Android Jelly Bean finally reaches 10% penetration (6 months after launch)

January 3, 2013 4:30 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Google has released five major Android updates since 2010, most named for something sweet. Today, Android's developer site revealed that for the first time, more than 10 percent of Android smartphones in the market are running Jelly Bean, the latest version.

Apps can now use ‘flexible sentences’ to post to your Facebook account

January 3, 2013 1:30 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Facebook is eliminating the awkward construction of some of your news feed stories with this feature, a developer-cum-grammarian's dream.

Pluralsight closes $27.5M to stave off the Great Developer Shortage of 2013

January 3, 2013 12:53 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Online developer training portal Pluralsight takes $27.5M in its first round of funding.

Leap Motion announces first OEM bundling deal (with ASUS) … and a massive new $30M funding round

January 3, 2013 5:01 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The Leap adds physical gestures to the now-standard computer interface vocabulary of visuals, mice, keyboards, and touch, and "lots of other OEMs" are interested in the technology.

Ooomf debuts step-by-step guide to help you launch your app in 2013

January 1, 2013 10:14 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If you're thinking of launching an app this year, consider making it a New Year's resolution. And, perhaps, take advantage of Ooomf's new Launch This Year: a personalized step-by-step guide to making it happen.

Hiring and hirable in 2013: Agile developers

December 31, 2012 12:58 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If you're a software engineer skilled in agile development, be very, very happy. You're in high demand, with 4.59 job postings for each and every agile developer who is looking for a job.

Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’

December 27, 2012 9:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Editor's Pick Modal pop-ups! Crazy typography! Larger-than-life images! Here's all the best -- and worst -- from web & mobile design in 2012.

VictorOps ‘band of brothers’ wage war against IT outages

December 27, 2012 8:47 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Veterans of the Software-as-Service industry launch platform to help DevOps teams "be victorious" when managing their IT systems.

Aviary presents the new Peacock, a downloadable image editor

December 25, 2012 12:58 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Aviary, the startup that makes photo tools for developers, has just released a new version of Peacock, its formerly retired suite of tools for advanced image editing.

Over on the company blog, we read that Aviary gave the guy who …

Amazon, Heroku say ‘Merry Christmas’ to devs with downtime

December 25, 2012 8:12 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Looks like last night’s Netflix outages didn’t happen just because too many of us were escaping our families in the warm, familiar glow of bad TV shows. It’s Amazon’s fault. Specifically, Amazon Web Services, and more specifically yet, EC2.

UPDATE, …

New from Codeacademy: build your own virtual Christmas cards!

December 24, 2012 9:10 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Buying Christmas cards is way too easy -- nothing says you care like making them yourself. But if scissors, glue, and small flat bits of dead tree are all too 19th century for you, Codeacademy has the solution: Code Cards.