Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 released!

26. July 2011 in .NET, Delphi, DelphiExperts, Developer Experts, Prism by holger | View Comments

Just a quick note… Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 has been released officially! I have been using Beta 2 on a regular basis and it was already as stable and reliable as a full product. I am expecting the RTM version to be even better and to offer even more great features.

LightSwitch is a great tool to build business applications as it allows you to build a conceptual data model and a user interface. All the in-between plumbing is being taken care of by LightSwitch. A prototype is built pretty quickly and the framework allows for a great deal of customization if one wants to. You can write code at all sort of places so that you do not even recognize that it is a LightSwitch app.

And the best thing… you develop one app and you can deploy it to the web, to the desktop and into the cloud!

Go here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

Busy, busy, busy … and then there is Visual Studio LightSwitch

5. July 2011 in .NET, Delphi, Uncategorized by holger | View Comments

Sorry, that there are no new posts on this blog recently. I am in the process of writing my Phd. thesis and it keeps me completely busy. I hardly have time for anything else. However, I recently stumbled upon Visual Studio LightSwitch and it is simply amazing.

It is the coolest framework I have seen in a long time. All the ideas that start piling up in my… Continue reading

Computer Programming: Are we moving backwards?

7. April 2011 in .NET, Apple, Delphi by holger | View Comments

I just read a paper written by Per Brinch Hansen. He is most commonly known in the IT world for his papers on concurrent programming theory. Actually, I wanted to formally read into Remote Procedure Calls and that is how I found his theories.

Interestingly, he wrote in 1993 to C.A.R. Hoare:

The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which programmers took a gigantic step backwards… Continue reading

Making Apps Developer Days by Developer Experts and MacWelt

26. October 2010 in Apple, Delphi, DelphiExperts, Developer Experts, Uncategorized, Xcode, iPad, iPhone by holger | View Comments

With regard to my recent posts I would like to point out two events that will be held in Germany in November. Both events focus on development for iOS 4 and are scheduled as a two-day workshop.

Day 1 will give an introduction to iOS 4 development, Objective-C in particular, and the development tools needed to write apps. Whereas day 2 will be more hands-on and will give attendees… Continue reading

iOS: Does this property or method retain my object instance?

22. October 2010 in Apple, Uncategorized, Xcode, iPad, iPhone by holger | View Comments

I already mentioned in earlier posts that it is quite tricky when beginning with iOS to decide whether one has to release an object instance or not.
Sure, we have the golden rule number one:
If I use alloc, copy or new to create an object instance, I own it and need to call release as soon as I do not need it anymore (or autorelease).
This sounds simple, but… Continue reading

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