After three years of writing here several times a week, I’m going to take a bit of a break from this blog. I’ll be blogging for Develop Online and Mobile Entertainment each week (sponsored by Intel), and this blog will be updated occasionally, but I won’t be able to dedicate the time to it that [...]Sometimes open source can be a misunderstood part of the software industry – is it made up of developers that are working for free? Or are these developers getting a free education? Do we have any idea how many people are developing using open source? A recent article by analyst house Forrester showed that five [...]Lots of people will be hoping to find an Ultrabook device under their Christmas tree this year, so the new year presents exciting opportunities for developers to create killer apps for this new platform. What will make a successful Ultrabook app? Developers will need to satisfy users’ expectations that good software will enable them to [...]We would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for those pesky bugs! They say that writing is rewriting, and perhaps programming is debugging. At the very least, it’s a vital part of the quality control process. There’s an insightful and detailed article about debugging Android apps that might help you to get [...]A new beta programme has begun for the Intel HTML5 Development Environment, which helps you to efficiently build HTML5 apps that run on multiple platforms and devices. The app is cloud-based, and it only works with the Google Chrome browser. Clearly, Intel is hoping you will use it to make apps for Ultrabook devices and [...]The number of ways you can interact with your mobile devices has expanded further in 2012 than in previous years. This year we have seen convertible laptops hit the market, which turn from a PC into a tablet in one careful snap. New sensors like gyroscopes, compasses and accelerometers have arrived to give us more scope [...]Intel is sponsoring the Android Christmas party at The Counting House this Thursday – an informal evening of food, drinks, and Android chat. Kicking off the evening, there’s going to be a quick presentation on developing apps for Android on Windows 8 and Ultrabooks. I’m looking forward to finding a bit more about this from [...]