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Category Archives:Development
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

This is a cross-post from the DeveloperFusion news site. Remember the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)? I hope you’re sitting comfortably. Yesterday news emerged of an HP researcher who has claimed that he has proved that P != NP. The P=NP problem is one considered so fundamental to the future study of computer science that the Clay [...]

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Friday, August 6th, 2010

Earlier this month Google announced App Inventor, an easy way for anyone to get started on building Android applications. Earlier this week I got myself an invite, and headed over to see what’s what. App Inventor is in its very early stages. It’s a closed beta, with invites going out to people when Google have [...]

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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

I often see people ranting one way or another in favour or against various source control packages. The most common one is Git vs SVN; SVN having been very popular for a long time, Git being somewhat the ‘young pretender’. As a result, in the open source space, there’s quite a mix of open source [...]

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Monday, July 26th, 2010

The latest version of Microsoft’s IDE for development on Windows and other Microsoft platforms has recently been released, which is Visual Studio 2010. You may have seen my post some time ago about the long list of new features and improvements that have made it into the latest version. At the recent UK Tech Days [...]

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

I’ve been playing around with getting started building Android (I’d like to get 2.0 working on my Joggler). To build Android under Linux, you need the sun-java5-jdk package. This is due to a conflict in the @Override command, which means you can’t use the Java 6 JDK for this task. Unfortunately the sun-java5-jdk package isn’t [...]

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