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FIFA 13 named 2012's most accessible game

Posted January 7, 2013 - 12:06 pm

AbleGamers commends EA for going above and beyond normal accessibility features in naming FIFA 13 the Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year for 2012
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Microsoft C# named programming language of 2012

Posted January 7, 2013 - 8:45 am

Java is still the most widely used programming language in the world, but C#'s popularity grew by 2.3% in 2012 - more than any other programming language during the same period.
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Ruby on Rails security updates address SQL injection flaw

Posted January 3, 2013 - 10:12 am

The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, and 3.0.18 of the software on Wednesday in order to patch a serious SQL injection vulnerability.
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Oracle to stop patching Java 6 in February 2013

Posted December 19, 2012 - 5:36 pm

Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now for its demise, experts said today.
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HTML5 is now feature-complete; here's what comes next

Posted December 19, 2012 - 8:55 am

The World Wide Web Consortium has a roster of proposed enhancements, including better forms, spell checking, and video captioning
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Developers say yes to iOS, but ambivalent about Apple

Posted December 13, 2012 - 5:24 pm

Survey reveals developers' negative opinion of Apple, but huge interest in building for iOS devices; Android also gets top marks.
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VMware makes a play for developers with Pivotal Initiative

Posted December 10, 2012 - 1:08 pm

Pivotal Initiative lumps multiple app dev, big data, and cloud efforts under a single umbrella
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Google I/O 2013 dates set for May 15-17

Posted December 5, 2012 - 5:00 pm

Google I/O, which runs neck-and-neck with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference for hottest tech industry confab these days, will be held next year on May 15-17 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco.
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Previewing Drupal 8

Posted December 5, 2012 - 11:07 am

Work on the next major release of Drupal is well under way and new features have been set
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BBEdit 10.5 adds Retina display support, navigation improvements, and more

Posted December 4, 2012 - 10:14 pm

Bare Bones Software on Tuesday released BBEdit 10.5, a substantial upgrade to its powerful text editor for Mac OS X.
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Choosing the best developer candidates

Posted December 3, 2012 - 11:32 am

When two candidates look equally good on paper, how do you choose between them?
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 out now

Posted November 27, 2012 - 12:04 pm

Fresh off the heels of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update, Microsoft is back at it with yesterday's release of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 package. Visual Studio 2012 itself was only launched in September so it turns out they weren't kidding when they began their initiative to release development tool updates much more frequently.
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Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2012 with better testing tools and Windows XP support

Posted November 27, 2012 - 9:04 am

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work.
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How mobile apps developers can best target geolocation

Posted November 20, 2012 - 12:54 pm

Geoloqi, a scrappy software development startup in Portland, Oregon, claims to be re-inventing the way companies build location-aware applications. Here's the story behind the company and geolocation technology.
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TomTom opens portal for rapid location-based app development

Posted November 15, 2012 - 5:00 pm

Navigation technology provider TomTom announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services (LBS) in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other businesses.
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Agile and Beyond shows value of regional software development conferences

Posted November 15, 2012 - 4:15 pm

Don't overlook the value of small, regional IT events put on by nonprofit organizations: They offer candid conversations, multidisciplinary sessions and networking opportunities and, in this case, the chance to dig in to agile development.
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2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises

Posted November 7, 2012 - 5:38 pm

Mobile application developers and wireless network engineers can expect a 9% and 7.9% increase in starting salaries, respectively, says recruiting and staffing specialist Robert Half Technology.
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Can Windows 8 give developers what iOS and Android lack?

Posted November 7, 2012 - 5:01 pm

Microsoft's future hinges on attracting developers to build Windows 8 apps. But by offering financial incentives, supporting a range of programming languages and allowing developers to write code once for multiple devices, those developers may soon follow.
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ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update: The most useful new features

Posted November 6, 2012 - 9:00 am

A few days ago, Microsoft released a preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 update to Visual Studio 2012. This update adds some really useful new features to MVC and Web API projects (along with some minor updates to Web Forms) that should save .NET developers a lot of time.
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Developers praise Windows Phone 8 SDK, but virtualization and upgrades rankle

Posted November 5, 2012 - 12:25 pm

Tools vendors like greater capabilities SDK brings to smartphone apps, even if new PCs are needed to test code
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Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills

Posted November 2, 2012 - 7:35 pm

Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system's use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft radically redesigned the look and feel of the OS.
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Microsoft doubles down on Windows 8 developers

Posted November 1, 2012 - 4:53 pm

Microsoft is all-in on the biggest gamble in its history.
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Microsoft sponsors a hacking contest - the coding kind

Posted October 31, 2012 - 3:25 pm

In a dimly lit function room on the Microsoft campus 40 teams of coders are spending the week writing modern applications that run on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices, all of them assured of winning a prize.
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Six key messages Microsoft is sending to Windows 8 developers

Posted October 31, 2012 - 3:01 pm

Steve Ballmer looked relaxed on stage. Dressed down in a short sleeve shirt and pants, he smiled, he cracked jokes, and he energetically rallied the 2000-strong crowd of developers at the opening keynote to Microsoft's Build conference on the company's leafy Redmond, Washington campus.
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Microsoft greases the skids for Windows 8 developers

Posted October 30, 2012 - 5:47 pm

How badly does Microsoft need attractive applications for its Windows 8 operating system?
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