Rumblings in the Subversion community as WANdisco claims to be “shaking it up”
  18. First impressions of Google TV – get an Apple iPad instead?
  19. Don’t miss Ryan Dahl on Node.js
  20. The Salesforce.com platform play
  21. Salesforce.com acquires Heroku, wants your Enterprise apps
  22. Database.com extends the salesforce.com platform
  23. Google App Engine and why vendor honesty pays
  24. One day of hacks, REST and cloud: Salesforce.com Cloudstock
  25. Wrestling with Microsoft SharePoint
  26. The top Silverlight feature request: implement on more platforms
  27. Silverlight 5 unveiled: more power, more Windows

November 2010

  1. Migrating from physical to virtual with Hyper-V and disk2vhd
  2. Adobe abandons Project ROME, focuses on apps rather than cloud
  3. As Microsoft releases new tools for Windows Phone, developers ask: how is it selling?
  4. Could Kinect trigger the Xbox 360 RROD (Red Ring of Death)?
  5. HTML 5 Canvas: the only plugin you need?
  6. Microsoft removes Drive Extender from new Windows Home Server, users rebel
  7. How will online services impact Microsoft’s partner business?
  8. The Microsoft Azure VM role and why you might not want to use it
  9. 25 years of Windows: triumph and tragedy
  10. What you are saying about the Java crisis
  11. WS-I closes its doors–the end of WS-* web services?
  12. The Beatles come to Apple iTunes
  13. Now you can rent GPU computing from Amazon
  14. The Java crisis and what it means for developers
  15. First impressions of Microsoft Kinect – great hardware waiting for great software
  16. UK business applications stagger towards the cloud
  17. The cloud permeates Microsoft’s business more than we may realise
  18. Apple gives up on Xserve dedicated server hardware – looking towards the cloud?
  19. Understanding the Silverlight controversy
  20. Adobe MAX 2010 – it’s all about the partners
  21. Microsoft pledges commitment to Silverlight – but is it enough?

October 2010

  1. Reflections on Microsoft PDC 2010
  2. Microsoft’s Silverlight dream is over
  3. AppFabric – Microsoft’s new middleware
  4. Microsoft PDC big on Azure, quiet on Silverlight
  5. Lessons from Evernote’s flight from .NET
  6. Sneak peeks at Adobe Max 2010
  7. Flash to get 3D acceleration with “Molehill”
  8. Adobe: no AIR planned for Windows Phone 7
  9. Adobe aims to fill mobile vacuum with AIR
  10. An honest assessment of Windows Phone 7
  11. Microsoft lets go of IronPython and IronRuby
  12. Windows Phone 7 battles indifference in London
  13. Apple deprecates Java
  14. Gadgets, gadgets: 5.1 headphones, and a multitude of iPod docks and USB drives
  15. Microsoft unveils Office 365, wins vs Google in California. What are the implications for its future?
  16. Ray Ozzie no longer to be Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect
  17. Adobe Acrobat X puts the focus on security and usability
  18. Which mobile platforms will fail?
  19. PyCharm: JetBRAINS IDE for Python and Django
  20. A useful Windows Phone 7 app in a couple of hours – Where’s my Train
  21. Want a Windows Phone 7? Here are the choices and costs in the UK
  22. IBM to harmonise its open source Java efforts with Oracle
  23. Windows Phone 7 gets decent launch, Stephen Fry’s blessing
  24. Can Microsoft repeat history and come from behind with Windows Phone 7?
  25. Windows Phone 7 development hits the big screen
  26. NuPack brings package management to Microsoft .NET
  27. Steve Ballmer ducks questions at the London School of Economics
  28. Data analysis hot at Future of Web Applications Day One
  29. Rethinking Developers Developers Developers
  30. Google’s web app vision: use our store
  31. Outlook blues: the annoying blue bar when you reply to a message

September 2010

  1. Oracle versus the JCP as Java’s future is debated
  2. ASP.NET Padding Oracle fix released, time to patch for Windows administrators
  3. Why is Microsoft giving away web traffic and abandoning users?
  4. RIM’s new BlackBerry tablet, WebWorks developer platform – but who wants small tablets?
  5. Adobe’s plenoptic lens enables refocus magic
  6. A tale of two stores, and a go with PlayStation Move
  7. GPU programming for .NET
  8. Giada introduces tiny multimedia PC
  9. NVIDIA CEO on the spot: explains Fermi delays, CUDA vs OpenCL, rise of the tablet
  10. Is the triumph of the GPU the failure of the CPU?
  11. NVIDIA talks up GPU computing, presents roadmap
  12. Crisis for ASP.Net – how serious is the Padding Oracle attack?
  13. RunRev renames product to LiveCode, supports iPad and iPhone but not Windows Phone 7
  14. Setup error raises obscure Outlook error message
  15. Salesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison
  16. Why Oracle is immoveable in the Enterprise
  17. Oracle: a good home for MySQL?
  18. SHM-SACD – super-expensive, but how super is the sound?
  19. If Microsoft is serious about Silverlight, it needs to do Linux
  20. Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta is out
  21. Intel AppUp is Up, but underwhelming.
  22. Latest job stats on technology adoption – Flash, Silverlight, iPhone, Android, C#, Java
  23. Delphi XE includes licenses for older versions back to Delphi 7
  24. Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: We have 200+ engineers working on Silverlight and WPF
  25. Adobe extends SVG, HTML 5 support in Illustrator
  26. Microsoft Vine formally withered
  27. More on Microsoft’s difficult choices: WPF, Silverlight, HTML 5
  28. Apple lifts restrictions on app development tools, publishes review guidelines
  29. Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures
  30. The Salesforce.com platform: what’s new, what’s coming
  31. Apple iPad ascendant in business computing
  32. Anti-virus software continues to fail
  33. Ten reasons the Apple iPhone 4 beats the Android HTC Desire
  34. The who’s music brilliantly discussed
  35. BBC iPlayer goes a little social – but what can it learn from YouTube?
  36. Ten ways the Android HTC Desire beats Apple’s iPhone
  37. Decompiling Silverlight
  38. Does Twitter for Android really need all these permissions?
  39. Getting started with Android – a few hassles
  40. Samsung Galaxy Tab – among the first of many iPad clones
  41. Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role
  42. Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7

August 2010

  1. Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform
  2. Font does not support style regular – a fix for this annoying error
  3. Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark
  4. Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio
  5. Cloud users get Microsoft Office Web Apps update first
  6. Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?
  7. Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
  8. Google favours big brands over diversity
  9. Measuring start-up time for .NET, Java, C++
  10. Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users
  11. What users want in Windows 8
  12. Apple not Android is killing client-side Java – so why is Oracle suing Google?
  13. Firefox 4 as Psychedelic as IE9 with Direct2D enabled
  14. New Delphi, RAD Studio XE announced
  15. Render SWF in JavaScript – a solution for Flash on iPhone/iPad?
  16. Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?
  17. Testing the Canvas element in Internet Explorer 9
  18. Where is phpinfo() for .NET?
  19. Internet Explorer 9 Preview gets to 95% on Acid 3
  20. Apple iPad replacing PCs as well as paper?
  21. Oracle breaks, then mends Eclipse with new Java build
  22. Microsoft and the NHS: what went wrong?
  23. Stats that matter: Android grows in mobile, IE stops declining, eBooks take off
  24. SOA, REST and Flash/Flex – why Flash does not PUT

July 2010

  1. New Amazon Kindle with WebKit browser and free 3G internet
  2. Day Software: another strategic acquisition for Adobe
  3. Dropbox: file sync that works, something for Ray Ozzie to think about
  4. Windows Phone 7 briefing report: no enterprise app deployment at launch
  5. Lies, damn lies, and Apple’s antenna-gate
  6. Enterprise app development on Apple iPhone and iPad
  7. HP will not do Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphones – but what chance for webOS?
  8. The Genius of Elton John
  9. BBC News app arrives on iPhone
  10. Microsoft cash cows alive and well, lame ducks still lame
  11. Developing for Windows Phone 7
  12. Reviewing the Belkin Play Max wireless router
  13. Using backup on Windows Hyper-V Server or Server Core
  14. OpenStack takes on Amazon with open source cloud computing
  15. Why is there so much junk in Apple’s App Store?
  16. David bowie Station to station gets the super deluxe treatment
  17. How infectious is the GPL? Battle of words between WordPress and Thesis
  18. Dysfunctional Microsoft?
  19. Google App Inventor – another go at visual programming
  20. Small Business Server “Aurora” based on Windows Home Server and will have hooks to the cloud
  21. Bare-metal recovery of a Hyper-V virtual machine
  22. Dusty PC keeps on keeping on
  23. Changing the motherboard under Windows 7
  24. Don Syme on F#
  25. Setting up RemoteApp and secure FTP on Windows
  26. Ten years of Microsoft .NET – but what about the next ten?
  27. iTunes hacks: whose fault are they?
  28. iPhone 4 Antenna: Apple wrongly calls it a software problem – but it is easily fixed with a case
  29. Kin questions as Microsoft pulls the plug

June 2010

  1. PivotViewer comes to SilverLight – data as visual collections
  2. Windows 8: detailed plans leaked, show Microsoft cycle of invent, fail, copy
  3. Why we love to hate Microsoft
  4. Apple iPhone 4 photo quality for a point-and-shoot snapper
  5. Virtual wi-fi adapter breaks wireless in Windows 7
  6. Two days with Apple iPhone 4
  7. Big browser and RIA news: Canvas comes to Internet Explorer 9
  8. Adobe financials: strong Creative Suite 5 and Flash, claims company undervalued
  9. Office 2010 install hassles
  10. Novell’s Michael Meeks downbeat on OpenOffice.org project
  11. Office and Windows Live SkyDrive – don’t miss unlucky Clause 13
  12. Adobe LiveCycle and the Apple problem
  13. Flash and AIR for Windows Phone 7 by mid 2011?
  14. Speeding page load with dynamic JavaScript
  15. Native code interop in Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight
  16. Microsoft TechEd 2010 wrap-up: cloud benefits, cloud sceptics
  17. Windows Phone 7: is it really consumer?
  18. Windows gets thinner – a comeback for the thin client?
  19. USB devices and Hyper-V – remote client yes, host no
  20. Serena flip-flops: goes Google, then back to Microsoft
  21. Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie at All things Digital – a poor performance
  22. Review: Web Design for Developers by Brian Hogan
  23. Switching from Windows will not protect your data, says Trusteer CEO
  24. On Microsoft: is the sky falling? Remember Netware?
  25. Reviewing the Logitech Squeezebox Touch

May 2010

  1. What chance for MeeGo in the age of the iPad?
  2. iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases
  3. BBC iPlayer goes social
  4. Google Chrome Mac and Linux arrives – may hurt Firefox more than Safari
  5. Farewell to Becta
  6. My first Google Chrome Web Application
  7. A great day for Android at Google I/O; not convinced by Google TV
  8. Google advances its platform – or should that be advances the Web?
  9. What is happening with Silverlight on Intel Moblin/Meego?
  10. Microsoft sues Salesforce.com for patent infringement – but why?
  11. What next for Embarcadero Delphi? Roadmap with Mac, Linux support published.
  12. Adobe’s campaign against Apple misses the target
  13. Java versus C/C++ performance – which is really faster?
  14. SharePoint 2010 web launch delivers blank web page
  15. Office 2010: the SharePoint factor
  16. Linux users will need a Microsoft Office license to use Office Web Apps
  17. Six abandoned features from the history of Microsoft Office
  18. Adobe’s Kevin Lynch: we’re focusing on everybody else
  19. Exchange 2007: ESEUTIL beats the wizard
  20. Word 2010 ugly font in .doc format
  21. A business web site implemented entirely in Silverlight
  22. After Apple’s Flash ban, what next for Adobe?

April 2010

  1. Steve Jobs saying Flash is bad does not make it so
  2. Office Web Apps better then Open Office for .docx on Linux
  3. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx great as ever, no game changer
  4. Apple no longer loves Mac developers
  5. HP hedges mobile bets by buying Palm and webOS
  6. VMforce: Salesforce partners VMware to run Java in the cloud
  7. Spotify goes social with Facebook, supports local music library
  8. Microsoft – make up your mind about Moonlight
  9. DevExpress merges its Silverlight and WPF UI controls, says VS 2010 is light years ahead
  10. Keeping track of Microsoft financials
  11. Google flexes page rank muscles, hits Daily Express?
  12. First look Outlook 2010 RTM – speed good, conversation view bad
  13. Office 2010 offers choice of Open Document or Microsoft XML formats
  14. Microsoft warns against installing 64-bit Office 2010 unless you really need it
  15. Mad or brilliant? Google Chrome OS will print via the cloud
  16. Adobe no longer investing in Flash compiler for iPhone, sings Android praises
  17. Microsoft Expression Blend is too hard to learn
  18. Silverlight (and AIR) for MeeGo Linux coming in October?
  19. Silverlight 4 vs Silverlight 3: a little bit faster?
  20. Silverlight 4.0 released to the web; tools still not final
  21. Review: The Who – Greatest Hits Live
  22. Intel’s compiler is best for AMD too says software director
  23. Rethinking netbook vs laptop
  24. Magazine chief: iPad users – prepare to be retrained
  25. Apple locks down its platform just a little bit more
  26. Apple’s impact on Flash penetration
  27. Apple banning Flash applications from iPhone 4.0? That stinks.
  28. Dancing on a pin: Microsoft belatedly answers Open XML critics
  29. Book Reviews: Programming F# and Beginning F#
  30. No Flash on iPad? No problem – we’ll redesign the site says NPR and others
  31. Anders Hejlsberg on functional programming, programming futures
  32. Slow JavaScript on Apple iPad?
  33. Jewels from the loft: launch of Delphi, Netscape’s Constellation, HTML to die, Longhorn for developers
  34. Review: Broken bells
  35. Microsoft accused of failure to observe Open XML standards process
  36. Android the new Windows?

March 2010

  1. Embarcadero All-access: a better way to deploy developer tools?
  2. Sony locks down the PS3 – removes Other OS support from all models
  3. Building for multiple mobile platforms with one codebase
  4. Bill Buxton, Windows Phone 7 hits at Mix10, say attendees
  5. Adobe news: Flash Builder 4, Creative Suite 5, quarterly results
  6. UK government’s open source commitment words not deeds says Ingres VP
  7. Google’s privacy campaign, and three ways in which Google gets your data
  8. Windows Phone 7 emulator yields its secrets
  9. Visual Studio software factories to emerge from Microsoft deep freeze
  10. Microsoft playing HTML 5 standards game alongside Silverlight game
  11. No native code development on Windows Phone 7 says Microsoft – so what about Flash?
  12. Microsoft copies Apple with Windows Phone app lock-in?
  13. Windows Phone 7 developer story unveiled at Mix10
  14. The two specifications of HTML 5.0: WHAT WG vs W3C
  15. QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things
  16. Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report
  17. Penguin’s Apple love-in
  18. Functional programming, NOSQL themes at QCon London
  19. The Windows Netbook experience: Toshiba NB300
  20. Why programmers should study Microsoft’s random failure and not trust Google search
  21. Microsoft maybe gets the cloud – maybe too late
  22. Windows Phone 7 incompatibility may drive developers elsewhere
  23. Microsoft’s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction
  24. Peter Gabriel’s high-res music bargain with scratch my back
  25. What next for the BBC and its world-beating website?
  26. AVI ADM 9.1 loudspeaker review – should we all go active?
  27. Microsoft .NET gotchas revealed by Visual Studio team
  28. Flash 10.1 mobile roadmap confusion, Windows phone support far off
  29. Google Chrome usage growing fast; Apple ahead on mobile web

February 2010

  1. Windows trackpad annoyances: disappearing pointer, auto clicking
  2. Fragmentation and the RIA wars: Flash is the least bad solution
  3. VMWare: the cloud is private
  4. What’s on at Mix 2010 – some surprises as Microsoft talks standards
  5. Mono Tools for Visual Studio: code on Windows, run on Linux
  6. Microsoft rolls out its browser choice update – but which is really the best?
  7. Windows Phone 7 development rumours abound
  8. Why I don’t want to view bbc.co.uk through an app
  9. Google’s strategy unveiled: a little bit of everything you do
  10. Eric Schmidt: we can literally know everything
  11. Visual Studio 2010 testers unhappy with help
  12. Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft’s partner problem
  13. Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo
  14. Flash developers are now mobile developers
  15. Miserable user experience continues with Windows 7
  16. Buzz buzz – Google profile nonsense
  17. XML literals come to PHP via Facebook: XHP
  18. Should IT administration be less annoying?
  19. Visual Studio 2010 RC arrives with go-live license
  20. Palm Ares: an online IDE for WebOS development
  21. Pros and cons of Adobe’s LiveCycle services in the cloud
  22. Will your laptop run Windows 7?
  23. Google storage 10 times cheaper than Azure – but not as cheap as Skydrive
  24. CDs to downloads: the noose tightens
  25. Adobe Flash getting faster on the Mac
  26. What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 – more than you may realise
  27. Adobe Flash vs Apple iPad: RIA in the balance
  28. Amazon gives in to Macmillan thanks to power of Apple

January 2010

  1. Apple’s proxy war with Amazon over ebook pricing and market
  2. Windows 7 booms for Microsoft, everything else is flat
  3. Apple’s lock-in works. Can anyone improve on App Store?
  4. Apple iPad vs Windows Tablet vs Google Chrome OS
  5. The insecurity of Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode
  6. The mystery of the slow Exchange 2007: when hard-coded values come back to haunt you
  7. A Silverlight UI for Windows Mobile 7, backward compatibility in doubt
  8. Windows Azure is too expensive for small apps
  9. Silverlight 4 with COM can do anything – on Windows
  10. Why F# rather than IronPython in Visual Studio 2010?
  11. A note to RSS subscribers
  12. The end of Code Access Security in Microsoft .NET
  13. What does Ribbon Hero say about Microsoft Office?
  14. Fixing a WordPress plugin setting
  15. Government security advice is misguided; switching browsers will not make you safe
  16. BRIAN ENO LIKES ABBA, thinks music business is a passing phase
  17. SharePoint Explorer View hassles show benefits of cloud storage
  18. New HP and Microsoft agreement commits $50 million less than similar 2006 deal
  19. Crazy Microsoft stuff
  20. Store any type of file in Google Apps – in effect, GDrive
  21. Going Mobile
  22. Windows Presentation Foundation now ready, too late
  23. Technology trends: Silverlight, Flex little use says Thoughtworks as it Goes Google
  24. Seven years of blogging, and a redesign
  25. What’s wrong with Microsoft Hotmail?
  26. Joining the Smartphone dots
  27. How Intel’s compiler underperforms on other CPUs: artificial impairment versus failure to optimise

2009 307

December 2009

  1. A year of blogging: another crazy year in tech
  2. Browser wars: IE loses 12% market share in 2009, Germany hates it
  3. More patent nonsense: Microsoft loses in Office custom XML appeal
  4. Splashtop: the pragmatic alternative to ChromeOS
  5. Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell
  6. What is the future of Microsoft Small Business Server?
  7. US Federal Trade Commission sues Intel
  8. Adobe financials and the future of packaged software
  9. Reflections on Microsoft PDC 2009
  10. When backups fail
  11. The virtual Small Business Server 2008 backup problem
  12. Salesforce Chatter: Twitter-like status updates for the Enterprise
  13. How Microsoft adds COM to everything
  14. Review: Sansa’s iPod alternative
  15. Fear of Google
  16. Importing folders to SharePoint
  17. Google Gears out, HTML 5 in: what this means for offline web apps

November 2009

  1. How many people buy software from sites like this?
  2. A few observations on King Crimson: The Court of the Crimson King
  3. Hyper-V VMs can fail to start if the host is copying a large file
  4. Wrestling with Windows Server Core
  5. Hands on with Intel Moblin
  6. Chrome OS: will Google keep its vision?
  7. COM automation in Silverlight 4 is not an “edge case”
  8. Google Chrome OS – astonishing
  9. PDC day two: Silverlight 4 and a free laptop
  10. Silverlight 4 ticks all the boxes, questions remain
  11. PDC day one: Windows in the cloud
  12. A critical PDC for Microsoft
  13. Xobni makes its point on the streets of LA
  14. Have Windows OEM vendors learnt anything from Apple?
  15. Google’s new language: Go
  16. Surveys are useless
  17. Love and hate for Microsoft Small Business Server
  18. Migrating to Hyper-V 2008 R2
  19. Sophos Windows 7 anti-virus test tells us nothing we don’t already know
  20. The cloud in education: Google Apps vs Live@Edu
  21. Ubuntu Linux: the agony and the ecstasy
  22. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: a great deal for Windows virtualization

October 2009

  1. Windows activation annoyances – not one but two
  2. Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver
  3. Miguel de Icaza on eight years of Mono, its future, and the Silverlight desktop
  4. Los Angeles chooses Google over Exchange for email – who will follow?
  5. MySQL comes to Amazon’s cloud. Anyone for Quadruple Extra Large?
  6. WPF not Windows Forms gets the Windows 7 love
  7. Microsoft will document the Outlook file format; users would rather it just worked better
  8. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 – a simply huge release
  9. Salesforce.com partners with Adobe for Flash Builder for Force.com
  10. Microsoft quarterly results: server and tools shine, overall decline
  11. Web advertising goes outside: digital signage using force.com and Media RSS
  12. A year of writing about Windows 7
  13. Traditional IT is a scam, says Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, introducing Service Cloud 2
  14. A year with Windows 7
  15. Blast from the past: how Adobe praised XAML at PDC 2003
  16. Visual Studio 2010 to launch March 22 with Azure, Team Foundation Server for all
  17. Is Apple iPhone now unstoppable in the mobile platform wars?
  18. Silverlight data, image upload example code
  19. IntelliJ IDEA goes free and open source
  20. Microsoft says it will recover Sidekick data – but we still need to know more
  21. Qt goes mobile, gets bling, aims for broader appeal
  22. Guardian ungagging demonstrates power of Twitter (again)?
  23. From Flash to Qt: different tech, same themes
  24. Rentokil Initial adopting Google Apps – largest deployment yet, apparently
  25. The Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 09
  26. When the unthinkable happens: Microsoft/Danger loses customer data
  27. Adobe’s chameleon Flash shows its enterprise colours
  28. Adobe hoping to marginalise Flash-free iPhone
  29. Three reasons why Adobe Flash is hated
  30. Adobe uses Amazon platform for cloud LiveCycle ES2
  31. Web video ascendant as Flash goes mobile
  32. Book review: Web 2.0 Architectures
  33. Apple’s iPod Touch gaming device
  34. Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

September 2009

  1. UK lagging rest of Europe in open source adoption
  2. Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved
  3. Flash spell check developer upset by competition from Adobe Squiggly
  4. Hands On with Microsoft Security Essentials – terrible name, but product looks good
  5. Hands On with Google Chrome Frame
  6. Microsoft, Moonlight and open source
  7. Microsoft brings Silverlight – not Mono – to Linux via Intel
  8. Native API coming to Adobe AIR 2.0
  9. Intel gets into the App Store game – but where does Silverlight fit in?
  10. Adobe’s new social platform for ads and apps
  11. Office Web Apps: is Microsoft missing its big opportunity?
  12. Microsoft’s Office Web Apps enter technical preview
  13. Software development trends in emerging markets
  14. London Stock Exchange migrating from .NET to Oracle/UNIX platform
  15. Adobe financials: little change in segment breakdown
  16. Should you swap your laptop hard drive for an SSD?
  17. Sony’s Flash advantage for PlayStation 3 vs Xbox 360
  18. The desktop versus web application debate
  19. The Beatles, iTunes, and 09 09 09
  20. Amazon’s sneakernet for the cloud
  21. O2 router attack shows danger of staying logged in
  22. Why you probably don’t want to buy Microsoft SBS 2008 Premium CALs
  23. Microsoft’s confusing web sites
  24. Why the EU should not worry about Oracle and MySQL
  25. Logitech Squeezebox Radio has social features, unsocial price
  26. 10 Mac alternatives to Windows utilities
  27. Docx on a Mac: still rough without Microsoft Word

August 2009

  1. Apple Snow Leopard and Exchange: the real story
  2. Apple Snow Leopard: why don’t we all use Macs?
  3. Apple, Spotify, Google and iPhone: how to get into App Store
  4. Nokia announces N900, juggles three operating systems
  5. Review: Animal Kingdom – signs and wonders
  6. How sinful is Windows?
  7. Hope for old PCs with Windows 7
  8. Delphi and C++ Builder 2010 are out
  9. Nokia’s Windows Booklet 3G – Anything but Apple?
  10. Adobe to announce Flash, Creative Suite roadmaps at MAX 2009
  11. Review: Here comes the Future by the Honeydrips
  12. Getting picky about the Windows 7 Taskbar – real-world flaws?
  13. Delphi developer virus exposes weakness in anti-virus defences
  14. BBC trying out HTML 5, video element
  15. Hands on Windows 7 multi-touch – will Apple get this right before Microsoft?
  16. Review: Quadrophenia on tour
  17. Fixing a Windows PC with Knoppix
  18. Where next for Adobe ActionScript?
  19. UI design patterns for Rich Internet Applications
  20. Windows 7 tip: use Group by to merge and manage library views
  21. Memory leak bug in useless NVIDIA Windows service
  22. Proof of concept: C#-SQLite running in Silverlight
  23. In-place upgrade adventures with Windows 7
  24. Running Vista Movie Maker in Windows 7
  25. The scandal of PC repair shops
  26. C#-SQLite now published
  27. Google buys On2, plans to integrate video into web platform
  28. Apple is like Microsoft
  29. SQLite C# port raises hopes for a Silverlight local database manager
  30. No more Windows E – Europe will get full Windows 7 plus upgrade editions

July 2009

  1. After Microsoft deal, what next for Yahoo’s developer platform?
  2. Microsoft – Yahoo search deal: 2+2 makes 5, or 3?
  3. Morgan Stanley: why we didn’t use Silverlight for Matrix
  4. Spotify for iPhone looks great – if Apple allows it
  5. Review: Wii Sports Resort and MotionPlus
  6. Microsoft’s new EU Windows 7 proposal – will IE now be the default?
  7. Microsoft reports weak financials, still failing in the cloud
  8. Microsoft’s limited Windows 7 offer a lesson in how to annoy customers?
  9. Death of Popfly shows the dark side of the cloud
  10. Microsoft announces Azure prices, availability, still haunted by legacy
  11. Windows 7 will build the global IT economy, says IDC/Microsoft, or will the Cloud kill it?
  12. Office 2010 puts SharePoint in the centre
  13. Office 2010 pictorial review
  14. Silverlight 3 is out
  15. Google names its Chrome OS partners – including Adobe
  16. The UK government and the cloud: to Google or not to Google?
  17. Is Mono safe to use?
  18. It’s war: Google announces Chrome OS
  19. Symbian appeals to Traveling Geeks: develop for our platform
  20. Clipboard.Clear … oops
  21. Mozilla takes aim at Flash and Silverlight with Firefox 3.5

June 2009

  1. Eclipse survey shows Windows decline
  2. Upgrade to Windows 7 in Europe: confusing as expected
  3. No more Amazon income if you are in North Carolina. Who next?
  4. Silverlight 3 coming to Xbox 360
  5. EU responds to questions on Microsoft’s plans for Windows 7
  6. Windows 7: cheap prices but painful upgrade for EU
  7. Outlook HTML is better broken and safe, than rich and dangerous
  8. Search for virus help highlights lack of authority in Google, Wikipedia
  9. What next for Adobe LiveCycle ES?
  10. Does Visual Basic have a future?
  11. Fixing a VirtualBox Windows XP blue screen
  12. Survey ranks developer tools, and reveals what developers care about most
  13. Adobe “Committed to bringing Flash Player to the iPhone”
  14. Google Apps add-on breaks Outlook features in email wars
  15. Opera Unite: another way to share, another nightmare for digital rights
  16. Embarcadero CEO on cross-platform native code
  17. Adobe’s secret plans for the iPhone – but still no Flash (updated)
  18. Adobe’s cloud office takes shape, gets spreadsheet, goes commercial
  19. Moving Vista to a larger hard drive using built-in backup and restore
  20. For your nightmares: 10 more things which could be unbundled from Windows
  21. Microsoft unbundles Internet Explorer from Windows 7 – in Europe, that is
  22. Local SQL support in Safari vs Google Gears: what is happening?
  23. Bing’s disappearing search share gain in the US
  24. BBC seeks web response from unconnected users
  25. Will Microsoft respond to the JavaScript speed challenge?
  26. Is Safari the world’s fastest browser? You need to test more than just JavaScript
  27. Farewell to Personal Computer World: 30 years of personal computing
  28. Bing, Blind Search and electoral fraud
  29. On Quadrophenia, rock classics, tribute shows, and aging
  30. Cloud Computing survey: more fog than cloud
  31. Windows 7: July RTM, October 22 launch

May 2009

  1. Google Wave: a disruptive approach to collaboration
  2. A few good things about Bing – but where is the webmaster’s guide?
  3. Spotify demos mobile music streaming with offline option – for Android
  4. The battle to be part of the emerging cloud stack: Force.com for Google App Engine
  5. Adobe Presentations goes public
  6. Book Review: IronPython in Action
  7. A few jottings on hi-fi and misleading science
  8. Apple censors iPhone application, threatens developer livelihood
  9. Is high-resolution audio (like SACD) audibly better than CD?
  10. Microsoft having another go at Windows help: Help 3
  11. Friendly to users, hostile to competition: get ready for more app stores
  12. New Visual Studio 2010 beta has WPF editor, Silverlight designer
  13. Adobe’s Flex Builder to Flash Builder name change does not go far enough
  14. Delphi moving towards cross-platform, 64-bit
  15. Exchange 2007 backup to be fixed at last
  16. Yahoo’s mindshare problem
  17. Whither Microsoft Vine?
  18. One thing that is not better in Windows 7: Movie Maker
  19. New York Times switches from WPF/Silverlight to Flash and AIR for Reader 2
  20. Bytemark failure illustrates value of Twitter
  21. Is Zend really the PHP company?
  22. The Compuware tools that are going to Micro Focus
  23. Silverlight: developer win, designer fail?
  24. The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus
  25. Windows 7: why you should keep User Account Control at the highest level
  26. First baby steps for Moonlight 2.0: Silverlight for Linux
  27. Windows 7 XP Mode dialogs confuse virtual with real
  28. the charts they are not a’changing
  29. Flex Builder for Linux on hold: another sign of financial stress at Adobe?

April 2009

  1. OpenDocument comes to Microsoft Word and Excel
  2. Microsoft’s Outlook 2007 SP2 speed report
  3. Windows 7: on sale pre-installed from October 2009
  4. Bob Dylan in Birmingham, April 2009
  5. Signing into Windows Live with CardSpace
  6. Faking synchronous web service calls in Silverlight
  7. A Silverlight database application with image upload
  8. Microsoft disabling USB AutoRun in Windows 7 RC
  9. New in Windows 7 RC: Windows XP Mode, Remote Media Streaming
  10. Microsoft’s quarterly results: will it ever make sense of the cloud?
  11. Ubuntu 9.04 not so jaunty
  12. Parallel Programming: five reasons for caution. Reflections from Intel’s Parallel Studio briefing.
  13. Cannot open the Outlook window – what sort of error message is that?
  14. The end of Sun’s bold open source experiment
  15. What’s new in Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V R2
  16. Is Silverlight the problem with ITV Player? Microsoft, you have a problem.
  17. RIA (Rich Internet Applications): one day, all applications will be like this
  18. Google’s cut-down Java: wanton and irresponsible, or just necessary?
  19. Measure the dynamic range of your CDs and downloads
  20. Google App Engine to be less free: quotas reduced from May 25th
  21. Google App Engine is easier than Windows Azure for getting started
  22. Salesforce.com = CRM + platform?
  23. BT brings Ribbit to the UK via Salesforce.com
  24. Intel network driver 64-bit annoyance: won’t install, won’t uninstall
  25. CSS: a long wait for the aha moment

March 2009

  1. Flash library for Facebook, Silverlight library for MySpace
  2. Open Cloud Manifesto – but from a closed group?
  3. Sys-con vs Aral Balkan in Web 2.0 war over intellectual property
  4. Experts Exchange: a great way to make money on the Web
  5. Microsoft’s hefty Outlook 2007 patch – a performance fix at last?
  6. Tim Bray’s contrarian views on Rich Internet Applications
  7. Leaving Las Vegas: Mix09 wrap-up
  8. How to print in Silverlight out of the browser
  9. Mix09 Day One: Silverlight 3.0 is launched
  10. Cloud computing means exporting your IT infrastructure to the Internet
  11. F#, Enterprise JavaScript at QCon London
  12. QCon London 2009
  13. Mono creeping into the mainstream?
  14. Hands on with ASP.Net Membership, SQL Express and Server 2008
  15. RIA plug-in stats: Flash dominates
  16. Latest steps in the Google dance: brands, or not?
  17. Programming language trends: Flash up, AJAX down?

February 2009

  1. SharpDevelop 3.0: everything .NET from Boo to F#
  2. First screenshots of Visual Studio 2010 UI
  3. How will Microsoft make money from Silverlight?
  4. Squeezebox and Napster – the perfect combination?
  5. Spotify is the new Napster
  6. Hyper-V disk I/O: performance of dynamic vs fixed virtual hard disks
  7. How Hyper-V can seem to lose your data
  8. Have you seen a real JavaFX app yet? Sun’s misleading 100 million claim
  9. QCon next month reports strong registrations
  10. Fixing the Exchange 2007 quarantine – most obscure Outlook operation ever
  11. SharePoint 2007 tip: use Explorer not the browser to upload documents
  12. Is it OK to rip a CD, then sell it?
  13. Google says top two results get most of the hits – but what about ads?
  14. Kaspersky site hacked through SQL injection
  15. The Exchange VSS plug-in for Server 2008 that isn’t (yet)
  16. Mixing Hyper-V, Domain Controller and DHCP server
  17. Hands on with Hyper-V: it’s brilliant
  18. Windows security and the UAC debate: Microsoft misses the point
  19. Farewell to Ensemble Studios and thanks for Age of Empires
  20. Facebook as groupware
  21. Visual Studio 2008 as a JavaScript editor
  22. What’s the deal with Flash and the iPhone?

January 2009

  1. Music Magpie review
  2. Gears of War certificate expiry a reminder to developers: always timestamp signed code
  3. Hands On with Office Live Workspace beta
  4. RIP John Martyn
  5. Adobe Flex community at odds over Fx prefix, lack of collaboration
  6. More RSS madness from Microsoft – this time it’s Live Mail
  7. Comparing digital snaps on a new camera and one five years old
  8. The Foo Fighters at Dreamforce 08
  9. Microsoft showing Silverlight 3 at Mix09
  10. Why are web sites still storing passwords? Monster, USAJobs blunder highlights the risks
  11. Microsoft Expression Web causes PHP error
  12. Office Ribbon in Silverlight – amazing stuff from divelements SandRibbon
  13. DRM-protected epub a good buy?
  14. Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 too expensive for hardware, market
  15. Want Google Earth in your browser? Don’t use Google Chrome.
  16. 10 steps to a well-behaved Windows application
  17. Richard Thompson at the Cambridge Corn Exchange
  18. SQLite developer argues for quick bug disclosure and fixes, despite egg on face
  19. Web app with Silverlight and Virtual Earth
  20. Windows 7 beta image gallery
  21. What happens when you click a Windows 7 taskbar icon?
  22. Apple Dock vs Windows 7 taskbar
  23. Another useless Microsoft search experience
  24. Windows 7 beta 1 performance observations
  25. I’m looking for comments on Windows 7 beta vs XP or Vista
  26. The computer desktop is a faulty abstraction
  27. OpenID embedded into Windows 7?
  28. SharePoint – the good, the bad and the ugly
  29. Performance: Windows 7 fast than Vista, Vista faster than XP
  30. Five things right, five things wrong from Microsoft in 2008
  31. 2008 on IT Writing: browser and OS stats, plus what you’ve been reading
  32. PHP Development Tools 2.0 released, joins official Eclipse “Galileo” release

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