The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Learning to code is something every tech-minded person should try at least once — and the wealth of online courses, many of which are free or surprisingly inexpensive, make learning about programming easier than [...]

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. You don’t have to get hit by the proverbial bus to know it hurts, and you don’t have to make the same mistakes other devs have made on your way to a functional, widely [...]

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.In our ongoing series on APIs, we’ve covered whether to offer an API and how to get people using it… Tweet This Post

We still don’t have a solid release date for HP’s tiny Veer — we’ve been told it’s “coming around the corner” and will be here “soon” — but if we were the guessing type, we’d say that the pint-sized webOS 2… Tweet This Post

This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a world leader in managed DNS, powering the best brands on the web including Gowalla, Mashable, Twitter, Wikia and more. Follow @DynInc on Twitter.APIs are a hot topic among developers these days… Tweet This Post

We know how Mozilla must feel. It spends every waking hour tweaking and perfecting Firefox to eek out as much performance as possible, only to see it all ruined by lousy add-ons that weigh the browser down like a block of cement… Tweet This Post

The team behind Trendrr is open-sourcing a homebrewed suite of tools for Python development.These tools, collectively called Whirlwind, build off Facebook’s Tornado — the name is an obvious reference to that fact — and rely on Mako templates and MongoDB, one of the more popular NoSQL database technologies… Tweet This Post

Code for America seeking devs for its 2012 Fellowship Program, a year of public service that puts coders to work for communities.The fellowship gives developers, researchers, entrepreneurs and designers a chance to build customized web and mobile apps for communities and governments… Tweet This Post

Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver.In an API announcement post, Sarver finally made clear what third-party developers have known for months: The company does not want developers to make Twitter clients any longer… Tweet This [...]

Now here’s a tool we’d like to see applied to more languages. A handful of developers have just launched a site devoted to explaining the more intricate, difficult and quirky aspects of JavaScript… Tweet This Post

Recently, API products company Apigee rolled out Apigee To-Go, a free tool for building an API console, classing it up with a slick UI, and embedding it wherever your developers are.This new tool gives developers a DIY approach to offering brand-cohesive, usable API interfaces… Tweet This Post

Monday night, Adobe released a new, experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby.Wallaby is an AIR app that lets devs and designers quickly and simply convert Flash Professional files to HTML5 — and when we say “simply and easily,” we mean it’s a matter of dragging and dropping… Tweet This Post