Software Engineering

The Cloud In South Africa

Written by roeland on date 10 May 2012 in Software Engineering .

The Cloud Computing World Forum Africa took place this week (8 May 2012) in Sandton , Johannesburg and it had an amazing turnout and judging by the turnout it is quite clear that there is a lot of interest in cloud computing among SMEs and Enterprises in South Africa.

 
The expo was quite small and only had stands from the sponsors of the event, however, I was quite surprised that I never saw some of the big names (OpenStack, VMWare, Ubuntu, Rackspace, Amazon) that are innovating and pioneering cloud technology. Never the less it was encouraging to see how companies such ...

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RTI Connext Middleware Unifies Patient Data

Written by roeland on date 07 May 2012 in News , Software Engineering .

 

Real Time Innovations (RTI), a developer of service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware for the aerospace and defense industries, is branching out into health care with its new Connext software suite.
 
Connext provides a DataBus to link information within applications across medical devices and IT systems. The software incorporates peer-to-peer messages to connect data across enterprises without message brokers or daemon processes, according to RTI.
 

"Doctors and nurses in a hospital who have an Apple iPad can use Connext to access patients' permanent electronic health records..."

 
Doctors and nurses in a hospital who have an Apple iPad can use Connext to access ...

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Qt 5 Alpha Launches

Written by roeland on date 23 April 2012 in News , Software Engineering .

In what is seen as a major overhaul to the cross-platform application and user interface framework, Qt 5 Alpha has been released in advance of the full-blown iteration, which is expected later this year.

Under its Nokia parent, Qt appears to have transitioned to a state where it accommodates for (and promotes the adoption of) so-called "fluid touch based experiences" common to contemporary devices. Used extensively across the smartphone (and desktop) landscape, Qt also enjoys considerable deployment within embedded applications seen in areas such as medicine and healthcare.
 
The developmental direction of Qt 5 suggests that there has been a ...

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Zitera Engineers Take Top Prizes For Nokia Mobile Apps

Written by roeland on date 16 February 2012 in News , Software Engineering .

 

Two engineers from Zitera, Alex Lucouw and Roeland van Nieuwkerk, recently entered a mobile application development evening school program that was hosted by the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) and Nokia South Africa. All applicants were tasked to come up with an idea for the next KILLER app and were then guided through the typical development cycle of a mobile application. Nokia provided C7 phones which the applicants used to test their apps on. Using the new Nokia QtQuick framework Alex and Roeland produced two impressive apps in a short space of time.

Alex took the prize for most ...

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