Microsoft kills a major Windows development initiative & becomes one of the top contributors to Go.

Mike has a new love & gets a bit ironic about Ionic. He explains why this framework just might be his new home.

Plus some great feedback & we bask in the dawn of the age of utility.

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Hoopla:

Microsoft kills Astoria?

Microsoft is currently the top Go Contriubtor

• ​Microsoft adopts Google’s Go language into Azure

Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, announced at All Things Open, that Microsoft is adding “experimental support” for Google’s open-source Go language, into its Azure cloud service.

Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses

Remember the Robotic Dragonfly? The little drone was an early crowdfunding success story, netting over a $1 million in pledges on Indiegogo in 2012. At the time, it was one of the first crowdfunded gadgets to raise more than a million dollars. The project promised a tiny robot that can fly like a bird and hover like an insect — and for $99, too. Bad news, friends. This little drone is not taking off as scheduled.

The company announced yesterday that it is in deep financial trouble. But it’s not their fault, the founders say in notes on Indiegogo. It’s PayPal and Indiegogo’s fault for not releasing funds. How much? The company didn’t release that information.

The direction of computing is only going in one way—to the cloud

The direction of computing is going in just one way—towards the cloud. As companies and individuals learn what it can do, many new ways of working are opening up. For example, if you’re selling a service or providing an app via the cloud, all your users are permanently or very frequently connected. You can watch how they use your product, and feed that information straight back into your development cycle to alleviate points of pain or optimise and expand popular areas. That simply wasn’t possible before. You can analyse and act on real-time data to add far more intelligence to your product than your users’ devices can support, as Siri and Google Now already show. The constraints of pre-cloud computing are fading away, and the age of true utility is here.

Ionic Dev Diaries

Mike’s in the last phase of development for releasing an Ionic / Cordova app under BT.
Why Ionic?
The road so far.
Platform specific concerns?

• Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework
• Ionic – The HTML5 Mobile Platform

Feedback

• Experience, money, or fun???

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Mike is recovering from a weekend you wouldn’t believe. Plus we revisit the web vs native topic with a vengeance & discuss the sun-setting of ActiveX.

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Microsoft says Edge browser will not support Silverlight

“Support for ActiveX has been discontinued in Microsoft Edge, and that includes removing support for Silverlight,” writes the Microsoft Edge development team on its official blog.

Reddit restructuring

• Reddit users close much of site in revolt over firing

The protest has taken place largely in the form of user protests and moderators making several major subreddits private. When a subreddit is made private, only a select few are able to access it in any fashion. This means the subreddit is effectively closed to public and search engines alike, displaying a lockout page not unlike a 404. As the situation is rapidly advancing, the list of subreddits partaking in the protest is bound to change, but the largest and most common subreddits appear to be showing solidarity in the protest. If one were to visit Reddit’s front page right now, you would note the disappearance of /r/Art, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/books, and many others.

• Reddit revolt grows as petition to fire Pao tops 100,000

Web Vs Native, with a vengeance.

• Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework

Feedback:

• OSCON Meetup

• PISMO

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As much as we might like to have different fully native applications for every platform we target — that can be more than a little inefficient not to mention expensive.

This episode is all about compromise.

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Feedback

• Sigflup writes in to disagree with me regarding finding bugs while porting apps and share his awesome project
• Community recommendations on source control books
• Source Control by Example
• Rellon or Ruby hacker writes in to clarify what he wants to do with Ruby and puts his vote in for a testing episode.
• Bill has been teaching himself some coding but wants to be a systems programmer and wonders if there is money in that.
• James is working in C# as an ASP.Net developer, is learning Python, and has to make a decision regarding design patterns.
• Github clarifications
• A lot of you came to the defense of QT; Chris and I clarify.

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This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• Digia bought QT — please don’t go the way of Mono….
• Steve Yegge’s Liberal / Conservative Software Axis
• ZOMG TextMate 2!

Mikes a Sad Panda

• Sales progress….

Write Once Suck Everywhere

• Using the same code base across multiple platforms
• How Java fits in
• Other options?
• About those pesky designers….
• The Great Web Hope
• 20,000 Leagues Under Java!

Mike’s Plug

• Code Journal

Tool of the Week

• QTCreator

Book of the Week

• Foundations of QT Development

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By popular demand we have specially tailored an episode for fresh computer scientists who are about to enter the development arena. Things are different here, but if you follow some simple guidelines, you’ll have a much better time started out.

This episode is all about those little things academia forgot.

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• Emmet has made his own solution and put it on Github — and David recommends Uranos for him.
• A number of you still love Codeacademy.com
• Rellon is moving from Windows to Linux development and has fallen in love with Ruby (good choice). He would like some Ruby resources.
• Adam says he’s loves the show (Awesome BTW!) but is having something of a problem wrapping his head around the arcane world of software licences. GPL? BSD? MIT? Apache? What does it all mean?
• Pablo suggests we take a look at test driven development and unit testing one day — not a bad idea.
• Fernando asks how I stay focussed enough on side commercial projects to actually complete them; I wonder if he likes tomatoes?
• Colin says, “I see your email written in C and raise you a message in Haskell”. Yes, he wrote the email in Haskell.

PSA on Manners and the Real World

• Nixie has a problem: you.
• And back to your regularly scheduled programming.

First Rule About Source Control: USE IT!!!

• Everything in Source control no exceptions!
• Centralised vs distributed?
• Gui or command line?
• Commit message formatting?

I Regret to Inform You that the Compiler is Almost Always Right

• Don’t start with assumption that there is a bug in the vendor’s compiler / framework…
• Having trouble? Consider writing test…
• Test before you push, please….

Forget About Being Perfect, Be Good Enough and Get the Job Done

• Don’t waste a week writing a “perfect” algorithm when a less perfect one will meet your needs and take significantly less time.
• To that point it is almost always a good idea to use accepted solutions / algorithms for most problems you will encounter, rather than rolling your own.

Code Journal Experiment Update

• Lessons Learned: Code Journal Early Release

The Horror!

• This one is all too common…

JB Community App Update!

• GitHub Project Page
• Phonegap is slow….

Book of the Week

• Effective Programming: More than Writing Code

Tool of the Week

• Stackoverflow

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