Google Maps API updates include styling boundaries
Friday, July 1, 2022 by Richard Harris
Displaying data through maps enables you to communicate key information to your users in a more visually engaging and intuitive way. One way to do this is by utilizing polygons to highlight regions and data. Many of you have told us that purchasing, updating, and maintaining your own boundary data to style polygons and create choropleth maps is expensive and takes a lot...
Esri Developer Summit 2019 recap
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
At the 2019 Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, presentations and workshops focused on new capabilities for speed, science, and flexibility. Esri president Jack Dangermond opened the conference by recognizing the more than 2,100 developers in attendance for their tireless efforts to build location intelligence apps that make a difference in our world. Whether the...
Garden Guru Bluetooth sensor helps you grow homegrown food
Friday, January 11, 2019 by Austin Harris
Vermont-based AgTech startup Seedsheet has unveiled its newest product, the Garden Guru Sensor, a Bluetooth-enabled sensor that provides users with precise, real-time data to facilitate maximum plant growth and ensure everyone’s gardening experience reaps the benefits of homegrown food.
Seedsheet’s new BTE sensor ensures thriving, full-sized gardens...
Skuid joins MuleSoft to help enterprises create better apps
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 by Austin Harris
Skuid, a no-code cloud application platform, announced it has joined the MuleSoft Technology Partner Program so enterprises can create even better business applications. With Skuid and MuleSoft, customers can deliver highly usable business applications that unlock customer’s data across the enterprise and enhance user experiences to drive business productivity all...
JavaScript API edition of Dynamsoft's barcode SDK released
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Dynamsoft has updated its Barcode Reader Software Development Kit as a pure JavaScript API Edition, based on WebAssembly, to enable cross-browser and cross-platform online barcode scanning.
These new features will empower developers with new conveniences for users. Users can scan barcodes in real-time from a browser using their smartphone without requiring an a...
Flex contact platform announced by Twilio
Monday, March 19, 2018 by Austin Harris
Twilio announced Flex, a contact center platform that gives businesses complete control of their contact center experience. With Twilio Flex, companies can instantly deploy an omnichannel contact center platform and also programmatically customize every element of the experience including the interface, communication channels, agent routing, and reporting to meet the un...
New progressive web app framework introduced by Marfeel
Thursday, January 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Marfeel has announced the launch of its Marfeel PWA technology, which enables publishers to benefit fully from the next big thing in the mobile ecosystem. As an early adopter of progressive web app technology, Marfeel offers such forward-looking capabilities as 0.7-second page loads for first meaningful paint, push notifications, offline access to content, and striking ...
Research suggests a diverse need for video communications PaaS
Friday, December 1, 2017 by Austin Harris
Vidyo in collaboration with WebRTC ventures has released a report titled “The Rise of Embedded Video Communications: Trends in Video-Enabled Apps.” The report shows that communications platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) is a top choice for those who are planning embedded video projects, with 49% of respondents saying that they plan to use a communications PaaS to initiate an...
AutoMobility LA hosts 2017 Hackathon to tackle LA congestion
Thursday, October 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
The LA Auto Show and AutoMobility LA has announced plans for its 2017 Hackathon, sponsored by Honda Innovations. The Hackathon, which will be hosted by AutoMobility LA for the first time, will take place over a period of 24 hours, November 27-28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.For this year’s Hackathon, developers will be asked to tackle the transportation and mobi...
Developers adding 3D printing capability to products
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Austin Harris
Tech Soft 3D has announced that many of their partners looking to add 3D printing capability to existing products or develop new innovative ones are using HOOPS software development toolkits and Polygonica in lieu of developing the technology in-house.“As 3D printing transitions from prototyping to commercial-grade production, it’s increasingly clear that robust softwar...
WebRTC live video JavaScript API now avaliable
Friday, September 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
TokBox has announced that the version of its OpenTok Platform for WebRTC that supports Safari 11 browser will roll out of beta and be available to all developers upon iOS general availability later this month. “This is a major turning point for live video,” noted TokBox CEO Scott Lomond. “Now that we are able to support embedded communications in all of the major browse...
Five Bitbucket AddOns to Make Your Life Easier
Thursday, September 29, 2016 by Tim Pettersen
Atlassian's Git and Mercurial hosting service, Bitbucket, has an app integration framework to go along with it's traditional REST APIs and webhooks. Bitbucket Connect allows developers to embed new pages and features directly within its user interface via securely signed iframes, and interact with Bitbucket using both REST and a client-side JavaScript API. It's kind of ...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
AT&T Developer Summit Hosts Biggest Hackathon Yet with Over $250,000 Up for Grabs
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The developer world is set to experience one of the biggest hackathons of the year on January 2–3, 2016. Developers will flock to Las Vegas during that time for a chance to win over US$250,000 in cash and prizes at the AT&T Developer Summit hackathon.It’s the biggest hackathon prize pool of the year, bar none. And participating is free! I like the word “plethora” to...
Order Your Apple TV Developer Kit Now Before They Are Gone
Thursday, September 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple developers interested in getting one of the new Apple TV Developer Kits need to act fast as there is a limited supply of the kits available. The kit includes the new Apple TV, Apple TV Remote, Power cord, Lightning to USB Cable, USB-A to USB-C Cable, and documentation.The new Apple TV has built from the ground up with a new generation of hardware and interface usi...
In Advance of CES, AT&T Announces Drive and AT&T Drive Studio Connected Car Initiatives at Its Developer Conference and Hackathon
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
AT&T’s Developer Conference and Hackathon had a decidedly connected slant which explains the company’s announcements on Monday as it moves forward with its AT&T Drive and AT&T Drive Studio connected car initiatives. These two programs are evolving to facilitate the ability for developers to work with automotive manufacturers to integrate apps.Highlights of t...
Lifestreams Technologies Beta Testing New SaaS Private Label Timeline Service for Web and Mobile Apps
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A new SaaS private-label timeline service has been launched in beta by Lifestreams Technologies. The company has announced the Timeline SDK for web developers and content providers to integrate cloud-based timelines (activity streams) into web and mobile app experiences.The SDK helps developers integrate Lifestreams’ timeline cloud service and includes RESTful, JavaScri...
The Future of PhoneGap
Saturday, December 28, 2013 by Marko Lehtimaki
Adobe, the
current owner of the popular HTML5 hybrid app framework PhoneGap, has
traditionally focused on the creation of multimedia and creativity software
products. In more recent years, Adobe has been betting heavily on HTML5. It
remains that creative professionals are Adobe’s bread and butter, and this
focus sometimes requires product decisions which might not ...
Mozilla and Goo Promote US$45K Game Creator Challenge to HTML5 App Developers
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Mozilla and Goo are looking for all developers, from experienced game creators and JavaScript coders to those with just a little coding knowledge, to enter the Game Creator Challenge and a chance to win a part of US$45K. The contest is running now through January 14.
To create games, contestants will use the Goo platform consisting of Goo Engine – a 3D J...
HTML5 App Development: Insight into Choices for Mobile Developers to Bring Web Apps to Market
Monday, November 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
How HTML5 mobile app developers decide between four fundamental choices to bring web apps to market is the basis of a recent report by Vision Mobile.
The report is taken from data derived from four different sources: raw data from Vision Mobile’s Q2 Developer Economics survey (6,000 respondents, April-May 2013); analytics from 30,000 plus Android apps available in Goog...
Chrome 29 Beta Brings Web Audio and WebRTC in Chrome for Android
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
In Chrome 29 Beta Google has released several new Chrome Apps APIs and new features on Chrome for Android. Significant updates include Android support for the Web Audio API for processing and synthesizing audio and WebRTC, the real-time communication API.
The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio to allow web developers...
