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“Big data” is everywhere you look these days.
As digital information continues to expand exponentially, this affects everything — how much we pay for health insurance, how we predict the weather, how we play the stock market.
The music industry …
Saeed Malekpour, an Canadian resident who designed and maintained a photo-sharing web app, may be executed at any moment in Iran.
According to a site about Malekpour’s case, the programmer’s death sentence, which was issued by the Iranian Supreme Court …
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Recently, a 12-year-old Irish boy named Harry Moran wrote a mobile app called PizzaBot. It hit the Mac App Store and within a week, it had surpassed Angry Birds, attracting fans from around the world.
Harry was an instant YouTube …
The Google+ Platform is still a relatively small collection of read-only APIs, but Google is definitely preparing for a wide and varied set of features for developers.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Thursday, Google+ engineering director …
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Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most …
Google is making a bid for third-party developers’ interest with a new Google+ page for Google+ platform developers.
Google+ developer-relations team lead Chris Chabot writes on the G+ platform blog that the new page will be a source of office-hours-style …
Codecademy, the white-hot startup that teaches even total novices how to code, has launched a new tool: Creators lets anyone create a course on Codecademy and teach technology to over a million budding developers.
“We’re going from being a content …
Ryan Dahl, the hacker who brought the world Node.js, is turning over the reins to Joyent’s Isaac Schlueter.
Dahl, who started working on the Node project in 2009, stated in a Google Groups post Monday, “After three years of working …
Google has just opened up a new channel for Android developers to learn about the platform, ask questions, and get updates.
The +Android Developers page launched today to help devs stay abreast of changes in the rapidly iterating mobile operating …
Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.
Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you …
Here’s some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals.
37signals, …
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Let’s say you’re an NFL running back.
When the quarterback hands you the ball, what do you do? You run. You run hard, and you run fast. If you hesitate for just a second, you immediately get demolished by a …
While Android has for sometime been outpacing iOS on the consumer side in terms of growth and market share, developers have still clung to iOS for building new apps.
However, new research shows that 2012 might be the year that …
Ryan Carson, the web design guru behind Carsonified, wants to teach you how to code. And he says he can do it in just five minutes using a web-based game.
Carson’s latest endeavor is Code Racer, a multi-player game designed …
Developers plan to invest most of their time, talent and energy in mobile and API projects over the coming year — and will continue to code in a variety of languages, according to a new report.
Zend released its Developer …
Twitter has just announced a new pilot program that will give developers access to the handles and metadata for Verified Accounts.
Verified Accounts are Twitter accounts held by persons of note — musicians, actors, celebrities and other public figures.
“This …
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Node.js has been getting great press for being used to build real-time web applications and fast networking tools that help big web sites run and scale.
But is Node just as good a fit for web agencies and developers that …
The developer of Minecraft, Markus Persson (aka Notch), has created a new game called ‘Minicraft’, in just two days. The game is entered in the Ludum Dare indie game development competition, which invites single handed developers to create and submit …
App makers, how do get your mobile app on your Facebook Page? Mixed Media Labs, the startup that aims to be the friend of every mobile developer, has an answer in its latest feature: the App.net Facebook tab.
The Facebook …
Facebook has just announced the HipHop Virtual Machine. We’re not talking about Kanye — not this time, at least.
HipHop is Facebook’s open-source source-code transformer for PHP.
This means that Facebook found a way to make huge applications built in …
