Explosion of functional programming: part 2
[Edited August 24, 2012: Corrected procedural language example. Thanks to Bill Nye for identifying a mistake in the previous version]
Functional programming languages are gaining significant traction
Firefox OS / Boot to Gecko: a phone OS written in a web browser
[Update] Announced July 2nd, Boot to Gecko is now Firefox OS.
On June 26th, 2012 I attended the HTML 5 meetup in Microsoft’s local sale office. This HTML 5 meetup invited Rob Hawkes and Chris Heilman
Creating HTML 5 mobile applications
On Thursday June 21st I attended the PhoneGap meetup at Adobe’s office, which was the old site of Macromedia. In this PhoneGap meeting Marcos Lara presented his Audiovroom project. He introduced
Future of the Microsoft presentation languages – XAML, Silverlight, Windows Forms
As a follow up to my previous blog posting about HTML 5, I hypothesize the demise of existing Microsoft technologies currently being used today. These technologies are Silverlight and XAML with C# code-behind.
Significant adoption of HTML 5 + Javascript
I have noticed recently a massive drive by large and small companies towards supporting HTML 5 for writing applications. Most notable are Windows 8 applications, which can be written in HTML 5 + Javascript,
Explosion of functional programming
Functional programming has gone a long way since its early inception. Having learnt Haskell in university, it was never really a production-ready language. Its functions could not be exported elsewhere.
Building Java source code
Compiling source code has gone a long way since passing in a list of filenames for C/C++ compiler. For compiling Java source code, many alternatives for compiling .java source code files into .jar archives
Developing cross-platform code for mobile devices
Given the proliferation of several mobile device platforms, namely iOS and Android, applications should be available on all these platforms. Rather than rewrite code to make the applications available
Adoption of cloud services
This posting is a follow-up to “Cloud Computing: The Players.” We can separate cloud computing services into Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure
Seminar: Windows Azure launch
On Thursday, June 7, 2012 I attended Meet Windows Azure, a promotion of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Azure has been in development for several years now. Azure is an Infrastructure-as-a-Cloud,