The ramblings of a yorkshire tyke » JVM http://www.gennard.net/blog Life, Rants and Programming In A Blog Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Metro up Java http://www.gennard.net/blog/2011/09/metro-up-java/ http://www.gennard.net/blog/2011/09/metro-up-java/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:54:54 +0000 spgennard http://www.gennard.net/blog/?p=809 Microsoft’s Metro environment is a bit of a closed environment for the Open Source language vendor, so although you can code Metro applications in C/C++, C#, HTML/JavaScript/CSS on both Intel and ARM chipsets the choice of other languages are non-existent. …

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