Meebo founder Elaine Wherry created a fake JavaScript engineer named Pete London to attract the best recruiters in Silicon Valley.
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.
Editor's Pick Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.
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Editor's Pick How do you top building the language that's behind a third of the web?
Google has just launched Octane, a new suite of benchmarks for thoroughly modern, high-performing JavaScript.
The new curriculum so far includes courses on programming basics, drawing with JavaScript, animation, and user interaction.
Jens Begemann still believes in Facebook, but the CEO of Wooga is also expanding into mobile social games.
Spaceport.io has been trying for years to create a solid cross-platform mobile game development technology that enables a game to be written once and run on the web, iOS, Android, and Smart TVs. Now it is getting a lot more …
Google announced on Thursday that its “native client” technology is ready, and it will allow game developers to get heavy-duty games to run in web browsers.
This video with one of Google’s technical gurus gives a full explanation of the …
Sibblingz, the maker of a cross-platform game engine, is exploiting Adobe’s retreat from the mobile Flash plug-in business with the launch of the Spaceport 3.0 platform today.
Adobe created a hole in the market when it admitted finally that it …
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 …
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The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture.
The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX machines powered the majority of the web …
Cloud9, a cloud-based app-development startup, closed a $5.5 million first round of funding from Accel Partners and Atlassian Software, the company announced today.
Cloud9 is a web-based programming environment for developers to create and run both web and mobile applications …
Howard Marks has developed pretty good cred in video games. Over the course of 25 years, he helped revive an ailing Activision, which is now the biggest video game publisher. He bought the Acclaim name out of bankruptcy, started working …
Ajax is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
Microsoft, looking for a way to differentiate itself from other Web email services, has allowed a select group of companies to include JavaScript code in email messages that will introduce new functions, potentially opening up a fertile new canvas for …
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