Monthly Archives: May 2012

Windows 8 Preview

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Its here. The long awaited final preview of the next Microsoft O/S. So whats it likely to contain. Mainly more representative apps than the “blocky” ones in the consumer preview.- more drivers for more new hardware and better compatibility with existing hardware due to the feedback from the previous “release”. What the new release hints […]

Windows 8 Release Preview arrives

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Its here. The long awaited final preview of the next Microsoft O/S. So whats it likely to contain. Mainly more representative apps than the “blocky” ones in the consumer preview.- more drivers for more new hardware and better compatibility with existing hardware due to the feedback from the previous “release”. What the new release hints […]

A resource for Xpages development

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The subject of Xpages development and the need for decent resources for new developers or existing Domino developers wishing to avail of the new technologies came up in a meeting yesterday. As a result I and some colleagues have decided to build an xpages “collective” portal – to start linking to and adding to the resources […]

VMware Partner Conference notes

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Today saw the Vmware partner conference in Leeds. In a well attended launch session we got a great view of Vmware’s performance over the last year and the target for this year and the role that partners play in Vmwares success. Working on the virtues of Vmware versus the competition was the target of the […]

Lotuslive is finally Smartcloud

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Annual renewal time for Lotuslive has come round but as part of that the name on the license now reflects the Smartcloud moniker. Not much else has changed but it at least standardizes the name across all the smart branded services. I have been a little disappointed by the lack of further development of services […]

Going for a drive across the internet

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During a piece of research work I was looking for a solution similar to Webdrive which I have mentioned before – most recently here. In this case though I wanted a webdav client that could map a network drive. I came across this application Netdrive – which matched the requirements exactly. The developers say With NetDrive, […]

Licensing and the cost of application development

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I attended a presentation of a toolset to facilitate IOS native app development with domino data access today and was working through the practicalities and costs of implementing an application based on this technology and Domino Xwork server. Given the license implications per app and per annum that seem to be the norm with development kits […]