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.
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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 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.
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 …
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 …
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 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 — …
Sponsored Post Everyone wants to make their site/product/app/widget go viral. Unfortunately, most of the time when people say that, they mean "I want the world to do all my marketing for me." There are some things you can do to tip the scales of fate. Here's a quick primer.
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 …
Sponsored Post In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote that “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Oddly, the same could be said of mobile apps...
If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear it? And if your app joins the 50 bajillion already on the market, will anyone notice? Here are 8 ways to beat the odds and help make your app a hit.
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 …
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 …
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For businesses and other organizations today, open-source software (OSS) is transformative in terms of its ability to allow organizations to write software very quickly and to leverage innovation very aggressively.
OSS component-based development has reached a strategic tipping point, having …
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 …
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 …
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Everyone is talking about the “cloud,” but is there anything new here? How is the “cloud” different from “internet” or “web?”
There is something new — and it’s a big deal — but it’s not what everyone usually talks about.…
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 …
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 …
