Development

Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus on mobile.

Unity Technologies will soon extend its cross-platform game development tools with an open beta trial targeting the BlackBerry 10 OS. It is inviting developers to register now to be among the first to get access.

'E.T.' is the most reviled game in history, but a group of dedicated fans hacked its ROM, and turned the title around.

Experts say the language should crib app isolation, locality, and automated parallelism from more modern sources.

Administrative tasks, brainstorming, and waiting for tests combine to overtake the hours spent designing and coding.

The Apache Foundation announced Tuesday that the software development and project management framework Bloodhound is now an official top-level project, having graduated from the organization's product incubator.

One of the nation's largest circulating libraries, the King County Library System, turns to agile development outsourcing to take on commercial rivals such as Apple and Amazon.

Ford's new app competition based on an automative API portends a new linked-in world on the road.

Developers learn more about the PS4 internals, controller, and UI.

Twit Cleaner is a popular web app that has been used by hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to clear deadwood from their accounts. Now, however, Twit Cleaner has become one of the latest victims of Twitter's controversial API changes.

When reliability is more important than flexibility it's best to opt for traditional methods.

Yesterday, Google announced its release of a Realtime API for Google Drive. If you’ve ever collaborated on a document using Google Drive, you know how cool this technology is. You can see the other users typing, their cursor position, their highlights, comments, and more.