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softwaredevelopment

I wish I were a software developer!

by Tom Raftery on July 9, 2009 · 64 comments

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I was peripherally aware of Augmented Reality before attending the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona a few weeks back but hadn’t really thought through its consequences/possibilities until I saw the video above by Dutch startup company Layar.
I realised that Layar’s offering was geographically limited but its potential (esp in the Green space) was enormous – [...]

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The best software is Green!

by Tom Raftery on October 24, 2008 · 0 comments

in softwaredevelopment

At the SAP TechEd 08 conference in Berlin, I had a chance to sit down with SAP’s SDN community evangelist, Craig Cmehil.
We talked about the fact that many coders would consider ‘good code’ to be code which gives maximum functionality in the minimum CPU cycles with the smallest file footprint and minimum memory requirement. Coders [...]

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Build carbon software efficiently (practice what you preach!)

by Tom Raftery on August 7, 2008 · 4 comments

in softwaredevelopment

Photo Credit ralphbijker
I have been having some very interesting conversations with people in the carbon software sector these last couple of weeks.
The first was with Michael Meehan of Carbonetworks (which I blogged about here) and we discussed their offering which is a “carbon strategy platform”. From my blog post about Carbonetworks:
The app at its most [...]

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IBM, Big Green, Rational and Eco-aware Programming

by monkchips on February 12, 2008 · 8 comments

in bit miles, softwaredevelopment

I am at an event at IBM South Bank looking at some data center futures. The current session is with Christopher O’Connor, vice-president strategy and market management, Tivoli, who just raised an issue that I have been thinking about a lot lately. Just what will it mean to develop greener software? What would a green [...]

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