Neil McAllister
Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of
Sencha's drag-and-drop tool for building Web and mobile apps is friendly to designers if they're also developers
7 programming myths -- busted!
Even among people as logical and rational as software developers, you should never underestimate the power of myth. Some programmers will believe what they choose to believe against all better judgment.
LibreOffice 3.5: The best Office killer yet
Latest version of open source productivity suite brings better Office interoperability and improved user experience, but rough edges remain
10 programming languages that could shake up IT
Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled languages, interpreted...
Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities
The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance
First look: Adobe Edge makes HTML5 dance
Adobe's JavaScript-based animation tool is rough around the edges, but shows incredible promise
Are Google's best days behind it?
Slowing product development, legal woes, and rising bureaucracy may signal trying times ahead for Silicon Valley's favorite company
Google Chromebook lacks luster -- and purpose
Google thinks you should do all of your computing on the Web. To prove its point, the company has been working to replace traditional desktop software with Web-based alternatives, such as Gmail and Google Docs. When Internet Explorer...
Flash on Android: Look but don't touch
The sweeping deficiencies of Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets can't all be chalked up to its 'beta' status
Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun...
First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish
Microsoft's cloud productivity suite has big ambitions, but feels poorly integrated and may leave admins wanting more