/// Tag Archives: developers
HTML 5 Makes The Browser Smarter
January 26, 2012
The unsung hero of the web has always been Javascript, without which the standards-based web would be completely static. Javascript enables functionality to be executed...
Covering up the cracks in HTML5
November 11, 2011
Long gone are the days when Internet Explorer had 95% of the browser market. We have lived in multi-browser world since the start of the...
Are IT degrees a waste of time?
October 03, 2011
Forget ‘investing’ £9,000 per year in university tuition fees, buy a few books and teach yourself from your own bedroom. So says a new report...
HTML5 brings new capabilities for communication
May 26, 2011
The web started birth with very much a “click and wait” experience. Any interaction with the server meant a round trip of data across a...
Size isn’t everything
May 03, 2011
There is a lot of confusion around “big data”. People naturally assume that big data means lots of data. Which is true. But it isn’t...
Has Chrome already beaten Firefox?
March 17, 2011
It has always been a habit of mine to launch Firefox as my browser. It’s just something I have done for so many years I...
Are you using live customer data outside of your production database?
March 11, 2011
Say that you want to develop a new payment gateway for your online store. A team of developers are hired, the improvements you want are...
Twitter denies whitelisting requests
March 07, 2011
Twitter has announced that they will no longer whitelist applications to get them around rate-limiting on their APIs. It’s not a conventional security issue, but...
True innovation comes from ingenious people
February 08, 2011
As you may have noticed we are getting more open about our history and commitment to ‘open innovation’. Now, ‘open innovation’ is not yet our...
AppInventor to drop out of school
February 04, 2011
Something odd is happening. While children have never been more involved in computing, fewer and fewer young people are studying technology. Any parent of young children...
Did the FBI plant backdoor vulnerabilities in OpenBSD IPSEC?
January 17, 2011
Recently an interesting story broke out where Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD project Manager) received an email from Gregory Perry, former CTO of NETSEC claiming that...
Is Facebook Taking Over The ‘Evil’ Mantle?
April 28, 2010
Unless you have been marooned in a European airport by the Icelandic volcano you will have noticed that Facebook has thrown a rather large boulder...
VMForce: Salesforce.com Hits With Java – But Misses On Portability
April 28, 2010
I am sure I speak for a lot of us here at SugarCRM and in the apps business in general when I say that...
Farmville 3.8 Times More Popular Than Twitter
December 04, 2009
A Facebook application allowing people to be virtual farmers, similar to SimCity and the like, has more users than the whole of Twitter, according to...
