Yet another mobile dev stack launches, but this one claims it’s the cheapest of ‘em all

It seems these days that not a week rolls by without some new, buzzword-tricked-out development platform launches. But FatFractal promises to be the stack with the lowest price. Period.

Ooomf: saving your mobile app from app store oblivion

How do you promote your app before it's even launched? Or create buzz around just one more app in a sea of 600,000 others?

Why tween girls aren’t playing your games

Just the mention of the word “tween” conjures up images of Bratz-toting, Twilight-reading, Justin Bieber-loving fans. But when you strip away the generalizations, a surprising reality emerges: this demographic controls nearly $50 billion in spending power — and they’re powerful …

HackRocket sends out global casting call to aspiring mobile entrepreneurs

HackRocket is an online iOS bootcamp featuring a cast of mobile development and business experts as instructors. It has officially opened its doors for applications and is ready to put the next generation of aspiring founders through its training program.

85 free e-books on developing for Windows, Azure, Windows Phone, SQL Server, and more

Just a few days ago Eric Ligman, Microsoft’s director of partner experience, posted a massive list of free e-books from Microsoft on programming everything Redmondish.

It’s a potential treasure trove for those who develop for Microsoft, or work in a …

Insta-cloud: CloudMine makes big data super-simple for apps and enterprise

Big data often means big complexity. But CloudMine, the backend-as-a-service infrastructure for apps, just launched this weekend to take the pain out of data management for app developers.

CloudMine started out as a business-to-business big data service, but quickly pivoted …

Codecademy gets new money from Index, Kleiner Perkins, & Richard Freaking Branson

Sir Richard Branson: When he’s not figuring out commercial space travel, he’s making it rain on the kids from Codecademy. Gotta love the guy.

Branson is just one of a whole school of big fish who’ve chipped in on Codecademy’s …

Mozilla hands normal folks the keys to making their own websites, right from the browser

Mozilla has just launched Thimble, a tidy new way to create simple websites from within a browser window.

Thimble is visual enough for coding newbies, but it also lets you play around under the hood with HTML and CSS — …

Instapaper finally hits Android, proves even Apple fanboys have to show Android love

Even though Instapaper developer Marco Arment has repeatedly stated he wouldn’t bring his beloved app to Android, that apparently doesn’t rule out pushing the development work to someone else. Today Instapaper finally makes it way to Android smartphones and tablets …

So much for open source webOS: HP’s core Enyo team goes to Google

The main coders working on HP’s Enyo  — the HTML5 application framework first seen in the HP TouchPad — have jumped ship and are headed to Google, the Verge reports.

This puts a huge dent in HP’s plan to open …

Electronic Arts commits $80 million to next-gen console development

In a call with investment analysts today, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello reported that his company is investing $80 million in what he called “fourth-gen” console development.

He also expressed a strong opinion that console gaming would continue to …

How one dev used 90% of his Windows Phone code to port a game to Windows 8

We’ve been hearing for some time that Microsoft is aiming to make developing apps across Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 dead simple, but it’s another thing entirely to see that in action.

Rick Walrond, developer of the Windows Phone …

Resolution: Learn to code in 2012. Here’s how you can start

If you, like many wanna-be nerds, made a new year’s resolution to learn to code (or code better, or learn a new language) in 2012, Codecademy has a lovely new resource for you. And it’s totally free, too.

Codecademy is …

Microsoft will make a Kinect just for Windows hackers

Microsoft is embracing the DIY future with a special version of the Kinect hardware and firmware made just for Windows.

That means it will soon be even easier for tinkerers to create PC-based programs that turn them into giant blob-men …

How soon will Chinese developers outpace their U.S. counterparts?

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 …