ITworld Development

Developer divide: 19 generations of computer programmers

kgerich — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:51:00 +0000

From punch cards to JavaScript, computing history owes everything to those who've programmed the machines

How to change software testing for new cloud configurations

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:41 +0000

Here are a few things to think about in any cloud transition.

13 quirky tech conferences to check out this year

kgerich — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:12:00 +0000

Get your travel agent on speed dial. These small conferences could be just what the career doctor ordered.

Top 10 programming skills that will get you hired

kgerich — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:26:00 +0000

Where the jobs and the money are.

Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile

IDGNS staff — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:57:20 +0000

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.

12 APIs every programmer should know about

kgerich — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:45:00 +0000

These emerging and under-the-radar APIs add sizzle to your website, from geographical data to financial insights to content analysis

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abennett — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:05:01 +0000

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Windows 8 developers wonder, where's the ad revenue?

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:28:12 +0000

All through the month of April, ad-supported Windows 8 apps have gotten no ads. That means no revenue for developers. What gives?

Xamarin 2.0 review: Mobile development magic

IDGNS staff — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:06:16 +0000

Impressive Xamarin SDK brings native iPhone and Android development to C# programmers, Visual Studio

How to build a drop down menu with CSS and HTML

mombrea — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve written recently about the common task of identifying the active menu item based on the current URL using jQuery and, in that same vein, I want to show how you can create a basic drop down menu using HTML and CSS.

First Firefox OS developer phones are already sold out

IDGNS staff — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:14:20 +0000

The first two developer smartphones running Mozilla's upstart Firefox OS went on sale Tuesday morning and then quickly sold out.

Why developers are turning to API services

IDGNS staff — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:27:23 +0000

As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up.

Unity readies cross platform game development tool for BlackBerry 10 with open beta test

IDGNS staff — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:29:54 +0000

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.

Discourse - A new type of forum

mombrea — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

I don’t know what it is, but people love them some forums. I’ve struggled with this phenomenon for my entire internet life and to this day I regularly debate the need for them on new projects, or the need for them at all for that matter. Recently however, a new forum system has emerged that threatens to change my view on the subject.

Java 8 release delayed until next year

IDGNS staff — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:30:17 +0000

The new version of standard Java was due this September, but the need for more work on security issues and Project Lambda have pushed the release date back to the first quarter of 2014