How AI is causing app litter everywhere
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 by Trey Abbe
I've worked on systems that have been running for years, the kind you don't think about because they just work. No noise, no constant updates, no surprises. They were built carefully, and that care shows over time. You can tell when something was designed with longevity in mind because it doesn't demand your attention. It just does its job.
That's a c...
Developer Hub announced by Fastly
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Fastly, Inc announced the launch of its new Developer Hub, a central place for developers to easily access all the tools they need to build fast, scalable and secure modern applications on the Fastly edge cloud platform. Housed within the Developer Hub is a testing sandbox, ready-to-deploy code snippets, and a growing repository of structured tutorials, reference materi...
Microsoft Band SDK Preview Released for iOS
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft Band SDK Preview now is available for iOS, adding to the Windows and Android SDK. The Microsoft Band SDK provides the downloadable SDKs which includes sample code and access to additional resources including release notes, guidelines on experience design, and documentation.The SDK Preview gives developers access to the sensors available on the band, as well as...
New Launch Of Google Go 1.4
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google Go 1.4 just launched and it offers exclusive Android support. The latest version had just been released after the previous version 1.3 was unveiled six months ago. Go 1.4 delivers compatibility and gives its users the ability to run without change and compile.The Go programming language includes a host of features. Google Go 1.4 has new improvements in areas...
Intel's Latest XDK HTML5 Mobile Development Platform Release Focuses on Cordova Plugins and Mobile Monetization
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has launched the latest release of its mobile development XDK, which provides a HTML5 and Javascript platform for mobile development. In this release, the company has focused on Cordova plugins and mobile monetization.The Intel XDK now offers full support of Cordova APIs and plugins on iOS, Android, and Windows 8. Developers can take advantage of the number of plu...
Facebook Release Graph API v2.1 and Offers New iOS and Android SDKs
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
At f8 2014, Facebook announced a new version of their Graph API v2.0. The company also announced that moving forward, the primary way they would release changes to their platform would be through new API versions. Their rationale is that versioning provides a 2-year stability guarantee for Core APIs and gives developers control over when they upgrad...
Corona Releases Composer GUI in Latest Version of Mobile SDK
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Corona Labs has announced the new public release of the Corona SDK. There are a number of new features and fixes in this public release. One of the biggest is that Composer GUI (in beta) is now available to all users of Corona SDK, including the starter and basic version. Also, this build addresses Google Play’s coming deadline conceringn using their advertising ID...
Apple Opens New Swift Blog, Announces Xcode 6 Beta 3 for iOS Development
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
As Apple moves forward with the refinement of the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C, it has launched a new Swift specific blog. In Apples words, “This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the l...
LG Launches New webOS TV SDK Developer Site
Monday, July 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
LG has launched a new webOS TV Developer Site to provide a one-stop resource center for all developer requirements for webOS TV applications. Developers can learn how to plan, design, develop and publish webOS application for the LG Smart+ TV.About the New WebsiteDevelopers can download and install the webOS TV SDK and set up the development environment. The S...
Marmalade Announces Free SDK License with the Launch of Version 7.3
Monday, June 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Marmalade Technologies is now offering a free license for their cross-platform SDK. Marmalade’s free SDK license enables developers to create apps and games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Store, BlackBerry and Tizen using a single codebase for native performance on any device. With the free license developers have access to Marmalade Quick, Marmalade Web ...
Sencha Launches GXT 3.1 Beta to Create Web Apps Using Java
Friday, February 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Sencha has announced the release of GXT 3.1 beta for creating web apps using Java. Sencha GXT uses the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) compiler that allows developers to write apps in Java and compile their code into highly optimized cross-browser HTML5 and JavaScript. Sencha GXT provides widgets, templates and layouts, advanced charting, dat...
Rust 0.8 Released
Friday, September 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Mozilla and the Rust community are pleased to announce version 0.8 of
the Rust compiler and tools.
This was another very active re...
iOS 7 Beta 6 Download Now Available From Apple Dev Center
Thursday, August 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
iOS 7 beta 6 has been released and is ready for downloading. At only 13 megs it's not a huge update, but Apple has let everyone be privy as to what has been changed for this release by with a complete change log, repeated below.
Notes and Known Issues
The following issues relate to using iOS SDK 7.0 to develop code.
Address Book
Notes
The classes in the Ad...
iOS 6.1 Beta 3 out for developers
Monday, December 3, 2012 by Richard Harris
Attention apple developers, Apple is never going to let you relax! The are getting closer to the full version of the new iOS 6.1 operating system with today's announcement that 6.1 Beta 3 is available for registered developers to download.The iDevices that are compatible with iOS 6.1 beta 3 include the iPad 4, iPad mini, iPad 3, iPad 2, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone ...
