6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition

Jan 30, 2012 No Comments

Paul Baldwin is the chief marketing officer of Outfit7 Inc., a subsidiary of Out Fit 7 Ltd, the leading entertainment app developer. Paul has more than 17 years of experience developing, marketing and monetizing digital entertainment content… Tweet This Post

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Want to teach someone to code? Codecademy’s got an app for that

Jan 30, 2012 No Comments

Codecademy, the white-hot startup that teaches even total novices how to code, has launched a new tool: Creators, which lets anyone create a course on Codecademy and teach technology to an audience of over a million budding developers… Tweet This Post

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Pass the popcorn: Y Combinator startup caught stealing from 37signals

Jan 28, 2012 No Comments

Here’s some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals… Tweet This Post

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How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam

Jan 28, 2012 No Comments

Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js. Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you were a teen or an educator, yourself… Tweet This Post

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Why we need to put the “run” back into Java

Jan 27, 2012 No Comments

Let’s say you’re an NFL running back. When the quarterback hands you the ball, what do you do? You run. You run hard, and you run fast. If you hesitate for just a second, you immediately get demolished by a bunch of defenders… Tweet This Post

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SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users

Jan 26, 2012 No Comments

Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new application called [...]

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HP: Open webOS 1.0 arriving in September, Enyo 2.0 framework free to developers today

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments

When HP announced last month that it would open-source webOS, the outfit seemed mighty pleased (and relieved) to have finally made a definitive decision regarding the fate of its $1.2 billion software experiment… Tweet This Post

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What developers will be doing, learning & listening to in 2012 (survey results)

Jan 11, 2012 No Comments

According to data from a new report, developers are planning to invest their time, talent and energy in a few notable avenues over the coming year — and a handful of programming languages, as well… Tweet This Post

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Windows Phone Marketplace now accepting app submissions for China, five other countries

Jan 08, 2012 No Comments

It wasn’t long ago that the Windows Phone Marketplace hit 50,000 unique titles, and very soon, developers may find themselves with a whole lot more exposure. Microsoft’s virtual store is expanding once again — this time to Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru and the Philippines… Tweet This Post

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Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js

Jan 07, 2012 No Comments

Node.js has been getting great press for being used to build real-time web applications and fast networking tools that help big web sites run and scale. But is Node just as good a fit for web agencies and developers that build dozens, scores, or even hundreds of sites a year? Making the switch away from [...]

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Facebook Developers Explain the Making of Timeline [VIDEO]

Jan 06, 2012 No Comments

In a post on Facebook, developers explain what it took to make Timeline a reality. They explain ins and outs of the six month-long process, how they worked and changes made. Check out the video above for a walk-through of the process… Tweet This Post

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Google: Android 4.0 ‘Holo’ theme to be mandatory on all devices with Android Market

Jan 03, 2012 No Comments

Google is rightfully proud of its native theme in Ice Cream Sandwich. Dubbed Holo, it’s intuitive, functional and — dare we say it — downright sexy. Now, in an effort to provide all users with a consistent interface, the company is making the theme essential for all Android 4… Tweet This Post

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