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2026 31
October 2026
- WinUI Reactor: yet another way to code for the Windows desktop
- Dublin Marathon after injury-interrupted training – a surprising sub-4
- A new era of AI-driven application rebuilds – now it is Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop
- Counterfeit Braun shaver heads on eBay
- Deno’s endo – team joins CloudFlare, runtime will be abandoned in one year’s time
- JetBrains posts a loss (but revenue is up), puts spotlight on future of IDEs
- Apple user interface catches me out
September 2026
- Googlebook and Googlebook OS arrive – want one?
- Shopify migrates from React Native to native Android and iOS development, citing AI as enabler
- Why does a MAUI app store data under “User Name” on Windows?
August 2026
- GitHub reliability and scalability: a consequence of AI and too much for free
- Linux on the desktop: growing, but not by as much as some claim
- First steps with MAUI: some friction
- Running Visual Studio 2008 in Windows 11
July 2026
- Can AI write as capably as humans?
- Vercel’s Scriptc is a TypeScript to native code compiler – how did we get here?
- Getting started with Azure Artifact Signing
- Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8: is AI becoming a commodity?
- No Mono in Microsoft’s cross-platform MAUI framework on .NET 11 – and a quick hands-on
- JetBrains Resharper for Visual Studio Code adds C# debugging support
- Notes from the field: when Remote Desktop cannot connect
- Cloudflare’s vinext project reaches beta 1 – not just an AI experiment
- TypeScript 7 is done
- My writing here and elsewhere
- Avalonia UI vs Microsoft’s .NET MAUI
- Microsoft authenticator cannot be backed up for Microsoft or Entra ID accounts
May 2026
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March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
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November 2025
October 2025
- Running for England as a Masters Representative
- Strava sues Garmin for patent infringement, but says it is really about API access
September 2025
- Book review: Run like a Pro (Even if you’re slow) by Matt Fitzgerald and Ben Rosario
- Winchester Half Marathon: hilly, late starting, got my target time
August 2025
June 2025
April 2025
- Adidas Manchester Marathon 2025: second marathon and sub 3:30 achieved
- Creating a secure ASP.Net Core web application with Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) auth by group membership – harder than it should be
March 2025
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December 2024
October 2024
August 2024
- Running book review: The Art of Running Faster by Julian Goater and Don Melvin
- Running book review: Run your best Marathon by Sam Murphy
July 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Fixing a .NET P/Invoke issue on Apple Silicon – including a tangle with Xcode
- Amazon Linux 2023: designed to be disposable
- Amazon Linux 2023 on Hyper-V
February 2024
- New Outlook confusion as connection to Exchange Online or Business Basic mailboxes blocked “due to the license provided by your work or school”
- What is an operating system for? A friend’s Windows 11 rant shows disconnect between vendors and users
- Windows 11 rant: “I replaced Win 11 with Win 10. It was like walking back into my house”
- Garmin vs Apple Watch: why I switched
January 2024
2023 8
December 2023
- A year of running
- The era of tiny PCs: 400g and smaller than a paperback book
- The AWS re:Invent 5K run 2023
October 2023
August 2023
- A mild case of Azure bill shock: is this the most over-priced service on Microsoft’s cloud?
- Windows Server 2022 Essentials – a good deal for small businesses but what is it really?
April 2023
February 2023
2022 21
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
July 2022
- Reimagining Collaboration by Phil Simon
- Web page memory usage: how much is too much?
- Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will not start: a possible fix
- Using an M1 Mac after a lifetime of mainly Windows
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
- Fixing an Xbox controller broken by Elden Ring
- The two key things I do with a new Mac
- Microsoft moves towards UDP in place of TCP for Azure Virtual Desktop, claims lower latency and higher reliability
March 2022
- Thoughtworks: do not choose to develop Single Page Applications by default
- Drupal 7 is the version that refuses to die as the majority of sites have not upgraded
January 2022
- Multi-page ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, and ES JavaScript Modules
- Microsoft’s “new commerce experience” for 365 services: not just price increases
- Converting a scanned image to text in Office 365
- All change for the New Year
- Visual Studio, TypeScript, WebPack and ASP.NET Core: somewhat awkward
- Exchange emails stuck in queue because “message deferred by categorizer agent”- Happy New Year admins!
2021 8
November 2021
July 2021
June 2021
April 2021
- Bang & Olufsen HX wireless headphones: a delight
- HP unhinged, refuses to honour warranty on its defective laptop
March 2021
February 2021
2020 17
December 2020
- Odd behaviour from Azure App Service: production version sometimes serves app from staging slot
- Some of my favourite earbuds and headphones of 2020: part 1
- Her Last Holiday by C L Taylor
November 2020
- Rhys Bowen: A love story for Venice
- A UI lesson: do not ask users to choose between Register and Login
October 2020
- Cyber Privacy by April Falcon Doss
- The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter
- Flashbacks of a Fool, a film inspired by a song
- Debugging Safari on an old iPad
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
- Using Windows 10 on a 4K display: issues in multi-monitor setups
- Developing software for playing bridge
May 2020
March 2020
January 2020
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December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
- Microsoft posts another strong set of results, does not know how to invest its profits
- Xcode on Catalina update hassles
- Marley Stir it up Wireless Turntable: a good introduction to the vinyl revival?
- Just ahead of the launch of Oppo Reno 2, here is a look at Oppo Reno 10x Zoom
September 2019
- Finding the multi-factor authentication and authenticator options in an Office 365 account
- Yamaha’s vinyl revival on display at IFA in Berlin including GT-5000 turntable
- Saving documents in Office 365 desktop applications
July 2019
- Microsoft earnings: strong quarter, but Xbox revenue dives
- Not OK Google
- Chromium and Microsoft annoyances : Dynamics CRM issues like broken downloads, Chromium team “won’t fix”
June 2019
- Two Factor Authentication is great–but what if you lose your phone or have your number hijacked?
- Wrestling with Visual Basic 6 (really!) and how knowledge on the internet gets harder to find
May 2019
- Microsoft’s Pipelines for Azure Kubernetes Service: fixing COPY failed
- Automatic transcription for journalists: still not viable despite Microsoft push for “Modern journalism”
- The future of WPF for developers who need to support Windows 7
- Windows Subsystem for Linux 2: Microsoft’s change of direction delivers better performance, worse integration
- One .NET: unification of .NET for Windows and .NET Core, Xamarin too
- Microsoft Build and the repositioning of Windows
- Microsoft Office and privacy: happy to send what you type to the cloud for analysis?
April 2019
- A post that can save you money: scheduling Azure Virtual Machines for start/stop
- Microsoft Financials: strategic purpose of Github, Teams and PowerApps revealed
- Microsoft Planner: a good task management solution for small teams?
- Stack Overflow survey shows leap in popularity for Visual Studio Code
March 2019
- Hands on with Windows Virtual Desktop
- Progressive Delivery: the next step in DevOps?
- Location Services: GPS-only no longer protects your privacy on Android 9 “Pie”, Huawei / Honor 10
February 2019
- How Windows 10 Ransomware Protection interferes with application installs
- Adding a Visual Studio code workspace to a GitHub repository
- Linksys LPAC1750C, Cloud Manager, and the mystery of the wifi printer that would not print
- Office 365 vs Office 2019 vs LibreOffice: some thoughts
- How Windows 10 Ransomware protection can cause install failures, LibreOffice for example
- Which application platform for desktop Windows apps? Microsoft has stated its official line, but UWP is still not compelling
- Microsoft quarterly financials: strong figures, note LinkedIn and Dynamics numbers
January 2019
- Google’s search monopoly, the decline of organic search and its implications
- OneDrive Upload Blocked and the “Use Office 2016 to sync Office files” setting
- The decline of high end audio at CES and what it says about the audiophile market
- Fixing OneDrive Camera upload on Android
- The best apps for a Windows 10 PC? Disappointing list shows key Windows weakness
- David Bowie Is app: Floating in a most peculiar way
- Unlimited free private repositories come to GitHub
- Desktop development: is Electron the answer, or a tragedy?
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December 2018
- Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
- A glimpse into Microsoft history which goes some way to explaining the decline of Windows
- The end of the Edge browser engine. Another pivotal moment in Microsoft’s history
November 2018
October 2018
- From Big Blue to Big Red? IBM to acquire Red Hat
- Microsoft is making lots of money. Anything else notable in its first quarter financials?
- Windows on a Chromebook? How containers change everything
- Linux Foundation Open Source Summit opens in Edinburgh: Microsoft praised for “facing reality”
- Bob Dylan’s Mondo Scripto work and exhibition in London
- Microsoft’s Windows 10 October 2018 update on hold after some users suffer deleted documents: what to conclude?
- Review: Synology DS119J. Great system but single bay and underpowered hardware make it worth spending a bit more
- Linux applications and .NET Core on a Chromebook makes this an increasingly interesting device
- Microsoft Azure Stack: a matter of compliance
September 2018
- Redesign coming to Outlook for Windows and Mac, but will Microsoft fix what matters most?
- Google search to become even more opaque? From answers to “journeys”
- Microsoft will add an Azure-hosted Windows (and office) Virtual Desktop to Office 365 for small businesses
- Microsoft’s 82 Ignite announcements: what really matters
- Microsoft Office 365 and Google G-Suite: why multi-factor authentication is now essential
- Want to connect PowerBI to Dynamics 365 CRM on-premises? Good luck with the official documentation
- Google Assistant was all over IFA in Berlin. What are the implications?
- Windows Server 2019 Essentials may be Microsoft’s last server offering for small businesses
August 2018
- Where next for Windows Mixed Reality? At IFA, Acer has an upgraded headset at IFA; Dell is showing Oculus Rift
- Just one snag with Bang & Olufsen’s beautiful new Edge speaker system: it is mono
- Adobe announces extensibility for XD design and prototyping tool, integration with Microsoft Teams, Slack and Jira
- SQLite with .NET: excellent but some oddities
- Rumours of a new Mac Mini? It is about time.
- Should you convert your Visual Basic .NET project to C#? Why and why not…
- SQLite adds support for .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
- Audirvana Plus for Windows review: a music player which combines convenience and no-compromise audio
- Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2016/365: part brilliant, part perplexing, part downright sloppy
- Mozilla Firefox and a DNS security dilemma
- All the way from 1997: Compaq PC Companion C140 still works, but as badly as it did on launch
- Another good quarter for Apple, but Huawei growth and Samsung decline is the real Smartphone story
July 2018
- Google announces Cloud Build: CI/CD for the Google Cloud Platform
- Gartner on Mobile App Development Platforms: Kony, Mendix, Microsoft, Oracle and Outsystems the winners
- Microsoft’s strong financials, and some notes on Azure vs AWS and the risks of losing in mobile
- RemObjects Elements: mix and match languages and platforms as you like
- Embarcadero launches free Community Edition of Delphi and C++Builder for mainly non-commercial use
- AWS embraces hybrid cloud? Meet Snowball Edge
- Using the Xamarin WebView for programmatic display of HTML content
- Configuring the Android emulator for Hyper-V
- Hyper-V compatible Android emulator now available
- Microsoft announces free version of Teams, ahead of Inspire partner conference
- Account options when setting up Windows 10, and Microsoft’s enforced insecurity questions
- Surface Go: Microsoft has another go at a budget tablet
- Ubuntu goes minimal (but still much bigger than Alpine Linux), cosies up to Google Cloud Platform
- Pusher: a nice solution for sending messages and notifications to web and mobile apps
- Notes from the Field: dmesg error blocks MySQL install on Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Instant applications considered harmful?
- David Bowie’s Welcome to the Blackout released on CD
- On Microsoft Teams in Office 365, and why we prefer walled gardens to the Internet jungle
- Review: Mixed Up Deluxe CD by the Cure
June 2018
- Amazon offering Linux desktops as a service in WorkSpaces
- Notes from the field: Windows Time Service interrupts email delivery
- Inside Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft’s preferred database manager for its own high-scale applications
- TalkTalk’s new Sagemcom FAST 5364 Router and WiFi Hub
- Ian Hunter talks to BBC Radio 1’s Johnnie Walker
- On Face Unlock
- Manage your privacy online through cookie settings? You must be joking.
- Is Ron Jeffries right about the shortcomings of Agile?
- Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2019, but pleasing developers is a tough challenge
- Asus Project Precog dual-screen laptop: innovation in PC hardware, but missing the keyboard may be too high a price
- Microsoft and GitHub, and will GitHub get worse?
May 2018
- Case sensitive directories now possible in Windows Explorer as well as in the Windows Subsystem for Linux
- OnePlus 6: another contender for best value premium smartphone
- Honor 10 AI smartphone launched in London, and here are my first impressions
- “An invalid name request was made”: an ugly error from the Windows 10 app platform
- What is happening with desktop development on Windows and will WPF be upgraded at last?
- Cosmos DB or SQL Server? Do you need Kubernetes? VM or App Service? A guide to Azure worth checking out
- Hands On with Remote Assist, a compelling HoloLens application, at Microsoft Build
- Chromebooks get more useful as Linux comes to Chrome OS
- Microsoft Build: Azure-powered Drones, another go with Kinect, and other key announcements
- As Microsoft Build 2018 begins, what is happening to Microsoft’s developer platform?
April 2018
- Notes from the field: “cannot open the Outlook window” in Windows 10. OneDrive the culprit?
- Microsoft financials: Azure revenue grows 93% year on year
- The Future of PowerShell:
- David Bowie: Welcome to the Blackout
- Review: Orbitsound Dock E30 one-box audio system with wireless charging aims to fix the problems of stereo
- What is Azure Sphere?
- Why Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 and Windows Server? And what are the implications?
- Sandy Denny: 5 Classic Albums
- A Windows 10 annoyance: controlling autoplay
March 2018
- What is ML? What is AI? Why does it matter?
- QCon London: the Ethics track and the psychology of software
- A week of QCon: introduction
- Kaspersky encrypted connection scanning breaks ADFS login, internet-facing Dynamics CRM
February 2018
- Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and the media
- Should you go to Microsoft Build?
- Microsoft introduces new feedback system for technical documentation, will delete existing comments
- Setting up PHP for development on Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10
- The price of free Wi-Fi, and is it a fair deal?
- What the Blazor! After Silverlight, .NET in the browser reappears by another route
- HackerRank survey shows programming divides in more ways than one
- C# and .NET: good news and bad as Python rises
- Strong financial results from Microsoft as it aims for breadth of services
January 2018
- Which .NET framework for Windows: UWP, WPF or Windows Forms?
- Spectre and Meltdown woes continue as Intel confesses to broken updates
- Office 2016 now “built out of one codebase for all platforms” says Microsoft engineer
- The mysterious microcode: Intel is issuing updates for all its CPUs from the last five years but you might not benefit
- Windows Mixed Reality: Acer headset review and Microsoft’s (lack of) content problem
- Why patching to protect against Spectre and Meltdown is challenging
- Let’s Encrypt: a quiet revolution
- New year, new web site
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December 2017
November 2017
- Google’s Digital Garage, hosted by UK City Councils
- The Scalford Hi-Fi show is dead – long live the Kegworth “Europe’s biggest Hi-Fi enthusiasts show”?
- The annoyance of mistaken email addresses – an example from Netflix
- Quick thoughts on Salesforce and Google Cloud Platform alliance
- One thing that’s worse in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: uncontrollable application auto-start
- A quick look at Surface Book 2: powerful but heavy
September 2017
- Which Azure Stack is right for you?
- Microsoft announces Office 2019, Exchange Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019
- Microsoft Ignite: where next for Microsoft’s cloud? The Facebook of business?
- VMware Cloud on AWS: a game changer? What about Microsoft’s Azure Stack?
- Generating code for simple SQL Server data access without Entity Framework, works with .NET Core
August 2017
- Nokia 8: a phone from the new Nokia brand that you might actually want
- Microsoft updates the .NET stack with .NET Core 2.0 and updated Visual Studio. Should you use it?
- An overreaching Office 365 integration from Sage
July 2017
- The downside of “Windows as a service”: disappearing features (and why I will miss Paint)
- Microsoft Edge browser crashing soon after launch: this time, it’s IBM Trusteer Rapport to blame
- Unhealthy Identity synchronization Notification: a trivial solution (and Microsoft’s useless troubleshooter)
- Licensing Azure Stack: it’s complicated (and why Azure Stack is the iPad of servers)
- Thoughts on Petya/NotPetya and two key questions. What should you do, and is it the fault of Microsoft Windows?
June 2017
- No more infrastructure roles for Windows Nano Server, and why I still like Server Core
- F-Secure Sense: a success and a failure (and why you should not rely on your anti-virus software)
- F-Secure Sense Firewall first look: a matter of trust
- The Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter Story
- How to remove the WINS server feature from Windows Server
- OneDrive Files on Demand is back – will users get confused? And how does it look to applications?
- Fixing “couldn’t parse private ssl key” in Dovecot
- The threat from insecure “security” cameras and how it goes unnoticed by most users
- Server shipments decline as customers float towards cloud
- How to use Vi: a minimalist guide
- Fixing Logitech Media Server for Microsoft Edge – and playing DSD
May 2017
- PowerShell documentation stubs: frustrating for users
- Windows S: another go at locking down Windows, but the Store is not ready and making it ready is a challenge
- Xamarin Challenge shows bumps in Microsoft’s path to cross-platform mobile
April 2017
- Microsoft financials: cloud good, Surface down, and “We had no material phone revenue this quarter”
- Microsoft needs to fix its Android emulator
- Email hassles with migration to Windows 10 – if you use Windows Live Mail
March 2017
- Disabling automatic update restarts in Windows Server 2016
- Try RegBot
- How to get a Bitlocker recovery key on Android
- QCon London 2017: IoT insecurity, serverless computing, predicting technical debt, and why .NET Core depends on a 36,000 line C++ file
February 2017
January 2017
- New Office 365 OneDrive for Business sync client now supports team sites
- Publishing Exchange with pfSense
- Microsoft Office 365 Activation Hassles
- More on MQA and Tidal: a few observations
- The MQA enigma: audio breakthrough or another false dawn?
- From Windows Embedded to cloud: Microsoft announces the Connected Vehicle Platform
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December 2016
- Ripping vinyl with the Plato home entertainment system
- Amazon Web Services opens London data centers
- Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech
November 2016
- Microsoft to release Visual Studio for the Mac – except it is not
- Mio MiVue 688: record your driving
- A portrait of Bowie by Brian Hiatt
- Hands on with Microsoft’s ADConnect
October 2016
- Meizu M3 Max: Android 6.0 phablet, good value if you don’t mind Flyme OS
- Review: Libratone Zipp Mini
- Microsoft improves Windows Subsystem for Linux: launch Windows apps from Linux and vice versa
- Microsoft sets Visual Studio LightSwitch to off
- Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature
- Notes from the field: Office 365 Cutover Migration for a small business and the mysteries of mail-enabled users
September 2016
- Microsoft at Ignite: Building on Office 365, getting more like Google, Adobe mysteries and FPGA magic
- Azure Stack on show at Microsoft Ignite
- Microsoft pivot: Ignite is now its key conference
- On GitHub and GitHub Universe
- UK South or UK West? Microsoft opens new data centres for Azure and Office 365
- HP’s Elite Slice and the problem with modular PCs
August 2016
- Asus ZenWatch 3 prompts the question: is it time yet for smartwatches?
- Sweetlabs Android App Services: what is it?
- Honor 8 smartphone first look
- Time for another look at “pure .NET”
- Wind up your iPhone–this is not a wind up!
- Notes from the field: Office 365 pain following Windows 10 upgrade
- The battle to own Windows Explorer shell overlay icons, or why your OneDrive green ticks have stopped working
July 2016
- Dear Google, since you provide no contact options, here is my problem
- Microsoft financials April-June 2016: on track but continued drift away from consumers
- What to do when Outlook is stuck on “processing”
- AWS Summit London 2016: no news but strong content, and a little bit of Echo
- Fake TalkTalk Frequently Asked Questions
- The case of the disappearing Azure AD application registration
- Mo-Fi headphones from Blue: distinctive design delivers excellent sound
- Office 365 users: beware Outlook’s mysterious Not Implemented error
- Using Strongswan as a VPN client – and a Windows Firewall gotcha
June 2016
May 2016
- Last thoughts on Windows Phone
- How to run Android Studio on Windows without disabling Hyper-V
- Elvis costello at Warwick Arts Centre, 9 May 2016
April 2016
- Microsoft Financials: steady, but a turning point as on-premises server business declines
- Huawei P9 smartphone launched in London: first look review
March 2016
- Exploring David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?”
- Raspberry Pi does Audio at the Wigwam HiFi Show 2016
- Reflections on QCon London 2016 – part one
- re-examining Song for bob dylan by david bowie
- Microsoft SQL Server is coming to Linux. What are the implications for Windows Server?
- Bowie’s sublime blackstar: why you should buy the vinyl
February 2016
- Outlook 2016 attachment mysteries and annoyances
- Microsoft Office 365 and desktop friction
- New Delphi and C++ Builder Roadmap promises Linux server support
January 2016
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November 2015
October 2015
- Blocked from Google search: agree our terms or else go away
- Microsoft financials July-Sept 2015: decline of Windows hits home, cloud rises
- Unfaithful music & Disappearing ink by Elvis Costello
- Shadows in the night by Bob dylan
September 2015
August 2015
- Upgrading a PC to SSD (Crucial MX200)
- Notes from the field: unexpected villain breaks Dynamics CRM and IIS on Windows Server 2012
- Windows 10: My Surface Pro is mocking me
July 2015
- Using Explorer as an alternate Start menu for Windows 10 to work around missing entries
- Windows 10
- Microsoft financials April-June 2015: loss from Nokia write-down, comments on future direction
- Microsoft completes Visual Studio 2015
- Hands On: Xbox One Game Streaming to Windows 10
- Satya Nadella positions Windows Phone as small PC, Microsoft retreats from Phone business
- Windows Phone puzzles: strategy, what strategy?
June 2015
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 update brings Stock images, Android apps, video magic
- How to overcome “A required drive partition is missing” in Windows 8.1 reset
- DatAshur encrypted drives: protect your data but be sure to back it up too
- Installing Windows 10 on Surface 3 with Windows To Go
- On Bitcoin and the future of digital currency
May 2015
- Running ASP.NET 5.0 on Nano Server preview
- Cloud storage sums: how does the cost compare to backing up to your own drives?
- Windows 10: Moving Windows into the mobile and app era take 2, and why Windows 8 is not so bad
- HoloLens: a developer hands-on
April 2015
- Compile Android Java, iOS Objective C apps for Windows 10 with Visual Studio: a game changer?
- Visual Studio Code: an official Microsoft IDE for Mac, Windows, Linux
- The Watch
- Microsoft financials Jan-March 2015
- Reflections on BoxDEV: keeping ahead of SharePoint, Changing Microsoft, and Eric Schmidt on Surveillance
- Inside Microsoft: Ex design lead gives perspective on Metro, Office, iOS and Android battles
- AWS Summit London: cloud growth, understanding Lambda, Machine Learning
- Quick thoughts on Surface 3 from a long-term Surface user
- Why Windows Server is going Nano: think automation, Cloud OS
- StackOverflow developer survey shows decline in C#, Windows
March 2015
- Delphi and RAD Studio 2015 roadmap: no Universal Apps?
- Devialet’s Phantom audio system on show in Barcelona
- Mobile World Congress 2015 round-up: MediaTek Helio, Samsung Galaxy S6, Boyd smell sensor, Jolla Sailfish 2.0, Alcatel OneTouch devices, ZTE eye scanning, and Ford’s electric bike
- Imagination at Mobile World Congress 2015: what is the strategy?
- Windows 10 at Mobile World Congress 2015: a quick reflection
- Microsoft and Salesforce: Office 365 integration in Salesforce 1
- Notes from the field: when Outlook 2010 cannot connect to Office 365
February 2015
- Microsoft publishes new OneDrive API with SDK, sample apps
- Playing native DSD with Raspberry Pi 2 and Volumio
- Universal Apps: a look at Microsoft’s first efforts on Phone and PC
- Restoring a system image backup on Windows 7 when system recovery fails
- Microsoft open sources heart of .NET: CoreCLR runtime now on GitHub
January 2015
- Microsoft risks enterprise credibility by pushing out insecure mobile Outlook
- Microsoft Financials
- Why Microsoft is hard to love
- The Windows 10 web browser story: it’s complex
- Windows 10 and HoloLens: quick thoughts and questions following the January reveal
- Microsoft’s Lumia 400, the cheapest Windows Phones yet, but what is the brand becoming?
- Mr Tambourine Man
- Reserved IPs and other Microsoft Azure annoyances
- Review: Synology DS415+ Network Attached Storage
- So that was 2014: Samsung stumbles, all change for Microsoft, Sony hack, more cloud, more mobile
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December 2014
- SSD storage has come to Azure VMs, along with faster Azure SQL
- Windows Phone wobbles: why users are losing heart
- Google’s official Android Studio is at version 1.0
- What is .NET Core, “the foundation of all future .NET platforms”?
- On the Register in November: Windows desktop development woes, inside Amazon Aurora, more
November 2014
- A nearly perfect boombox: take your audio on the road with TDK’s Trek Max
- Quick reflections on Amazon re:Invent, open source, and Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft’s Azure outage: a troubling account of what went wrong
- Microsoft promises to fix OneDrive sync in Windows 10, with one engine for Business and Consumer
- Microsoft kills best Windows OneDrive feature in new Windows 10 preview
- Amazon Reinvent: new products announced including Aurora database with claimed performance 5 times that of MySQL
- Microsoft takes its .NET runtime open source and cross-platform, announces new C++ compilers for iOS and Android: unpacking today’s news
- An Azure Web Site is a VM which supports multiple applications
- Arcam’s high-end Solo soundbar: fixing TV sound
- Writing for The Register
October 2014
- Microsoft Band: do you want to track your health? and with a Microsoft device?
- Microsoft financials show robust performance, Office in transition to subscription, both cloud and server growth
- Naim strives for the mass market with mu-so
- How is Microsoft Azure doing? Some stats from Satya Nadella and Scott Guthrie
- Coding Office for cross platform: Microsoft explains its approach
- Xamarin Evolve: developers enjoy the buzz around cross-platform coding with C#
- Adobe opens up Creative Cloud to app developers
- VLC is coming to Windows Phone
- Is this why it is Windows 10 (not 9): avoiding Windows 95 detection?
- Ian Hunter and the Rant band at the Stables, 30 Sept 2014
September 2014
- Review: Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 13
- LibreOffice is four years old, plans Android version
- Testing mobile apps: Xamarin goes live with Test Cloud for iOS and Android (but no Windows Phone)
- Android apps on Chrome: how it works and what it may become
- Foobar2000 goes mobile: funding secured for iOS, Android and Windows Phone versions
- Microsoft Azure: new preview portal is “designed like an operating system” but is it better?
- Microsoft OneDrive and OneDrive for Business: a guide for the perplexed
- Microsoft releases WinJS cross-browser JavaScript library but why?
- Lifetime registration as a Windows Store developer, now from £12
- Review: Kingston Predator 1TB USB stick, huge capacity but at a price
- Microsoft integrates Azure websites with hybrid cloud
- Windows “9”: forget the Start menu, consider the apps
- Book review: Professional ASP.NET MVC 5. Is this the way to learn ASP.NET MVC?
- Microsoft introduces a new 2D graphics API for the Windows Runtime
- IFA 2014 report: Wearables, Windows 8 and Phone, Android TV, Amazon FireTV, lots of phones, Spotify Connect
- Alcatel OneTouch on plans for Windows Phone OS tablets
- Another go at Windows 8 from Microsoft’s hardware partners but strategy puzzles remain
- The Microsoft Screen Sharing for Lumia Phones HD10: silly name, nice product
- Microsoft’s glowing Lumia wireless charge pad can show alerts, but we get too many
- Curating an app store: does Apple have it right?
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7 (Delphi, C++Builder): is seven the magic number?
August 2014
- Future of music: files are over says WME music boss (or, why Apple bought Beats)
- Microsoft’s broken Windows Store: an unconvincing official response and the wider questions
- Review: Vibe FLI Over headphones with “Extreme bass”
- Hands on with Surface Pro 3
- Xamarin announces large round of funding, plans international expansion
- Bing Developer Assistant adds code samples to Visual Studio IntelliSense, with mixed results
- When Windows 8 will not boot: the Automatic Repair disaster
- Asus bets on everything with new UK product launches for Android, Google Chromebook and Microsoft Windows
- Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections
- Should you use Entity Framework for .NET applications?
July 2014
- Do you need the new Raspberry Pi B+?
- Richard Thompson solo acoustic at the Warwick Folk Festival, 24 July 2014
- The UK government is adopting Open Document: some observations
- RemObjects previews native Apple Mac IDE for C#, .NET, Oxygene
- Microsoft Financials show cloud growth, Nokia loss
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promises “One Windows” in place of three, but should that be two?
- Farewell Nokia X? Not quite, but the signs are clear as Microsoft bets on Universal Apps
- A note on Azure storage and downloading large files
- Microsoft StorSimple brings hybrid cloud storage to the enterprise, but what about the rest of us?
- Amazon Mobile SDK adds login, data sync, analytics for iOS and Android apps
- Microsoft repositions for a post-Windows client world
- Review: Kingston HyperX Cloud headset, excellent sound and comfort
- Supporting developers: how could Microsoft improve?
- Developing an ASP.NET MVC app with Azure Active Directory: an ordeal
- Notes from the field: putting Azure Blob storage into practice
June 2014
- Google I/O 2014: impressive momentum, no wow moments
- Embarcadero AppMethod: another route to cross-platform mobile, now with C++ support
- Review: Sony SRS-X9 high-resolution network music player
- Microsoft Azure: growing but still has image problems
- Adobe focuses on iPad (not Android) with new mobile Creative Cloud apps
- Resilience is not backup: how Codespaces.com lost its data and its business
- A tale of two Lumias: snaps on a Lumia 630 versus a Lumia 1020
- Review: Nokia Lumia 630 – a lot of smartphone for the money
- Having it both ways: can Microsoft equally back Windows Phone and “Any device”?
- Review: Sonocent Audio Notetaker, making sense of recorded interviews and meetings
- Visual Studio “14” announced, preview available with “Roslyn” open source compiler
- Soundgarden’s Superunknown in DTS virtual 11.1 surround-sound: better than stereo for your mobile listening?
- The Microsoft Apartment: full of screens and an uninvited cucumber
- Apple’s Swift programming language: easy coding for OS X and iOS at last?
May 2014
- Microsoft Hyper-V vs VMWare: is System Center the weak point?
- Xamarin 3.0 brings iOS visual design to Visual Studio, cross-platform XAML, F#, NuGet and more
- Hands on with Xamarin 3.0: a cross-platform breakthrough for Visual Studio
- Event report: Sony demonstrates the high-res audio HAP-Z1ES player at the Audio Lounge in London
- Fixing a low-tech computer attack by fake “Microsoft”
- Google, Bing: time to junk these parasitic download sites
- On Microsoft Surface: premium hardware, declining vision
- Microsoft Small Business Server to Server Essentials R2: not a smooth transition
- Hands on with Cordova in Visual Studio
- Review: Velodyne vFree wireless headphones
- Office, Azure Active Directory, and mobile: the three pillars of Microsoft’s cloud
- The problem for Windows Phone
- Acer’s R7 the most twisty Windows 8 tablet/laptop yet
- Review: Power Cover for Microsoft Surface tablets
- Review: Nuance Dragon Dictate 4 for the Mac
- Microsoft’s new open source direction for C# and .NET (and native compilation too): Anders Hejlsberg explains
- Brief reflections on 50 years of BASIC
April 2014
- Keep your CDs and DVDs: how the UK copyright law is changing but still does not make sense
- XAML and C#, or HTML and WinJS for Windows Store, Universal and cross platform apps?
- Getting animated: basics in Windows Store apps
- Microsoft completes Nokia acquisition: what now for Windows Phone?
- Microsoft financials: strong quarter especially in cloud services. We have a very different way to think about Windows says Nadella
- A little bit of magic from Adobe PhoneGap: instant app preview on a device
- Windows problems: new users cannot log in, SQL Server 2014 install fails
- Notes on styling a Windows Store app ListView to vary item appearance according to the data
- Hands on: SQL Server 2014 with data files in Azure Blob Storage
- Puppet and Chef come to Windows Azure
- Fixing failed wifi on Surface Pro
- Review: Velodyne vLeve on-ear headphones
- A quick hands-on with native code compilation for .NET
- Microsoft Build 2014: what happened
- Microsoft Build goes nuts over Xamarin’s C# and .NET for iOS and Android
- What is a Universal Windows App?
- Saving Windows the sequel: the Return of the Start
- Microsoft announces the return of the Start menu to Windows 8 – again
- Microsoft Build Sessions published: Windows Phone XAML and HTML/JS apps, new Azure APIs and more
- Review: When computing got personal by Matt Nicholson
March 2014
- A close look at Word for the iPad. What is included and what is missing?
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces Microsoft Office for iPad, talks up Azure Active Directory and Office 365 development
- Flash developers fret as Adobe doubles down on PhoneGap
- Entering Microsoft’s XAML labyrinth: is it worth it?
- How to crash your Windows Store XAML app
- Amazon AWS and the continuing trend towards cloud services. Desktops next?
- SQL Server 2014 is done: Hekaton, Azure integration
- Neil Young’s Pono: an advance in digital music?
- Running WordPress on Windows Azure
- Fun with amplifiers: classic Naim versus modern Yamaha integrated
- Embarcadero pre-announces AppMethod cross-platform development tool: Delphi repackaged?
- Why you cannot prove software correctness: report from QCon London
- Privacy and online data sharing is a journey into the unknown: report from QCon London
- Why Microsoft is turning to Android to promote its cloud services
- The problem with backpedalling on Windows 8: it is the wrong direction
February 2014
- Wearables or swearables? Mobile World Congress panel raises the questions but not the answers
- X is for Xamarin: One company that is pleased to see Nokia X
- Samsung evolving KNOX into complete mobile device management solution
- Samsung Galaxy S5 with Gear 2, Gear Fit: quick hands-on, screenshots
- The Privacy Panel in Firefox OS
- Smartphone Camera fun: Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Sony Xperia Z2
- Nokia’s puzzling Android announcement: Nokia X
- New features in Windows Azure, including web site backup, .NET mobile services
- Alcatel OneTouch shows Pop Fit wearable smartphone at Mobile World Congress
- Visual Studio license expired: not what you want to see just before boarding a flight
- Microsoft OneDrive and Office Online is Office 365 lite
- Microsoft improves its web app builder for Windows Phone, but where is it going with this?
- What’s up with Facebook acquiring “we don’t sell ads” WhatsApp
- Microsoft Office 365 and the battle for simplicity
- Notes from the field: manually migrating between Office 365 plans
- Review: Acer C720 Chromebook and reflections on Chrome OS
- Something that needs fixing in Office 365: sometimes you cannot log out
- A closer look at Azure web sites: beware suspension
- Ah, Microsoft! Should it give up Windows Phone, adopt Android, abandon Windows 8 “Metro”? No, and here is why.
- Reflecting on Microsoft’s choice of Satya Nadella as new CEO
January 2014
- What’s on at the QCon London software development conference (and a discount for readers)
- On Google, Motorola, Microsoft and Apple
- Hope for Squeezebox as Raspberry Pi becomes a streaming player
- OneDrive, SkyDrive, whatever: Microsoft needs to make it better – especially in Office 365
- Thirty years of mainly not the Mac
- Review: Om Audio INEARPEACE ear buds. Superb sound
- Microsoft financials: record revenue, consumer sales declining in drift towards Enterprise
- Review: Audio-Technica SonicFuel ATH-CKX5iS ear buds
- Results for Nokia’s last quarter with Windows Phone: slightly worse than flat? Over to you Microsoft
- Microsoft and developer trust
- Review: Turtle Beach z300 headset. Super flexible, shame about the sound
- Privacy, Google Now, Scroogled, and the connected world
- Frank comments from Microsoft Product Manager on the Visual Studio 2012 user interface mess. “Secrecy is bad – it lets problems fester”
- Platform Wars: Google injects Chrome OS into Windows, never mind the poor users
- Adobe Creative Cloud updates include 3D printing in Photoshop
- Visual Studio 2013 update 1: avoid the RC if you use C++
- CES 2014 report: robots, smart home, wearables, bendy TV, tablets, health gadgets, tubes and horns
- Naim’s Statement: no compromise home audio
- Bang & Olufsen Essence simplifies home audio – as long as you have the right smartphone
- High end earbuds impress at CES 2014–especially Audiofly’s top model
- Here comes Steam Machine: a quick look
- Sony’s camcorder dog mount shown at CES
- Virtual reality from Intel at CES
- CES analyst predicts flat global consumer tech sales, massive dominance of smartphones and tablets, drift towards low-end
- Nine months with Truphone: a solution to mobile roaming?
- Figuring out Project Siena: a Windows 8 app to build Windows 8 apps
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December 2013
- Reflecting on 2013: the year of not the PC, no privacy, and the Internet of Things
- Something Microsoft has never fixed: why Windows is slow to start up
- Do you miss manuals? Why and why not …
- Microsoft Project Siena: another go at the spirit of Visual Basic
- 2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything
- What next for Windows as Microsoft announces Build 2014?
- Google Compute Engine: good enough to take on Amazon?
- Toshiba ships DVD media with laptop without DVD drive
- Qobuz lossless streaming and hi-res downloads available in the UK
- Will Microsoft scrap Windows RT? Here’s why it might not matter
November 2013
- Microsoft cloud account problems
- First thoughts on Xbox One: difficult to recommend right now
- Making sense of Salesforce 1 (it’s all about mobile)
- Salesforce 1 and the cloud platform wars
- Microsoft Surface 2: still a hard sell at retail
- Amazon’s big reinvent aims at the enterprise
- What does Xamarin’s success say about open source versus proprietary? Miguel de Icaza says he has never been happier
- Visual Studio goes online, kind-of
- Review: Tommy Super Deluxe box by the who
- My last server? HP ML310e G8 quick review
- Users report SkyDrive issues: sync failures, Microsoft Account problems
- Ransomware like CryptoLocker is a game changer in the malware wars – and not in a good way
- As BlackBerry stumbles, there are now three mobile platforms that matter
- Asus Transformer Book Trio combines Windows and Android – but what is it for?
- Brief hands on with new Asus Windows 8.1 T100 tablet – or should that be netbook?
- Microsoft’s Xbox One almost invisible at Gadget Show Live
- High end home entertainment with a Cornflake flavour
October 2013
- Hyper-V 2012 R2 Live Migration Hands On
- What to do if SkyDrive disappears from Windows 8.1 Explorer?
- Microsoft proves resilience with bumper quarter, but is not yet a devices and services business
- Surface 2 has a decent camera, unlike Surface RT
- First thoughts on Surface 2
- FutureMark graphics benchmark: Surface RT vs Surface 2
- Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet announced
- Nokia announces huge Windows Phones, new apps, new Asha models, Instagram, Twitter Vine apps
- Upgrading Hyper-V Server 2012 to 2012 R2: minor hassles
- Review: Surface Touch Cover 2
- Visual Studio 2013 is released. What’s new?
- Microsoft should have made a separate Windows for tablets say critics – but it did
- Windows 8.1: now good enough that it is ready for general use
- 7 types of Windows 8 users and non-users
- Usability: Microsoft’s big weakness
- Getting up and running with Workplace Join
- 17CD John Martyn download set offered for pennies across the web
- Adobe’s security calamity: 2.9 million customer account details accessed
- Sunspider JavaScript Benchmark on 4 models of Microsoft Surface
- Windows 8.1 and cloud-centric computing
- How to change a network from public to private in Windows 8.1
September 2013
- That easyJet tweet–questions arising about how businesses protect their reputation
- Dear audio industry, fix mastering before bothering with high resolution
- Preventing auto-archive of Tasks in Office 365 with Retention Tags
- ComponentOne’s TouchToolkit for Windows Forms: another approach to the Windows tablet problem
- Fixing a slow Lenovo laptop
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 (Delphi) for Android now available
- Fix screen dimming unexpectedly in Windows 8
- Does anti-virus work? Does Android need it? Reflections on AVG’s security suite
- Samsung takes over Times Square, New York City, for Galaxy Note 3
- Microsoft acquires Nokia’s device business: a risky move for Windows Phone
- Hands on with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Rights Management: not ready yet
- A great big phone: Samsung Galaxy Mega review
August 2013
- Microsoft completes Windows 8.1, it says, but developers are unable to test their apps
- On Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s future
- Lenovo’s bundled Start menu: more OEM trouble for Microsoft
- Review: Innergie PocketCell pocket battery charger: elegant design though limited capacity
- Expanding the Raspberry Pi with PiFace and Pi Rack
- Email hassles with Android and Exchange: couldn’t open connection to server
- Microsoft’s MSDN changes: too much marketing
- Review: Bayan Audio Soundbook Bluetooth dock
July 2013
- Microsoft Office 365: migration hassles show why partners still have a role
- Appcelerator plans to rethink Titanium architecture, standardise on WebKit JavaScript engine
- Ubuntu forum hack sets same-password users at risk
- Not just Windows: even Mac sales are down
- Dragon Notes Review: quick voice to text for Windows 8, but is it good enough?
- Windows RT and Surface RT: Why Microsoft should persevere
- Microsoft financials: nearly a $billion lost on Surface RT but prospering in server and cloud
- Microsoft financials: nearly a $billion lost on Surface RT but prospering in server and cloud
- Review: Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus capture and streaming device
- Anders Hejlsberg says C# 6.0 to use Roslyn compiler, coming in next Visual Studio after VS 2013
- Mobile developer survey: Apple iOS most profitable platform, but even Windows Phone is viable
- What’s coming from Microsoft in its next financial year: July 2013-June 2014
- Real-world cloud computing adoption: pretty slow according to IDG Connect survey
- DTS Headphone X surround sound from stereo is astonishing though Z+ music app disappoints
- Review: Acer Iconia W3 with Windows 8.1 Preview
- Bing Maps app on Windows 8: rubbish compared to Bing Maps on the web
- Adobe Creative Cloud giveaway at Microsoft Build: sign of a new alliance?
- Microsoft Build 2013: Love the platform?
- Virtual Reality with Oculus Rift
June 2013
- Bowie is – Exhibition at the V&A London
- Visual C++ will implement all of C++ 11 and C++ 14, some of C99 says Microsoft
- A big ball of Bluetooth at Microsoft Build
- Microsoft Build: Windows 8.1 for developers, Visual Studio 2013, Xamarin for cross-platform
- Not just Instagram: the Windows Phone (and BlackBerry, Firefox OS) app problem
- Online booking with National Express: prices change arbitrarily
- Windows XP Mode hassles for Windows 8 upgraders
- China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer takes top ranking, a win for Intel vs Nvidia
- Fixing lack of output in AWstats after Debian Linux upgrade
- Microsoft and mediocrity in programming
- VLC efforts targeting WinRT with open source tools could enable more open source ports
- Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, SQL Server 14: what’s new, and what is the Cloud OS?
- Acer announces 8.1” Windows tablet – but will desktop Windows work in this format?
May 2013
- What’s coming in Windows 8.1?
- Tip: finding Start menu groups in the Windows 8 Start screen
- Windows 8: return of Start button illuminates Microsoft’s painful transition
- Build Mac and iOS apps in Visual Studio: Oxygene for Cocoa
- Fixing an unresponsive screen on a Samsung Series 7 Slate with Windows 8
- Why custom templates might not appear in Word 2013
- Windows in Xbox One: a boost for Windows 8 apps?
- Keep your 360 – Xbox One not backward compatible
- Roccat Savu driver grabbing more than 25% CPU on Windows
- Miguel de Icaza: don’t blame Google for Microsoft’s contempt for developers
- Official Google Android Studio is based on JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
- Nokia 925: smart camera and metal band design continues Windows Phone 8 and Lumia effort
- The pros and cons of subscription vs perpetual licenses
- Creative Pros prefer iOS says Adobe, explaining lack of Android support in new apps
- Adobe announces next Creative Suite, now called Creative Cloud
- Windows Nokia Lumia 510 Phone just £70 at Tesco
- Fixing slow network or wi-fi in Windows 8 with Hyper-V
April 2013
- Billion dollar revenue or not, Microsoft Azure is growing fast
- HP ElitePad 900: a tablet that is easy to disassemble thanks to magnetic screen attachment
- RAD Studio XE4 with Delphi for iOS is here. Who will use it?
- Changes in the Delphi language for ARM and mobile support
- Getting Windows 3.1 connected to the internet (in DOSBox of course)
- Review: Plantronics Voyager Legend UC B235 Bluetooth Headset
- Key Easy Assist feature of Microsoft InTune disabled on Windows 8, when will it return?
- Linn music downloads: is the Studio Master worth the extra cost?
- Microsoft shrugs off Windows 8 issues with record revenue
- No more Delphi for .NET: Prism removed from RAD Studio XE4
- Xamarin acquires LessPainful, announces Test Cloud for mobile apps
- Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development
- Review: Three-in-one Jabra Revo headphones and headset: wired, wireless and USB
- Review: RHA MA350 Earphones
- The PC puzzle: does the sales drop implicate or justify Windows 8?
- Microsoft takes aim at VMware, talks cloud and mobile device management at MMS 2013
- Office 2013 Home and Business requires a Microsoft account to activate, a nuisance for Office 365 users
- Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?
- Make your iPhone a close-up or wide-angle camera with Olloclip
- You cannot resell music downloads, says New York court. Bad news for ReDigi
- Twilio integrates with Google App Engine for cloud telephony applications
- Review: Logitech K811 Bluetooth Easy-Switch keyboard for iPad, Mac and more
March 2013
- Review: Sony HDR-PJ320E Handycam Camcorder and Projector: nice features, shame about the image quality
- Microsoft’s growth areas: Azure, Server with Hyper-V, Office 365, Windows Phone
- What is mobile security? And do we need it?
- NVIDIA’s Visual Computing Appliance: high-end virtual graphics power on tap
- Big GPU news at NVIDIA tech conference including first Tegra with CUDA
- Microsoft’s Windows 8 app problem will not be solved by incentivising junk
- Review: Seagate Wireless Plus combines hard drive and wi-fi for storage on the go
- Intel Xeon Phi shines vs NVidia GPU accelerators in Ohio State University tests
- Native apps vs HTML 5: no consensus over how to choose
- Review: Bayan Audio StreamPort Universal Bluetooth streamer
- Review: Olympus LS-14 24/96 audio recorder with Tresmic mic
- Virtual meetings: as good as the real thing?
- Windows 8 is another Vista says Samsung memory guy: is he right?
- Internal Windows Runtime apps are prohibitively expensive to deploy, says Microsoft Regional Director
February 2013
- Windows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung Knox
- Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing
- Nokia at Mobile World Congress: aiming for a bigger market
- First sight of Firefox OS at Mobile World Congress
- HP goes Android: what does that say about Windows 8?
- Reflecting on Google’s power: a case for regulation?
- Windows Runtime flaws spoil new Windows Store (Metro) apps
- Cross-platform frameworks ordered by percentage of shared code
- Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?
- Xamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C#
- Fixing Windows blue screen using Internet Connection Sharing in Windows Phone 8
- Review: Nokia Lumia 620, a winner when the price is right
- Windows Phone 7.8 Live Tiles are buggy, say users
- Browser monoculture draws nearer as Opera adopts WebKit, Google Chromium
- Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, London. Computer world. 11 February 2013
- Windows 8: Forget Surface Pro, what matters is the app platform
- Hi-res audio and the hi-fi press: the problem with honesty
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 hassles: asynchronous processing service stopped
- Not just a four-horse race: three new mobile operating systems joining the fray
- Embarcadero acquires AnyDAC data access libraries for Delphi, C++ Builder
- LocationTech: a new Eclipse working group for location technologies
- The Monki Gras London 2013: scaling craft, how to be happy at work, defining software excellence, and lots of beer
- Two ways to make a spoon: 3D printing in action
- Another reason to use tablets: desktop anti-virus does not work
January 2013
- Images of Eurora, the world’s greenest supercomputer
- Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server get Git integration
- Java software quality: frameworks good, Struts or C++ bad says report
- When Google Maps is wrong
- Office 2013 annoyances: Avoiding the Backstage, slow typing in SkyDrive
- Contract Bridge on a tablet: Funbridge vs Bridgebase vs Bridge Baron
- Microsoft financials: record revenue, signs of Windows 8 concern
- Why is Windows 8 not selling better?
- RØDE Mic: High quality recording with iPhone or iPad
- Last minute offer: attend BlackBerry Jam Europe in Amsterdam for half price or even free
- IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android?
- Review: Logitech Z553 2.1 Speaker System
- Notes from the field: USB 3.0 PCI Express cards, HP ML350 G6 and Server Core
- Making sense of Microsoft’s Cloud OS
- Amazon AutoRip: great service, or devaluing music?
- The cross-platform app problem. What should the BBC do?
- A good quarter for Nokia, but Lumia still has far to go
- Got a Ruby on Rails application running? Patch it NOW
- Hands on Cross-Platform Windows and Mac development with C++ Builder XE3
- Microsoft updates .NET Framework 4.5 for Windows 8, Server 2012 to fix performance, bugs
- A new old song from david bowie: where are we now?
- Extraordinary: the FTC says it is OK for Google to bias search results in its own favour
- NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset: faster performance, longer battery life
- Hacking Windows RT and Surface RT to run desktop apps
- Google the new Microsoft, goes to war on Windows Phone users (updated)
- Google fights Android fragmentation with new SDK terms
- I am done with laptops
- Review: Logitech t620 Touch Mouse for Windows 8
- Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML: mainly for mobile
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December 2012
- Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review
- Async USB audio streaming at 24-bit 192Khz with Logitech Squeezebox Touch
- Fresh Paint Windows Store app: in equal parts great and frustrating
- Microsoft scraps Expression Web and Design, blends Blend with Visual Studio
- Review: Skullcandy Navigator, smart on-ear headphones with microphone and special controls for Apple devices
- Mobile: Windows Phone appeal growing, iOS and Android secure say Titanium developers
- The Windows 8 app platform: how is it going? A few clues from developers
- Review: Edifier MP250+ Sound to Go Plus
- Review: Cooking the QOOQ way – do you want a tablet in your kitchen?
- Xamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store
- RIM BlackBerry 10 SDK is now gold
- Trial apps and in-app purchases easy to hack on Windows 8 says Nokia engineer
- Nokia forms 71% of Windows Phone market according to AdDuplex research
- Embarcadero launches C++ Builder XE3: first built on Clang
- Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urls
- Adobe launches Game Developer Tools including Scout profiler
- Windows 8 Flash Player hassles: Windows update integration means IE users get an old version
- The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing
- Review: Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition. Capture Xbox and PS3 gaming action for YouTube.
November 2012
- Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO
- Will you buy a Surface Pro? Here is why and why not
- Visual Studio 2012 gets Windows XP targeting, Team Foundation Server fixes
- Kingston DataTraveler Workspace and Hands On with Windows to Go
- Review: Edifier Spinnaker e30 Multimedia Speakers
- Information density in Metro apps on Windows 8
- Apps sell better with Live Tiles, says Nokia, with other tips for phone developers
- Microsoft’s Design Language – Tiles and Chromelessness – Prospects for Windows 8
- BlackBerry 10: key dates for developers announced, $10,000 incentive dangled
- Adobe AIR for Metro promised for first half of 2013
- Skype vulnerability exposes poor security in web application. Who will trust Skype now?
- Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft – but why?
- How to run Server Manager or any application as a different user in Windows 8
- Improving Windows Server: the really hard problem
- Catching up with Amazon’s cloud services
- How bad is the Surface RT?
- Rubbish apps in Windows Store – encouraged by Microsoft?
- Microsoft answers Windows Runtime questions
- Microsoft Build 2012 is done. Now the market gets to judge Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
- How to test and debug an app on Surface RT in a hotel room
- Investigating Surface RT performance: Counting primes in C# and JavaScript
October 2012
- A puzzle: why did Microsoft hold back Windows RT previews from developers?
- Steve Ballmer shows off Windows 8 in Build keynote
- Slow JavaScript performance in Microsoft Surface RT
- Microsoft’s problem – and its solution?
- Windows Phone 8 launches: is it enough?
- Surface Reflections: it can only get better
- Blogging with Surface
- The Surface RT desktop: more here than I had expected
- Windows 8 launches: key questions remain, but Surface shines
- ITWriting app hits the Windows 8 store
- Windows 8 FAQ: the real Frequently Asked Questions
- Review: Philips Voice Tracer digital recorder DVT 3500
- Telerik Icenium: new desktop and cloud IDE for mobile development
- ThoughtWorks bemoans excessive software complexity, advocates small, focused services
- Hands on Windows 8 development: Twitter and hyperlink hassles
- Microsoft posts decline in revenue and profits on the eve of Windows 8 launch
- Twilio adds support for WebRTC: real time communications in JavaScript
- Amazon.com sales stats snapshot shows why Microsoft is reinventing Windows
- Microsoft Surface is coming: Windows, but not as you know it
- Windows 8 survival guide for touch and tablet users
- Adapting the Items Page template in a Windows Runtime app
- Boom time for audio?
- Will Windows 8 save the PC? Gartner reports 8% year on year sales decline
- Windows 8 usability: still a struggle for new users
- Microsoft’s Server 2012 Essentials: a good replacement for Small Business Server?
- Visual Studio 2012 hits and misses
- All about Search in Windows 8: a feature every user has to understand
- Windows 8 discoverability: users searching for search
- How Adobe turned on a pin to embrace the web (and Google)
- Appcelerator mobile developer survey shows Windows 8 progress, uncertainty
- Here comes TypeScript: Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript
September 2012
- A glimpse into the internal battles that set the future of Windows and .NET
- Google: a search engine, or affiliate site?
- AT&T partners with Twilio to offer cloud communication apps
- Adobe using Google Chromium Embedded Framework for Edge tools
- Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio – the last Squeezebox?
- Adobe Creating the Web, offers Edge animation tool for free
- Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services: node.js and more in beginnings of easy cloud to device development
- Microsoft Project Austin: superb C++ code sample for Windows 8
- Apple looks mortal
- Platform churn? If it is in Windows 8, we are committed to it says Microsoft
- BBC replaces Flash with Flash in Android iPlayer
- Adobe results: 200,000 Creative Cloud subscribers and an impressive transition
- Information Density in Metro, sorry Windows Store apps
- When will Blend, Microsoft’s Visual Studio design tool, be done? Not for a while says Soma Somasegar
- Dropbox turns to CoffeeScript to beat JavaScript syntactic noise
- 85% of user reviews are genuine says Gartner
- Visual Studio 2012 launch: focus on Modern Apps
- SharpDX: Managed DirectX for Metro from the community
- Telerik acquires Fiddler
- Ancient game plays better in Windows 8 than Windows 7
- Adobe’s Roy Fielding patches Apache to ignore IE10 Do Not Track privacy request
- Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server 2012: too painful to use?
- Upgrading to Hyper-V Server 2012
- No in-place upgrade for Hyper-V Server 2012
- Nokia and Windows Phone 8: more questions than answers
- Nokia City Lens: augmented reality on your Lumia 920 Windows 8 phone
- Colligo Briefcase: offline SharePoint for iPad and iPhone
- Windows Server 2012: a great upgrade
- Windows 8 desktop user tip: learn mouse-top-left-drag-down
- Embarcadero releases RAD Studio XE3
- Gadget Writing: some posts you may have missed
- This may be why your computer is crashing
- Review: Audyssey Lower East Side Audio Dock Air for Apple AirPlay
- Farewell to the Squeezebox
August 2012
- The one thing missing from Windows 8 tablets announced so far: simplicity
- Free competition: Win a Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ secure USB Flash Drive
- Understanding Windows 8 Storage Spaces: confusing but powerful
- Delphi XE3 Professional downgraded to local databases only
- Guest post with a view from the enterprise: Microsoft is getting it right with Windows 8
- IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads
- Uh-oh, here come the OEM improvements to Windows 8
- Windows 8 compatibility issues: speech input, secure Flash drives
- Review: Kingston DataTraveler Locker+G2 secure USB Flash drive
- Review: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12. Stunning accuracy, a few annoyances
- Windows 8 sideloading and Embarcadero’s Metropolis fake-WinRT framework
- Developing for the Windows Runtime: a few more notes from the field
- The Windows Runtime App Certification Kit: not too good detecting crashes and hangs
- Developing a Windows Runtime app: some observations
- Can you trust Windows 8 Storage Spaces?
- Third-party compilers locked out of Windows Runtime development
- Reactions to Windows 8
- Embarcadero previews Metropolis in RAD Studio XE3: fake Metro apps?
- Amazon Glacier: archiving on demand at low prices
- Installing Kodak All-in-One Printer driver on Windows 8
- Embarcadero preparing Delphi, C++ Builder XE3 release
- Windows 8 release now available; you should install it
- Windows 8 RTM: it’s better than you may have heard
- Why I want a Windows RT (ARM) tablet
- Microsoft really, really wants developers to build Windows Runtime apps
- Microsoft toughens logo requirements for Windows 8, forbids startup apps
- Review: Roxy Music Complete Studio Recordings
- Review: X-mini KAI, a Bluetooth audio dock you can put in your pocket
- Using Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs from desktop applications
- Notifications in Windows 8: how to display new-style toast from a desktop app
- Nokia sells Qt cross-platform software framework to Digia
- Valve announces Steam-powered apps beyond games as well as embracing Linux
- Fixing Visual Basic for Applications code for 64-bit Microsoft Office
- Review: Nina Nesbitt and Owl City at Kings College, London
- Emma Bladon Jones and Troubadour Rose at Bartons Nottingham
- Building a cheap PC, and why it still beats tablets and laptops for value
- RIM hints at move to license BlackBerry 10 OS to third parties
- Windows 8 is done, available August 15th with final Visual Studio 2012
- Windows 8 defeats booking.com virus
July 2012
- Mac App Store, Windows Store, and the decline of the open platform
- BBC web site has a Metro look
- Desktop Windows 8 survival guide
- Interview: Salesforce.com exec Parker Harris on the technology behind the platform
- Internet hotspot tethering comes to the Lumia 800
- Access Web App: at last a simple web database app builder from Microsoft
- Office 365 for developers: Getting started with Microsoft Napa
- Adobe Brackets: a different type of HTML and JavaScript code editor. Interview with Adobe’s Adam Lehman.
- Offline web mail in new Office 365 and Exchange 2013 Outlook Web Access
- Recovering documents from SharePoint 2010
- Enable Adobe Flash and BBC iPlayer on the Google Nexus 7
- Intranet and Mail hassles with Windows 8
- WHATWG to accelerate work on HTML5 “Living Standard”, diverge further from W3C HTML5
- Canon PowerShot S100 vs Ixus 80 IS
- PhoneGap 2.0 released with WebView, Windows Phone support
- Microsoft financials: still growing in the cloud era, but watch out for tablets
- Google Nexus 7: a little bit of everything you do
- Microsoft Office 2013 SkyDrive Pro in action, with offline documents
- Could this be the new Microsoft Office 15 logo?
- Exascale computing: you could do it today if you could supply the power says Nvidia
- Microsoft opens up Office 365 and Azure single sign-on for developers
- SharePoint security update stops SharePoint working
- Macro virus reborn: ACAD/Medre.A steals drawings using AutoCAD AutoLISP
- Telerik releases Kendo UI components for ASP.NET MVC
- The Development Game: Achievements in Visual Studio 2012
- Microsoft SQL Azure versus SQL Server on Amazon AWS
- DevExpress offering Metro-inspired Tile control for Delphi VCL, plans to drop support for Delphi 7
- Tablets, laptops, smartphones: which form factors will win?
- Book Review: Smashing UX Design (a great read for developers too)
- Microsoft announces launch dates for Windows 8: software will be done early August
- USB flash drives: a modern design canvas
- Moving a database from on-premise SQL Server to SQL Azure: some hassle
- Farewell to Microsoft Small Business Server
- Embarcadero adopts open source Clang for future C++ versions
- aQuantive may be Microsoft’s biggest acquisition failure. Have there been good ones? A look back.
June 2012
- Updating the world’s most widely deployed SQL database engine: welcome to SQLite 4
- OEM vendors: it’s Google, not Microsoft you need to watch
- Nexus Q streaming device: you will use Cloud, you will use Android, says Google
- Review: JoyTAB 8″ Android tablet. Do you need to spend more?
- MySQL on Windows Azure is expensive and provided by a third-party, spoils web site offer
- Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie on what has happened to Silverlight
- Microsoft Surface has changed the Windows 8 conversation
- Review: Philips Voice Tracer digital recorder
- Common sense on non-upgradeable Windows 7 Phones
- Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8: nearly converged
- Wrestling with SharePoint and Office 365: code to bulk move documents
- Office in Windows RT: not licensed for business use?
- Microsoft to make its own tablet called Surface, puts Windows RT centre stage
- Close up with Asus PadFone: is a converged device in your future?
- BlackBerry 10: QNX multitasking goodness
- Three reasons why Microsoft should make its own Windows RT (ARM) Tablet
- Amazon web service APIs: a kind of cloud standard?
- Would you be happy to visit your doctor online? John Sculley says most of us should
- Visual Studio LightSwitch to get HTML5 support
- The new Windows Azure: a better cloud platform from Microsoft
- Microsoft, Windows 8, and the Innovator’s Dilemma (or, why you hate Windows 8)
- Windows Azure get new hybrid cloud, infrastructure as a service features
- In Windows 8: the perfect Metro news app for obsessives
- Ninja Gaiden 3 comes to Nintendo Wii U
- Microsoft announces Internet Explorer for Xbox 360, makes bid for living room
- Windows Vista designer pops up to explain and defend Windows 8
- Getting started with Windows 8: Four things new users need to know
- Huge icons in Windows 8 Metro
May 2012
- New Windows 8, new Visual Studio 2012
- Windows 8 Release Preview now available, Adobe Flash included, finished version expected August 2012
- Developers like coding in the dark
- The application that would not uninstall
- Review: Cygnett Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad, Windows
- Adobe Flash in Windows 8 Metro, but not technically a plug-in
- Making sense of Microsoft’s Windows 8 strategy
- Apple’s space-age Campus 2 plans revealed: complete with amphitheatre
- Microsoft appeals to Windows 8 Metro developers not to stray from the official API
- Programming NVIDIA GPUs and Intel MIC with directives: OpenACC vs OpenMP
- The pros and cons of NVIDIA’s cloud GPU
- NVIDIA’s GPU in the cloud: will you still want an Xbox or PlayStation?
- Review: Kingston 240GB V+200 ssdNow SSD kit
- Fast service at Microsoft store in San Jose
- A vending machine with a difference: this one buys your old phone
- NVIDIA Nsight comes to Eclipse for Mac, Linux GPU programming
- Review: Digital Wars by Charles Arthur
- System Center 2012, Windows 8 and the BYOD revolution
- A little colour returns to Visual Studio 11 – but not much
- A taste of the high end at a bargain price: Behringer 3031A active loudspeakers
- Great sounding recordings
April 2012
- What next for the Nook as Microsoft invests in Barnes & Noble’s digital business?
- Hands on with Samsung’s Galaxy Note
- Convert .NET Intermediate Language to JavaScript
- Ubuntu 12.04: a fresh take on Linux
- Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch: does it have a future?
- Which online storage service? SkyDrive is best value but lacks cool factor
- Microsoft re-imagining client computer management for Windows 8
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, PhoneGap Build, and HTML5 app tooling
- What’s in Adobe’s Creative Cloud, and should you go cloud or purchase outright?
- Adobe turns to OpenCL rather than NVIDIA CUDA for Mercury Graphics Engine in Creative Suite 6
- Wireless speakers from Dynaudio: the new Xeo
- Appcelerator Titanium gets Mobile Web SDK, cloud services
- Nokia Lumia strategy needs time, may not have it
- Microsoft results: old business model still humming, future a concern
- A bug in embedded Internet Explorer in Windows 8
- Windows 8 to be called Windows 8, no Outlook on ARM
- Hands on: building an app for Windows 8 Metro
- My tribute to Jack Tramiel, Commodore PET and the Atari ST
- Windows Phone and Windows 8 convergence: a few more hints from Microsoft
- Audyssey Lower East Side speakers: remarkable sound quality in a compact package complete with DAC
- Multicore processor wars: NVIDIA squares up to Intel
- Run Metro apps in a window on Windows 8
- Apple breaks web storage in iOS 5.1, does not care about web apps?
- Developers dislike monochrome Visual Studio 11 beta
March 2012
- The incredible moving cursor: why your cursor jumps around when typing on your Windows 7 laptop
- Adobe will charge a royalty for use of “Premium features” in Flash Player
- Microsoft open sources further ASP.NET Frameworks, publishes code with Git
- Developers: will you do Metro?
- Whoosh! Review: Samsung 830 series SSD kit
- Nokia gradually fixing Lumia 800, battery life much improved
- What’s new in SQL Server 2012?
- Just three Windows 8 on ARM tablets at launch? Not good for Microsoft
- PhoneGap is Adobe, Cordova is Apache
- Fixing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- Why your new 2TB or 3TB drive will not work with Windows Backup
- Backup and file history in Windows 8 Consumer Preview: a million options to confuse you
- Microsoft deprecates Subsystem for UNIX, recommends open source instead
- Crisis in Microsoft land: what next after the mixed reception for Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
- Why is MusicCityDownload.exe in my Windows folder?
- The best ear buds I have heard: Wolfson’s Digital Silence DS-421D with noise cancellation
- A hit: Wordament on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012
- The most enduring software development techniques revealed at QCon London
- How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service
- Sold out QCon kicks off in London: big data, mobile, cloud, HTML 5
- Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes
- Two web browsers one too many in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview tip: use compatibility mode for driver installation
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview annoyances
- What’s in Windows 8 client for desktop users who do not need Metro?
- Embarcadero updates Delphi XE2, full reinstall required
- Here comes Windows Server 8 beta: what’s new since the Developer Preview?
- Farewell to Mobile World Congress at the Fira Montjuïc Barcelona
February 2012
- Getting ready for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- Google’s Eric Schmidt looks forward to an Android in every pocket
- Images from Mobile World Congress – Huawei’s SmartPhone horse, a Lego robot that collects trash
- Nokia at Mobile World Congress: one year after the Windows Phone shift, how is it doing?
- Ford Microsoft car makes an appearance at Mobile World Congress
- Imperfect Samsung Slate 7 tablet shows challenge facing Windows 8
- The confusing state of Microsoft’s TMG and UAG firewall and proxy software
- Adobe’s Flex roadmap: another go at positioning Flex and Flash versus HTML5
- Small Businesses love the cloud says Parallels: three times more likely to choose cloud over on-premise servers
- Tablets will be bigger than PCs. Are you ready?
- Compile Object Pascal to JavaScript with Smart Mobile Studio
- Mysteries of trapping errors in PowerShell
- Where are the tablets for Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
- What to do when your Nokia Lumia 800 will not turn on?
- Windows on ARM fixes much that is wrong with Windows, but lack of apps makes it Microsoft’s big risk
- Windows on ARM: Microsoft can write Desktop apps, but you cannot
- WebKit dominance threatens mobile web standards – but who will care?
- On BlackBerry 10, Cascades UI and Adobe AIR
- What is in BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: new universal inbox and remote control
- Cross-platform Windows and Mac lifts Delphi sales by 54%
- Will Nokia’s Qt come to Windows Phone?
- What will it take to make RIM’s Playbook sell?
- Telcos have a dying business model – APIs and cloud services are the future says Alcatel-Lucent’s Laura Merling
- A quiet revolution in UK government IT: open source ousting big-vendor lock-in
- Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”: Windows 8 kernel, more form factors
- How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London
January 2012
- One of the best features of Office 365 vs BPOS: setting passwords not to expire
- What would you like to see in Microsoft Office 15?
- NVIDIA releases CUDA Toolkit 4.1 with LLVM compiler
- Fixing a Small Business Server 2008 broken by updates
- Nokia results: hope for Windows Phone?
- Why Microsoft is scrapping the MIX conference
- Microsoft LocalDB: another option for local databases
- Adobe sheds more light on its LiveCycle plans–but what is happening to its Digital Enterprise Platform?
- Microsoft financials: Windows under stress, Server and Office making up
- Apple iBooks Author aims at school textbook market, but beware the lock-in
- Appcelerator CEO on EMEA expansion, Titanium vs PhoneGap, and how WebKit drives HTML5 standards
- Wikipedia goes dark for a day to protest against proposed US legislation
- Meet Resilient File System (ReFS), a new file system for Windows
- OEMs are still breaking Windows: can Microsoft fix this with Windows 8?
- Nokia Drive on the Lumia: it works
- PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud
- The mystery of unexpected expiring sessions in ASP.NET
- Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Metro Metro Metro feature in Microsoft’s last keynote at CES
- Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next
- How many clouds is too many? AcerCloud announced in Las Vegas
- Microsoft puts carriers before users in new Windows Phone update which you might not get
- Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js
- Storage Spaces coming to Windows 8 client as well as server
- Asus Transformer Prime update: Google video rental or unlocked bootloader, you choose
- Users petition Asus over locked bootloader in Asus Transformer Prime
- What is the best way to choose a development tool?