Are you going to the Hackathon in London this weekend? If so, I’d love to hear what you’re planning to do there! Tickets have sold out, but if you’re one of the lucky developers, designers or entrepreneurs that has got one already, this could be a turning point in your (or your company’s) development. Over [...]Wrox has published a new book about Intel Parallel Studio XE, written by Stephen Blair-Chappell and Andrew Stokes, and you can download a free chapter from it now. The book ‘Parallel Programming with Intel Parallel Studio XE’ begins with an overview of the parallel programming landscape today in a chapter that distils a lot of [...]I’ve just come across some interesting research on how to make applications optimised for the touch interface. This is increasingly important as people who are used to using tablet devices like the iPad start to explore touch interfaces in their main Windows computer, such as the Ultrabook, an ultralight computer that will incorporate touch screens. [...]Android has been in the news recently for a lot of different reasons but one story which caught my attention was the claim that Android is hitting 900,000 device activations a day. This is a huge amount, equating to 27 million activations a month. I’m not sure whether I believe the figures but by any [...]I know how much readers of this blog enjoy free ebooks, so I thought I’d share my latest discovery with you. It’s called “The Young Videogame Developer’s Journal: Ages 12-22 on the virtual frontier” and it’s written by Chris DeLeon, who has created 45 PC freeware games, contributed to games for PS3, Xbox 360 and [...]Last week, Mike Bell, head of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, created a bit of furore when he said that mobile handsets running dual-core processors are ‘detrimental’ to the phone’s performance. In short, he said that the performance of the second processor core didn’t justify the size and the cost of putting in the part. [...]Android is showing incredible momentum: the latest data from IDC says that its share of the smartphone market is now 59%, leaving Apple behind at 23%. Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile has just 2.2%, trailing behind BlackBerry OS (9.7%) and Symbian (6.8%). I was surprised at how far ahead Android is. That might be because the [...]Facebook has released an internal C++ library as open source, so you can benefit from the company’s vast engineering expertise. Called Folly, the library includes code that has been optimised for performance, and is compatible for use alongside existing libraries. This is some of the code that actually runs Facebook, across thousands of servers for [...]Last week at Digital Shoreditch, I had an opportunity to try out an Ultrabook, one of the new wave of lightweight and thin (but powerful) computers. I was particularly impressed at how light it was and how bright and large the screen was, so I can see how the device could have a big impact [...]