Don't blink because you will not see me blog too many times about games. In fact I do not know if I'm part of a large community of IT folks that are not turned on by games and never played games, but I thought I'd blog about something I saw on UK TV this week.
Web Development and SDK Development each offer distinct advantages to the iPhone Developer...So I set out over the last two months, with the aid of the LinkedIn Polls feature to gauge the trend
Following on from my earlier blog "Securing and Delivering Business Data on the iPhone", today Sybase shipped a new version of iAnywhere Mobile Office for Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the enterprise. The new release offers enhanced administrative, network security, deployment features and allows the extension of enterprise-class email and PIM data from Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange mobile devices. In turn this will allow the reduction of the total cost of ownership when extending email and business processes.
In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, Senthil Krishnapillai - Sybase iAnywhere's Director of Product Management - talks about the mobile email market and Sybase iAnywhere's most recent announcements regarding Mobile Office and the iPhone 3.0.
The creation of the iPhone App Store, The Android Market, and the Palm Software Store have issued a wave of mobile applications for consumer's cell phones. With seemingly a mobile application for everything it is only right that developers began to pay it back and develop applications that offer more than farting noises or an inanimate crystal on your phone's screen. Increasing fitness trends and a constant demand to reach physical potential have led developers to create a new wave of health conscious applications that keep you on track where ever you bring your phone.
Google’s Chrome browser has been through 29 updates since it launched six months ago. It’s also one of the only Google products to escape beta. Now Google has “forked” Chrome into a stable release and a flakier developer-oriented next-generation release that will wear the beta label. Google’s looking for early developer feedback on new speed enhancements, features and bug fixes.
Its now been three days since the announcement of the iPhone 3.0 SDK and OS from Apple, ample time for the eager developers and users to have made their mind up. In fact I set a Linkedin Poll...
Last month, JavaBlackBelt members reported that their productivity would increase by 25% if management installed Java Skills Management. The pressing question from managers: how do we do this? I've worked with JBB founder John Rizzo and we've developed a 6-step "installation plan" for Java skills management. Those steps and highlights are below my salutation.
When Wall Street Journal writes, they have their reasons. A couple of days ago they wrote that IBM wants to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5B. To me, this is sad news. People will be laid off and some software will cease to exist.
Big news from Sun Microsystems today on several fronts, first there is talk of an IBM / Sun merger and second Sun has offically unveiled their Open Cloud Platform & API. Exciting news on both fronts. As a member of the Sun Cloud Computing Strategic Advisory Council, I have been working closely with Sun since last year in an effort to guide their direction in terms of openness, portability and interoperability on their cloud efforts. These are areas I believe Sun has done a tramendous job of addressing in their latest cloud offering. Lew Tucker, Tim Bray, Craig McClanahan and the rest of the team at Sun have clearly spent a lot of time developing the most feature rich, powerful and open cloud on the market.
Questions are flying around the Web in the wake of yesterday's reports that IBM is interested in buying Sun for $6.5BN. They include "Has Jonathan Schwartz finally found success?" (Therese Poletti) and "Why isn't Cisco buying Sun?" (Lawrence Walsh).
In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.
Apple has provided some key new APIs to developers, include a mapping API which gives third-party applications access to Google Maps data and allows turn-by-turn navigation. Location-based applications and services are already looming as the next big thing in mobile applications, and Apple is clearly intent on capitalizing on the buzz around them.
On the Apple campus today March 17, Apple hosted a special media event that focused on, and introduced the next generation of the iPhone OS... 3.0. It was an invitation only event that has drawn much interest over the last week, across many blogs and in turn created much speculation of what was going to be announced. If you asked any self respecting iPhone Developer, you would get many wish-list items as well as the same from iPhone users, well now the truth is out there!
This article looks at a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) feature called Escape Analysis in some detail and how the JVM can use it to improve an application's performance. As you'll see, understanding what the JVM can do with escape analysis can help explain some otherwise non-intuitive performance results.
Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz has been reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and the company's progress going in to its next fiscal year. As industry blogs go, the three entries he's produced so far are miniature masterpieces.
Javaground has announced a new component of its Xpress Suite allowing developers to automatically generate a native iPhone program from a Java source code. Traditionally, developers target the iPhone by re-writing their Java source code in Objective C. Now, their existing Java code can be reused and automatically converted to create high-performance iPhone games and applications.
Apple yesterday announced that they will host an event at their corporate campus in Cupertino, California, on March 17 and that this event will provide a "sneak peek" at the iPhone 3.0 software, along with information about the new software kit that 3rd party vendors and developers use.
This paper by Fiorano presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics for several messaging scenarios.
ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated business models and intelligence to be developed cooperatively. ArcGIS Business Analyst Server also provides a host of prepackaged processes, data, and functions that allow users to generate analyses and workflows with less time spent in development and deployment.
In early September of '08, I did realized that something was very wrong with the economy. Back then, we’ve deposited a check from one of our customers, a very large enterprise. A week later, we’ve got the message from the bank - the check bounced. That company went belly up.
In what is likely the first-ever database benchmark conducted on an off-the-shelf mobile phone, McObject® has successfully deployed its TestIndex application on T-Mobile’s Android-based G1smartphone, to measure performance of the SQLite embedded database alongside McObject’s open source Perst™ embedded database as the two perform typical data management functions.
Last month, JavaBlackBelt completed a survey where developers said their teams would be 25% more productive if their management committed to skills management... which led me to consider: Which Java technologies do developers think that managers should understand better in order to make great decisions about skills management?
I was speaking to a friend of mine this week about iPhone development, especially around database development. I posed, what I thought was a straight forward question to him, which opened a hole can of worms, but worms that I've seen before.
One day my son Davey-steamboat showed up in my office with my rated “R” Java tutorial in his hands. He asked me to teach him programming so he could create computer games. At that time I’ve already written a couple of books on Java and taught multiple classes about computer programming, but all of this was for grownups! A search on Amazon could not offer anything but books for dummies, but Davey is not a dummy! After spending hours on Google I found either some poor attempts to create Java courses for kids, or some reader-rabbit-style books. Guess what? I decided to write one. To help me understand the mentality of the little people, I decided to ask Davey to become my first kid student.