CSS3 to CSS5 web styling evolution
Monday, November 11, 2024 by Austin Harris
The world of web design and development has been abuzz with conversations about the future of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as discussions around the emergence of CSS5 begin to take shape. This renewed focus comes amid curiosity about what followed CSS3, a version that significantly transformed web design back in 2009. While CSS4 never officially materialized, the web c...
WaveMaker Autocode aims to end development team grunt work
Wednesday, December 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
WaveMaker has been named Major Contender by the global research firm Everest, in its Low-code Application Development Platforms PEAK Matrix Assessment 2023. This validates the strategic investment by WaveMaker in upgrading its technology platform to meet the needs of customers who want to leverage the latest web and mobile technologies along with AI to rapidly mode...
Web3 adoption driven by Cronos Labs and Protocol Labs
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Cronos Labs announced a partnership with Protocol Labs, the open-source research and development laboratory that builds protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. As part of the collaboration, Protocol Labs will provide startups within Cronos’ Accelerator Program with the resources needed to develop innovative Web3 applications within t...
Develop on the Mainframe like any other cloud platform with Zowe
Monday, February 11, 2019 by Richard Harris
The Open Mainframe Project announced that Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, is now production ready less than six months after launching. Any enterprise or solution developer can access the Zowe 1.0 source code or convenience build and incorporate it into their products or services...
Twitter and KaiOS take on KaiOSpowered smart feature phones
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Joyce Shen
Imagine you’re a seasoned designer for smartphones working with ever-expanding resources, including memory, CPU speed, and screen resolution. Then, one day, your manager gives you an assignment to work on a device that has less of all this and doesn’t even have a touchscreen!
This is what happened to some of the designers at Twitter and KaiOS, all of whom...
Angular 7 highlights, improvements, and gotchas
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Produ...
KaiOS talks smart feature phones and app developers
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
KaiOS is a Linux-based mobile operating system built on a fork of Firefox OS that first appeared in 2017 and was developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. in San Diego. We recently chatted with Tim Metz, Marketing Director at KaiOS Technologies, about KaiOS' emerging operating system for smart feature phones. We discuss why these devices are becoming relevant again, what...
What if we never had to look at code to make an app
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
I find it humorous and a little dissatisfying that programming is sometimes defined as; “the action or process of writing computer programs ”, as if we are just sitting down to write a short story!So here is my definition of programming. Programming is a complex set of engineered problem-solving ideas from the widespread neural network of the brain, that gets translated...
New reference guide for DevOps teams is out
Thursday, March 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
Perfecto has announced the release of the ninth edition of its FACTORS reference guide, which has expanded its focus from mobile to include both mobile and web platforms. Combining Perfecto’s internal data with current market analysis from 16 countries, FACTORS provides decision makers with a prescriptive methodology to accelerate velocity by defining what's required fo...
The shifting power dynamics of news on the Web
Monday, December 11, 2017 by Andrew Betts
Over the last several years, control of news on the web has drastically shifted. Social networks and search are increasingly how we find content, and our old loyalties to our favorite publications are giving way to consumption of content from varied and ever changing sources. Large, respectable publishers are still vital to a healthy news industry and indeed a healthy d...
W3C Publishing Summit event docket announced
Friday, August 18, 2017 by Austin Harris
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the program of its inaugural W3C Publishing Summit to be held 9-10 November 2017 in the San Francisco Bay area, California, featuring keynotes from Internet pioneer and futurist Tim O’Reilly and Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis.Publishing and the Web interact in innumerable ways. From schools to libraries, from design to production ...
More data will be created in 2017 than the previous 5,000 years of humanity
Friday, December 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Predictions sent in from Sencha's CEO Art Landro
In 2015, Art predicted that in 2016 the explosion of data would drastically transform the technology landscape, requiring organizations to visualize all incoming data from IoT devices for rapid decision making and insight into competitiveness and viability. He believes data will remain a key...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
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...
A Look Into the New Sencha Application Testing Platform
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Subu Baskaran, a Senior Product Manager at Sencha, about the company’s new Sencha Test solution for Ext JS apps, which was made generally available in February. The platform is based on open source test frameworks, including Jasmine and Istanbul, with Sencha built components.ADM: What are some of the main challenges for developers today, when bu...
Ionic Launches New Version of its HTML5 App Creator
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
It’s been a little over a year since Ionic launched the alpha of its open source Ionic Creator platform which provides an HTML5 SDK to build cross platform, native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The company has recently released a number of updates to the platform adding new features, polishing existing ones, and fixing issues...
Connect.js Conference Will Dive Deep Into Web Technologies in October
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Web developers will again flock to Atlanta for the Connect.js Conference as they dive deep into AngularJS, React.JS, Testing JavaScript, Advanced JavaScript, Enterprise JavaScript, Cross-platform Mobile Development with Phonegap & Ionic, Server-side JavaScript, Design/UI/UX, Rails, and PHP.This low cost conference will be held Friday October 16 and Saturday October ...
HTML5Devconf in San Francisco Dives Into Web Technologies in October
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
HTML5Devconf will be once again be in San Francisco with this year’s conference held on October 19 – 20 and training sessions held on October 21 – 23.The event is one of the largest gatherings of technical software developers, designers and decision makers focused on Internet software technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js and other cross platform web, mob...
What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...
A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Marcin Warpechowski
Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...
Telerik Launches JavaScript Open Source Network for Web Developers to Build Native Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open source framework enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on all major mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and upcoming for Windows Universal. The NativeScript framework is designed to be familiar to developers who are comfortable with web technologie...
Adobe Updates Mobile Development Framework
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Adobe has announced enhancements to its Adobe Mobile Services that now includes an integrated mobile app framework. Mobile Services is offered through the Adobe Marketing Cloud as a product to encompass the mobile app lifecycle from app development and user acquisition to app analytics and user engagement. The mobile app framework in Adobe Mobile Services brings to...
New Pebble SDK 3.0 Coincides With the Success of the $15 Million Pebble Steel Kickstarter Campaign
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With the news that Pebble’s Time Kickstarter campaign has reached over $15 million in revenue, developers may want to start noodling with the new Pebble SDK 3.0 launched last week. Pebble is way north of 400,000 units sold and the number should shoot up when the Pebble Time starts shipping in May and the Time Steel starts shipping in July.So about the new SDK:- Apps bui...
Progress Releases Updates to Telerik App Development Platform
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released the latest version of Telerik, its device and OS agnostic mobile development platform that combine UI tools and cloud services to build apps. This comes on the heels of the Progress’s announcement that it had finalized the purchase of Telerik AD in December 2014.The Telerik Platform offers tools and services that can be adopted individually or as a...
GrapeCity Updated Wijmo 5 Expands Line of HTML5 and JavaScript Products
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GrapeCity Developer Tools has released its latest version of Wijmo 5 expanding GrapeCity's line of HTML5 and JavaScript products for enterprise app development. The Wijmo family offers JavaScript Controls (Wijmo 5), classic jQuery Widgets (Wijmo 3) and a spreadsheet component (SpreadJS)."Touch First, Mobile First, was our mantra when setting out to create a set of true ...
New RhoMobile Suite V5.0 Offers Enterprise App Development Using CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and Ruby
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Motorola Solutions has released RhoMobile Suite 5.0, the latest version of its set of mobile app development tools for creating OS and device-agnostic enterprise-class mobile apps, with a new pricing option featuring per-developer subscription pricing. In an effort to align application developer needs with budget pricing, the new price structure allows develop...
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 Throws it Weight Behind Tizen HTML5 Platform
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Marmalade has announced that it has joined the Tizen Association Partner Program to help drive the development and deployment of the Tizen Operating System (OS) platform. The Tizen Association has been formed to guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and overall industry ma...
Aternity Launches New Mobile Application Performance Management (APM) Platform for Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aternity has released mAPM for Enterprise Apps, a new set of mobile application performance management products that provide enterprises with the capabilities that their app development, IT Ops, and line of business teams need to measure, manage, and improve workforce productivity.The mAPM capabilities allow enterprises to ensure a quality user experience for their...
LG’s Connect SDK Provides Open Source Framework to Develop Apps Across Multiple TV Platforms
Monday, April 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
LG’s Connect SDK is an open source framework that connects mobile apps with multiple TV platforms. Because most TV platforms support a variety of protocols, Connect SDK integrates and abstracts the discovery and connectivity between all supported protocols.To discover supported platforms and protocols, Connect SDK uses SSDP to discover services such as DIAL, D...
GitHub's New Text Editor Atom Leaked But Not Official Yet
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Looking for a text editor built on top of web technologies? It appears GitHub's text editor "Atom" has been leaked out and you can give it a trial run now. Here are a few things we've picked up about the new editor (which resembles Sublime).It looks to use CSS / LESS for
highlighting, and CoffeeScript for client-side programming , or the autocompletion.It doesn't see...
Mozilla Announces New Dual Core App Developer Reference Phone, Firefox OS PhoneGap Integration
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s going to be a week of announcement overload as companies try to maximize their access to media at the Mobile World Congress so hold on as a cornucopia of mobile news is served.Mozilla joins the fray with a number of announcements, including a 4.5-inch dual-core reference phone, enabling developers to test new Firefox OS features and apps against different memo...
Panasonic to Adopt Mozilla Firefox OS Open Platform for Next Generation Smart TVs
Sunday, January 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mozilla has scored another win in its efforts to expand its Firefox Os with the announcement that it is joining with Panasonic to bring Firefox to the next generation of smart TVs. Here is what Panasonic and Mozilla has to say about the partnership:The development of the new Firefox OS platform aims to deliver more expansive access into smart TVs by...
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...
Intel Announces XDK NEW HTML5 Cross platform Toolkit at HTML5DevCon
Saturday, October 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel continues its push towards HTML5 development with the announcement of its new XDK NEW HTML5 Cross-platform Toolkit. The news was made at the HTML5DevCon event where Intel vice president Christos Georgiopoulos made the announcement.
The new toolkit for web and hybrid apps will help allow developers to create HTML5 apps and shorten time from idea to app store. Enha...
