Further to my previous post: I'm used to thinking of iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) as undermining the PC. From that perspective, my response as a developer is partly skewed by frustration at seeing relatively open platforms replaced by more closed ones. Thinking about an iOS device as an alternative to the games console—the classic successful… Continue reading More on Apple TV and games consoles
Month: May 2012
This could be bad news for games consoles
Rumours abounding (nice example here from John Gruber) that Apple may be about to announce an updated Apple TV operating system with apps support, possibly integrated into an Apple-branded TV set rather than being available only as a separate box as at present. (How would you control it? Through a separate iOS device like an… Continue reading This could be bad news for games consoles
Small conclusions about APIs and testing
In my previous post I explained a small but significant API change for v0.9 of the Dataquay library. Although there was nothing very deep about this change or its causes, I found it interesting partly because I had used a partly test-driven process to evolve the original API and I felt there may be a… Continue reading Small conclusions about APIs and testing
Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay hasn't seen a great deal of use yet. I've used it in a handful of personal projects that follow the same sort of model as the application it was first designed for, and that's all. But I've recently started to adapt it to a couple of programs whose RDF usage follows more traditional Linked… Continue reading Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay
Dataquay is my C++ library for RDF datastore management using the Qt toolkit. It's a library for people who happen to be writing C++ applications using Qt and who are interested in managing data that fit well into a subject-predicate-object graph model (as in the Linked Data paradigm, for example). It uses Qt classes and… Continue reading Dataquay
SkyDrive: OK, let’s face it, it’s a bit pants
This is the second time I've been forestalled in writing a positive note about Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage and apps service, by going to the site and finding it isn't actually working at all: I hadn't asked for Hotmail. This is just where the site redirected me when I tried to log in to SkyDrive… Continue reading SkyDrive: OK, let’s face it, it’s a bit pants
The Breakfast Post 