Microsoft’s recently formed Open Technologies group has open sourced the code for its Entity Framework (EF) database mapping tool. The source code will be released under an Apache 2.0 license and hosted on CodePlex with the aim of further increasing what Microsoft calls “development transparency” on the project. NOTE: CodePlex […]
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Adobe has officially released its PhoneGap 2.0 open source mobile app development framework designed for cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Another brick in the “Abobe looks to HTML5 instead of Flash” wall, PhoneGap technology came to Adobe as an acquisition in October 2011 and now allows developers […]
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012 September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012) September 17-20, Santa Clara, CA. 9th Annual Storage Developer Conference (SDC) September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop September 29-30, San […]
Much of my programming life these last 15 years has explored fine-grained parallelism; that is, the use of parallel threads within the same program. I coauthored one of the first books on the topic for Intel Press, in which I carefully explained the traditional techniques of mutual exclusion. I even […]
According to StatCounter one of several sites that keep statistics on Internet usage Google Chrome became the most widely used browser in June on a global basis. Basing its information on tracking more than 15 billion page views, Chrome surged past Firefox late last year and overtook Microsoft’s […]
Personal moves taken by one developer who had previously targeted Apple’s App Store for his OS X compatible application could point to wider incompatibilities between the tech giant and the programmer community. Author of the Vico text editor Martin Hedenfalk says that he has moved his previously proprietary, closed-source App […]
Cross-platform web development tools company MoSync AB has announced extended functionality in the open-source release of its MoSync Software Development Kit (SDK) and MoSync Reload. The new product features include in-app purchase functionality for Android and iOS, NativeUI Widgets for Windows Phone 7, and debugging of HTML5/JavaScript apps. New tutorials […]
Wilmette, IL, July 13, 2012 –(PR.com)– On June 2nd 2012, the second PHP Development Conference, phpDev, was held in Minsk, Belarus. For the second time this year, the conference was organized by a group of Belarusian PHP enthusiasts, following the warm feedback the event received in January 2012. Intetics again […]
Last time I talked about using C++ to develop a simple class library for creating LCD display-style user interfaces (you can find the evolving code here). To refresh your memory, the main class is (more or less) here: class lcdui { protected: MENU *menu; // the current menu unsigned int […]