Adobe acquires Behance iOS app maker Thumb Labs

Behance (and Thumb Labs) represent Adobe's best attempt to be social and give designers and developers more and better tools for showcasing their work.

450M lines of code say large open source and small closed source software projects are worst quality

The good news is that software keeps getting better, with fewer than one error per thousand lines of code. The bad news is that both large open-source projects and small proprietary software projects tend to have worse quality than average.

Divshot grabs $1.1M to become an ‘Adobe Creative Suite’ for web development

Even if you're a master coder, a good visual interface can make a world of difference when doing things like building responsive web apps.

PHP’s Andi Gutmans: 70% of fixing a bug is finding it (and we’re going to fix that)

"There's a lot of pressure in companies to deliver mobile, cloud-enabled apps," Gutmans says. "Half of teams are telling us that that they've missed dates because they cannot work together."

Why Forrst got bought back from Colourlovers, & what its creator is doing next

Once upon a time, a hacker built a product. Then he sold it to a company that treated it poorly. Now, another company bought it back and promises to treat it right.

New from Codeacademy: build your own virtual Christmas cards!

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.

Photoshop’s cloudy future: Adobe announces new Dropbox-like features

Adobe is giving old media people easy tools for learning how to create and collaborate around digital media, from websites to tablet apps and far beyond.

Mobile app development: 94% of software developers bet on HTML5 winning

A few months ago, when Facebook admitted defeat and went native with its iOS app, some thought it was a death-knell for HTML5.

PHP developers, you MUST see this: creating a cloud-enabled native mobile app in 10 minutes or less in Zend Studio

Imagine designing and creating a native mobile app for iPhone or Android that connects to web services in about 10 minutes. Oh, and you're creating the web services at exactly the same time

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP

The rumors were true. Five million PHP developers will now be able to design and build mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.

Navigating from services to products: Detroit Labs follows the Google model

Can a services company like an app development house become a product company, and, as Silicon Valley VCs typically demand, command high multiples?