Everything you need to know about MySQL 8.0
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The MySQL version 8.0 release candidate was announced in a recent blog post by MySQL highlighting all of the new features that are going to hit the books. First off, you may be asking yourself, “MySQL 8.0? Whatever happened to 6 and 7?” MySQL reports in the post that in order to avoid some confusion with previous alpha releases and MySQL Cluster, the company decided to ...
Android N Developer Preview 2 Includes New Vulkan 3D Rendering API
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Among the top new features of the recently released Android N Developer Preview 2 is Vulkan, a new 3D rendering API which Google helped to create as a member of the Khronos Group. Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile ...
Game Publisher Reveals Secrets to the Localization Process for Shadowgate ReImagined
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Zojoi, a developer of adventure games, and indie games partner Reverb Triple XP have have announced the Linux version of Shadowgate is now available as well as localized versions in French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages.“We had a pretty big demand from players to launch both the Linux version and additional languages for Shadowgate,” said David Marsh, co-founde...
Getting Your App World Ready
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Dawni Jacobs
In a certain sense, "getting your app world-ready" sounds much more descriptive than "internationalizing your app," but they both refer to the same thing. Here is what it's about in a nutshell: Surely someone in your extended family is a passionate gardener. If you ask her what she does before she plants her flowers or vegetables, she'll give you a long (and most l...
PhatWare Releases SDK for Handwriting Recognition Enabled Apps
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
PhatWare has released the latest version of its WritePad Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to develop multiplatform handwriting recognition-enabled applications. It can be utilized with iOS and Android applications in C# using Xamarin Studio on MAC and Windows platforms.The WritePad SDK enables app developers to add handwriting-based text input, which is...
After Years In Development, SDL 2.0.0 Has Finally Been Released!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 by Richard Harris
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.
These are the most importa...
Corona Labs acquires Game Minion
Thursday, December 13, 2012 by Richard Harris
Corona developers will soon have a new option for including cloud based services such as leaderboards, social sharing, and multiplayer gaming into their apps.Corona Labs announced they have joined forces with Game Minion to develop "Corona Cloud" which will hopefully be ready for developers to start using in early 2013.Corona is already a multiplatf...
Google CEO interview
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by Richard Harris
Larry Page is the CEO of Google and rarely talks to the press, so rarely in fact this was only Page's second wide-ranging conversation with a print publication since becoming CEO of Google in April 201. But Fortune magazine was granted a rare opportunity to speak with him one on one about the search engines future, bouts with Apple, and mobile comput...
Apple holiday schedule for developers
Saturday, December 8, 2012 by Richard Harris
The final days for you to get an app in the Apple App Store before the close of 2012 is drawing near. iTunes Connect will shut down December 21–28 for the winter holidays so you would need to get your app ready for review by early next week if you want to make it before the cut off.In addition any pricing changes or other changes to your apps overall pre...
