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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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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,
I have been following fiducial marker recognition toolkits since 2009 when I was an visiting researcher at Dr. Takeo Igarashi’s ERATO Lab in Tokyo, Japan. These marker recognition toolkits are
Having attended several tech talks in the past several weeks, I summarize what is happening cloud computing. I will present a definition, core services, and integrators.
Cloud computing means to consume
I attended the San Francisco JavaScript meetup #25 on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. This meetup is presented by Greg Tomei, who discussed developing test-driven web apps. A HTML5 web app uses JavaScript to