When designing applications, adding additional layers to improve user experience may seem like a good idea, but it's important to consider the added complexity that comes along with it, such as where the data is going to come from. Simon Brown covers some of the questions you need to remember during application design, including: What operations you need to expose? Which technology binding do you use? How do you ensure that people can't plug in their own client and consumer the services?
0 replies - 3270 views - 01/31/12 by Simon Brown in Articles
At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now taking a slightly different direction. Silverlight 5 will include more than 40 new features such as...
0 replies - 15003 views - 12/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In a statement that took everyone by surprise today, Apple has decided to roll back the rules they implemented in April which were most likely a response to Adobe's CS5 Flash-to-iPhone compiler. If you watched Apple's recent iOS 4.1/iPod/Apple TV...
3 replies - 8975 views - 09/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for the Symbian OS. This week, Symbian also announced that this was the first platform kit that was...
1 replies - 11511 views - 07/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Microsoft released some handy Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 along with WCF RIA Services this week. The Silverlight tools provide an Intellisense functionality for modifying XAML styles, and there are tools for new features like elevated trust...
0 replies - 12855 views - 05/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
There's no rest for Microsoft's Silverlight team. They are already preparing to schedule new features to go into Silverlight 5. Version 4 was announced at the MIX 10 conference, and in an effort to maintain their fast tempo of Silverlight releases,...
0 replies - 12404 views - 05/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console, and deployment. The Python SDK has gained a shiny new experimental feature that lets you use...
0 replies - 14271 views - 04/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised iPhone/iPad SDK development terms. The report comes to us via IT World, and they said that the change in...
6 replies - 12763 views - 04/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
0 replies - 13043 views - 03/29/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements
IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report. The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India, but the US workforce has been declining. US policymakers fear that IBMs hiding of...
0 replies - 17219 views - 03/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...
0 replies - 18351 views - 03/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
iPad Coming to the US on April 3rd
1 replies - 18205 views - 03/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Will Apple Unveil the iSlate?
0 replies - 16301 views - 12/27/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it easy for developers to write extensions. Firefox's 3.5 version is now the second most popular web...
1 replies - 8852 views - 11/10/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one. Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla, details the reasons for this unusual step on a Mozilla developer's list...
0 replies - 7302 views - 10/22/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in News
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