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 …
When Microsoft Windows 8 launches in 2012, it’s going after developers with one thing that truly matters to many of them: money.
The new operating system will feature the Windows Store to sell third-party apps. It’s a direct competitor to …
Code host GitHub has acquired dev shop Ordered List, hired all its employees and adopted the company’s entire product line as its own.
It’s just a love-fest out there today, people.
And given the developer-focused products Ordered List makes (and …
Today, businesses can do all their application development in the cloud, thanks to Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology. This is a fast-moving trend in enterprise technology, and while it sounds dry, things start to get very interesting when it …
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Ryan Sarver had just come back to work after his wedding.
Notice I said “wedding” and not “honeymoon.” Sarver has for some time been Twitter’s first line of defense between the company and a occasionally disgruntled army of third-party developers. …
Currently, U.S.-based developers outscore their competitors in China when tested on common programming languages. However, U.S. developers lag behind in math and logic.
A new study from Gild, a service for creating and comparing developers’ skill profiles, asserts that Chinese …
Foundation, a new framework for web design, helps you make beautiful, consistent experiences across all kinds of personal computers, TVs and mobile devices, including tablets and a range of smartphones.
Seeing Framework’s magic in action is, well, a bit magical. …
Today, Facebook extended Facebook Platform on mobile to give its huge network of third-party developers better tools and more access to on-the-go users.
This news comes directly on the heels of Facebook’s iPad app launch, a long-anticipated event itself.
Noting …
X.commerce, eBay’s developer arm, named the five venture capitalists today who will be involved in next week’s “VC Bait” panel at its Innovate conference.
The Innovate conference, as well as the VC Bait panel, are all about creating for the …
Atlassian, maker of cost-hosting service Bitbucket, has acquired SourceTree, a Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems and Subversion source control.
For a limited time, Atlassian is making SourceTree free for all in an attempt to attract …
Starting today, Facebook app developers have a new way to host their apps, thanks to the social network’s collaboration with Heroku, a frontrunner in cloud hosting services.
In advance of f8, Facebook’s developer conference, which takes place next week, Heroku …
Verious, an online marketplace for pre-made mobile application components, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
The marketplace features pre-built, pre-tested mobile app components such as translation services or location-based camera features for sale. Developers can …
You know it’s hard out here for a hacker, tryin’ to get money for his rent.
At least, that’s how it’s been up until now. Most freelance developers typically rely on contract jobs. But Appirio, a company that ports applications …
Social networking site Facebook will launch its long-rumored music service at its annual developer conference f8 this year, according to a report by CNBC.
Facebook will not actually host its own music but will partner with other services to stream …
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This is the second of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. The first installment focused on hardware. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir …
Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.
This small …
Cloud application platform Heroku has announced support for Java, one of the most popular programming languages in existence.
Java will join Ruby, Node.js and Clojure on Heroku’s Celadon Cedar runtime stack.
While Ruby in particular is popular in the world …
“I don’t cargo cult often, but when I do, I do it with Node.js.”
So runs a wry joke we recently read about Node.js, the somewhat suddenly popular server-side programming technology that’s been all the rage among developers in our …
Interstate, a new application that launched today at Y Combinator‘s Demo Days, is a simple tool that allows company founders, project managers and others to share their future plans with customers, clients and even employees.
The tool works for developers …
