Acccording to various sources, Sony are set to announce the PlayStation 4, at an event in New York City, tonight! With many analysts saying Microsoft’s answer, the supposedly-title XBox 720, set for release in the Autumn, the buzz has begun for the next generation of gaming consoles. PlayStation 4 Continue Reading
Oracle Appeals Google’s Java Win. What’s next for Dalvik?
This week, Oracle appealed Google’s win at the patent trial over the Java application programming interface (API) being used in the Android operating system. In a new document published this week (PDF), Oracle’s lawyers start by introducing a character called Ann Droid. And then tell a story about Ann ripping off Continue Reading
Learn to Code: Chapter 2 – Black Tie Function
This is the third part of my Learn to Code series. The previous part is here: Chapter 1 – Meet Bob. See Bob. See Bob Run. Run Bob, Run! We last spoke about making Bob run 5 miles. We were going to do that by performing an action – Continue Reading
Learn to Code: Chapter 1 – Meet Bob
This is the second part of a series of articles called Learn to Code. Click here to go to Chapter 0, “Wax on, Wax off”. Learn to Code Well done. You’re now a World class programmer! And you’ve been given a brief by your customer who wants you to Continue Reading
Learn to Code: Chapter 0 – Wax on, Wax off
So you want to learn to code? Well this is the right place. I assume no prior knowledge, except knowing how to turn on a computer, open a text editor such as Notepad, and have some idea of the operation of a keyboard. It may not be immediately obvious WHY Continue Reading
Facebook Graph Search – Something Big’s Missing…
So yesterday, Mark “FinkD” Zuckerberg’s little Californian social network called “Facebook” (you might have heard of it) announced a new feature called “Graph Search”. Graph Search lets you not only search for People and Pages, like the site currently allows, but also lets you throw much more complex queries at Continue Reading
Christmas Computer Hell 2012
This was going to be a blog about how to build a modern personal computer. In the end it turns out how NOT to build a modern personal computer, complete with hair-pulling frustrations, angry Tweets, companies being awful then being amazingly good, expensive mistakes and a plethora of helpful friends Continue Reading
Canonical Launches Ubuntu for Phones, Brings Linux to the Masses
More information on the official Ubuntu for Phones site. If you’re a developer, take a look at the application ecosystem that goes with Ubuntu for Phones here.