Category Archives: Trends

SQL Server 2012 and Power View for BI

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with the latest CTP of the new Business Intelligence offering from Microsoft, Power View (formerly known as  Project Crescent).  Power View is a powerful new ad hoc reporting and data visualization tool … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Conclusions

Over the past few weeks, we have examined a number of online development environments, to see if they offer anything different to desktop IDEs, and what impact they might have on future development trends. Online IDEs Compared We have looked … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 6

As part of our continuing series of posts on cloud-based development tools, we will consider the Eclipse Foundation’s Orion project. Orion Orion is one of the newest online IDEs to merge (it was only announced in January 2011), but it … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 5

As part of a series of articles on cloud based IDEs, we are going to look at Cloud9. Cloud9 The Cloud9 team aims to allow developers to create, run, debug and deploy applications using just a web browser.  Indeed, Cloud9’s … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 4

As part of the on-going series of posts looking at online code development platforms, today we will consider Compilr. Compilr Compilr differs from the previous web based tools we have looked at.  Unlike them, Compilr is an online compiler, so … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 3

As part of the series of blog posts on developing using cloud based tools, I will today review Kodingen. Kodingen Kodingen was created to give developers a free environment to create and host web applications during development, and to prevent … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 2

As part of the continuing series of posts on developing applications using cloud based IDEs, I will look at the CodeRun IDE in this post. CodeRun When you first open the CodeRun IDE in a browser, you’re struck by how … Continue reading

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Coding in the Cloud – Part 1

This is the first instalment in a series of posts looking at the use of online development environments (IDEs), their context within the emerging cloud-based development market, and will look at how they could change current software practices. Definitions Over … Continue reading

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