Engadget posted a great summary about hot facts we assisted in 2011. A nice way to set the point. 2011 Year in review: A timeline — Engadget.
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Engadget posted a great summary about hot facts we assisted in 2011. A nice way to set the point. 2011 Year in review: A timeline — Engadget.
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Miguel set the point about Mono and Xamarin for this 2011: WTF, giant steps! via Mono in 2011 – Miguel de Icaza.
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According to Microsoft, Google’s Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft. But the intriguing fact is that, instead of suing Google itself for infringing on its patents, Microsoft is finding it easy to sue or threaten smaller [...]
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HTC tells Apple to try competing, rather than suing Fear, uh? Related articles HTC "disappointed" at Apple’s lack of fair play (9to5mac.com) HTC calls out Apple for competing in courts, not on products (slashgear.com) Apple using lawsuits instead of ‘competing fairly,’ says HTC (electronista.com)
READ MORE »Quote, quote, quote! “And this is how you compete when innovation takes a back seat. Pretty much the entire software industry has been bogged down by software patents, making it virtually impossible to write any piece of code without infringing some patent in some closet somewhere in the US. So, you have to buy patent [...]
READ MORE »Here you can find the .ova image file ready to be imported in VirtualBox, too. Installing Android x86 in VirtualBox .
READ MORE »Manage your Cloud Files directly from your Android device inc. S3, GDocs + more. SMEStorage is a comprehensive Cloud and Local File Manager for your Android Device and enables you to view, sync, and manage files for all your favourite file providers using its unique ‘Open’ Cloud technology.
READ MORE »First, it is important to understand that the new WinRT (Windows Runtime) model that supports Win8 Metro style apps is accessible from .NET. Yes, you can also use C++, but I can’t imagine a whole lot of people care. And you can use JavaScript, which is pretty cool. But the important thing to understand is [...]
To put it bluntly, the date/time libraries in .NET are flawed. From the beginning there were no concepts of time zones or really any sort of universal time. As a result most libraries were designed to accept a DateTime class and left the developer to guess if the value should be in local or UTC [...]
“It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well. [...]
Quite old post, but sometimes I need to refresh the topic :-S Good Exception Management Rules of Thumb – Scott Hanselman.
I found this definition casually, and I realized I work in El Paso, A.D. 1881. Cowboy coding is a term used to describe software development where programmers have autonomy over the development process. This includes control of the project’s schedule, languages, algorithms, tools, frameworks and coding style. via Cowboy coding – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [...]
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