New Relic COO discusses growth in 2012, plans for 2013

New Relic COO and president Chris Cook stopped by VentureBeat’s San Francisco headquarters recently to chat about the company’s products and services for developers.

He had a lot of positive words about the company’s growth in 2012 — it’s currently …

Heroku chief opens up about Rap Genius, legendary hires, & developers’ woman problem

Amid its first big PR problem, Heroku's leader ignores PR and talks about how respect, trust, failure, and success stand to shape his company and the developer community.

How Code.org is promoting an agenda of diversity & equality in the tech world

Code.org is an advocacy campaign focused at getting more kids interested in computer science. It's also working to get more states, schools, and teachers on board with the program.

What developers do with HTML5 (infographic)

70 percent of North American developers are already using HTML5, as are roughly 60 percent of South American, European, and Chinese developers.

Facebook updates SDK for iOS to help developers know what’s going on (and make more money)

With tracking capabilities like these, the new SDK is almost starting to impinge on dedicated app analytics solutions like App Annie and Flurry, but of course in a purely Facebook-focused manner.

Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.

Google Glass ‘foundry’ event: lucky developers get their hands on Google’s awesome A/R glasses

Google Developers posted pictures today of its super-secret, ultra-confidential, if-you-tell-anyone-about-it-we'll-kill-you Google Glass Foundry event, where developers got to touch, wear, develop for, and maybe even fondle the hottest Google hardware product ever not yet released.

PHP developers: Zend Server 6 goes freemium to entice you to part with your cold hard cash

Zend has a problem. While there are five million PHP developers around the globe, only some small fraction of them pay Zend for its server and IDE tools for making PHP sites faster, better, and more debuggable.

Silicon Valley salaries: Developers make big bank in 2012 (infographic)

The smart, social, mobile, and above all digital world we're building is the new industrial revolution, and the bricklayers and grease monkeys of this era are Ruby developers and database administrators.

Firebase’s scalable backend makes it ’10 times easier’ to build apps

Firebase's cofounder James Tamplin (pictured, left) wants to make the process of developing an app "ten times easier," so he built a product that will do the hard work for you.