• Digital Shoreditch: Creating the future with technology

    Updated: 2012-05-31 14:40:25
    From IBM to Qualcomm, technology professionals came together at Digital Shoreditch’s Next tech day yesterday to look at how technology and creativity are coming together. Intel led live table top discussions, including an Ultrabook demonstration and Android symposium, as well as presenting the morning’s keynote speech. The focus of the keynote speech, delivered by Intel’s AppUp E-Commerce Manager Colin Smith, [...]

  • Parallel LPT printer I/O Ports Programming for 32 and 64 bit windows

    Updated: 2012-05-30 12:54:00
    Parallel LPT printer I/O Ports Programming for 32 and 64 bit Windows.

  • Intel releases Ice Cream Sandwich Android emulator

    Updated: 2012-05-29 16:11:59
    There’s been some buzz on the blogs over the last few days about Intel releasing a much improved x86 emulator for Ice Cream Sandwich. Developers can use it to test their Android apps on their PCs, so they can quickly pick up any bugs, especially those that are specific to the Intel Architecture. The emulator [...]

  • Should everyone learn to code?

    Updated: 2012-05-28 16:07:48
    With the release of the Raspberry Pi this year (mine has despatched, apparently!), there’s been lots of discussion about whether more people should learn how to program. One reason the UK has such a strong base of software developers is that many of them grew up on machines like the Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad and [...]

  • Singleton pattern VB.NET using static variable

    Updated: 2012-05-24 04:34:51
    The most elegant implementation for VB.NET and safe as simple.

  • Five things software developers can learn from Draw Something

    Updated: 2012-05-22 11:56:08
    Draw Something is a hugely popular game on Android and iOS, where players take it in turns to draw pictures for each other to identify. You might be challenged to draw Obama, a wedding or ham, and then your friend uses the supplied letters (like a set of Scrabble tiles) to identify what you’ve drawn. [...]

  • Meet the Ultrabook and more at Digital Shoreditch

    Updated: 2012-05-21 15:13:20
    Starting today, Digital Shoreditch is taking place in London, bringing together the creative, technical and entrepreneurial communities in East London. The event runs for two weeks, so there are plenty of opportunities to drop in and learn something new. Throughout the event, various companies are throwing their doors open to showcase their skills and expertise. [...]

  • The BBC’s guide to developing mobile games

    Updated: 2012-05-15 14:50:14
    Whether you’re an Android developer or a PC developer, here’s a nice short film (about 3.5 minutes), looking at how to break into the games industry, including interviews with some successful app studios and some student developers. There were a couple of things that struck me about this. Firstly, it says there are 329 games [...]

  • Coming up: three new chips from Intel

    Updated: 2012-05-14 14:20:28
    Last week, Intel gave investors their annual briefing, and revealed that there are three new chips we can expect to see released this year. One of these is the Knights Corner co-processor, the many integrated core (MIC) chip which will be familiar to regular blog readers. I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, [...]

  • Free tool to measure your battery use on Android

    Updated: 2012-05-09 12:08:44
    People care about battery life. They want to know that when they pick up their phone it will work for them, and that their friends can reach them at any time. That’s why it’s basic courtesy for developers to make sure their software is energy efficient. If they’re squandering battery power, users will soon desert [...]

  • ISTEP 2012: What’s new in Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2013?

    Updated: 2012-05-08 01:58:12
    If you use Intel VTune Amplifier to profile performance in your applications, you might be interested to know what could be in store in the next version. It’s currently in beta, but at the Intel Software Conference, recently, we heard what’s in the beta. New features include: Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 support Support [...]

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