It seems, backed by many large corporate partners and its superior video quality, Silverlight has now reached 60% market penetration. That’s up from 45% at the end of 2009 — a rather startling leap!
At MIX10 they are currently bragging about Silverlight’s superior video quality and its ability, when combined with Microsoft IIS’s smooth streaming technology, [...]
So e-books are all the rage these days. It’s the wave of the future! Apart from dedicated devices such as the Nook or Kindle, there are various cross-platform software implementations, such as the Kindle App for Windows and iPhone, etc.
One of the most interesting attempts is the Ibis reader, which is actually an HTML5-driven [...]
Rejex is a very handy little site for building and testing regular expressions on the fly. It’s composed of four simple text boxes and a very informative cheat sheet (not shown above, but after the jump). You feed your text into the “Test String” box (the middle one), and then your expression into the top [...]
Stories about Apple’s stranglehold of control over the iPhone App Store have been raging since its inception. However, without signing up to the developer program, it’s not easy to find out just what rights developers do and don’t have.
This is due to the terms of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement; all iPhone developers have [...]
If you’ve ever struggled with rounding corners in your cascading style sheets, you’re going to enjoy Border Radius, a purpose-built utility for exactly this task. It’s a very simple page that allows you to set the border radius for one or more of the corners on a box, and it dynamically updates the screen to [...]
At its heart, Go is a multi-threading, concurrent multi-processor programming language.
That might not mean a lot to some of you, but it should. For the longest time, the largest breakdown between real life and computers — the killer paradigm shift — is how data is processed. We humans process data in parallel, while computers [...]
Firebug is an insanely useful add-on, even for those of us who are not all-out web developers. I tweak HTML every now and then, and Firebug is the best tool I know for figuring how why exactly your document doesn’t look right (in Firefox at least, and now in Chrome too). It lets you easily [...]
You’ve probably heard of the recently-settled Intel/AMD anti-trust lawsuit — most notably, the part of the resolution that involved Intel paying AMD $1.25 billion. But there was a lot more that went into the November 2009 settlement! For example, can you believe that the Intel compiler, the one used to produce a large percentage of [...]
Speaking on Cranky Geeks, a ZDNet-owned online television show, Google bigwig Chris DiBona quite plainly admits that Android open-source development isn’t plain sailing for its developers. “We could do better,” he says, but he isn’t apologizing. And rightly so: he would be apologizing for moving too fast. It would be like a pussy-whipped man apologizing [...]
For about a year now, kids with Xbox 360s have been able to create their own games with Microsoft’s Kodu. Over 200,000 downloads later, Kodu has arrived on the PC. Kodu lets kids create characters and maps, and program their own events. It might not be complex and hard to learn, but it’s fun and [...]
