Now from my previous posts concerning Jetbrains, it probably reads as though I'm a support of paying yearly to use software that may or may not get upgrades. Not quite true: I certainly expect to see a return on my continued investment in terms of bug fixes, if not ...

Last year, Jetbrains (makers of arguably the world's best IDE toolset) dropped a bombshell when it announced that it was moving to a subscription model – just like Microsoft, just like Adobe. The uproar was expected, though I think even Jetbrains was taken aback by the level of vitriol smeared ...

Not quite sure how this conversation came about, but I got into an online chat with a fellow developer over the underpinnings of the Swift programming language. I always thought that it took most of its cues from Scala and C#, with perhaps a passing not towards Jetbrain's fledgling ...

It's a lot like coming out of the bunker after a nuclear holocaust. Three weeks ago, Jetbrains, the purveyor of extraordinarily excellent development tools, announced that they were switching from perpetual licences to a subscription model. That's right, rather than buying a licence outright, you paid a regular ...

It happened, the dust has settled, and after a few days mulling things over it's time to take a look at what the latest Apple keynote means in terms of Apple's future. Since Apple still has to rely on external suppliers, product information leaks out months before the ...

So another WWDC keynote has come and gone. It definitely wasn't the polished effort of years past, and in places I think the audience was a little bored. (I know I was.) Right off the bat, I think this was entirely the wrong place to launch the new music ...