Mark Newton
Regular followers of Microsoft’s evolution of web development will know that for years they have been struggling to separate code from design and it could be argued that they have achieved this with ASP .NET. So why, I ask myself, would they produce a new language that seems to fly in the face of this […]
In my conversations with Microsoft this month the topic of development tools came up and why web developers choose certain ones and technologies over others. The choice of which technology to use I think is decided by a combination of the available hosting options, the familiarity of the programming language, the development tools and debugging […]
price £35.50 supplier O’Reilly UK Ltd [01252 711776] internet www.oreilly.com isbn 0-596-00171-1 verdict An excellent reference work written in an easy to follow style. Unless you have been on another planet, you cannot have missed the talk of .NET as the next step forward in web application development. You may have even have downloaded one of the development kits […]
One of the real hassles of trying new technologies is the amount of time that it often takes to install and configure all the support services like databases and web servers. When doing this you don’t want to mess up your working setup and so I suggest using a virtual machine and configure this, but […]
The question of what mobile platforms you should develop for is not as simply answered as you might think, with HTML5 technologies and you have seen you can develop for almost all platforms simultaneously but the more code you write and the more testing you do you soon start to discover that there are a […]
The other day Microsoft launched ‘Photosynth’, which is an interesting way of taking a bunch of photos and producing a 3D world from them. The results can be very impressive, enabling the viewer to browse and ‘walk’ around a scene, all on-line. To handle the problem of displaying high resolution images on the web and […]
PUBLISHER: O’Reilly PRICE: £20.95 ISBN: 0-596-00110-X At first it seems strange to see a book on Peer-to –Peer net working in this day and age when one remembers cutting ones teeth on networking with Windows 3.11. In a ‘proper’ network environment you have users with machines connecting to servers, which is called client – server. The information […]
All this coding is fine when the web application is trying to do something new or is heavily customised to a client’s needs, but it is important not to try to re-invent the wheel all the time. A case of this occurred the other day when a client wanted to us to put an on-line […]
Verdict: Authoring Server enables groups of designers using TeamFusion Clients to collaborate on multiple websites and for the whole process to be managed in a structured way. Whilst there are areas which could be improved, this is still a very capable and incredibly powerful product. Price: NAS 2000 begins at £1,370 for a 2 client […]
I was intrigued when an announcement came from Adobe for a new web design tool called ‘Muse’. Currently this is on free trial but will be a subscription based product like Office 365 and will cost $15 a month. Adobe’s Muse shows the way to go with HTML design tools My first impressions with this […]