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Blizzard’s Unannounced ‘Titan’ MMO Rebooted, Development Team Reduced

Posted by Gsurface on May 29, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “VentureBeat reports that the next-gen MMO Blizzard Entertainment has been hinting at since 2007, codenamed ‘Titan,’ is getting restarted with a drastically reduced development team. It was originally being built by a 100-person ‘dream team’ of developers that had their roots in other popular Blizzard games. Many people were expecting an announcement about Titan at this year’s Blizzcon, but now that looks unlikely. ‘Blizzard’s development teams aren’t known for their speed. The publisher often cancels projects that have been in the works for years if it believes that those games don’t meet its standard of quality.’ VentureBeat’s sources say the game is now looking at a 2016 release at the earliest.”

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New ‘Arrested Development’ Pulls Off The Geekiest Gag Ever, Confuses Much Of The Internet

Posted by Gsurface on May 27, 2013 No comments

New Arrested Development is here! Have you heard? I could probably fall back on an “Unless you’ve been living under a rock..” joke here, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got WiFi under rocks now.

Anyway — if you’re just catching the first few episodes of the new season: Yeah, you saw what you think you saw. Yeah, it’s a gag. No, you’re not the only one that it confused.

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Arrested Development season four is ready for viewing on Netflix

Posted by Gsurface on May 26, 2013 No comments

Arrested Development is finally back. After Fox cancelled the show in 2006 its popularity has unexpectedly grown, and now a new season commissioned by Netflix for its streaming service is ready for viewing. As is its custom, the service is making all of the episodes available for viewing at once, so fans (in all areas where Netflix is available) can start the Bluth Party binge immediately just by clicking the link below.

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Weekend Watching: Arrested Development returns Sunday

Posted by Gsurface on May 26, 2013 No comments

It’s back, ladies and gents. Season 4 of Arrested Development will be releasing on Sunday, May 26 only on Netflix. Be sure to cancel all of your Sunday plans and get all your chores done on Saturday, because Sunday will be a busy day. Each episode of the new show will run around 30 minutes

Previously, on ‘Arrested Development’: NPR’s epic guide to the show’s running gags

Posted by Gsurface on May 19, 2013 No comments

The Bluths are back, and your friends in public radio have obsessively compiled all their recurring jokes. [Read more]

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Netflix’s Arrested Development season four trailer hits the Web

Posted by Gsurface on May 13, 2013 No comments

Over the last several years, it’s been very common for television networks to cancel shows even though the shows are popular with critics and have loyal fans. TV shows that are unable to appeal to the mass market simply won’t last long. One television show that had received critical acclaim and had a very loyal

The Philosophy Of Game Development By The Numbers

Posted by Gsurface on May 5, 2013 No comments

Editor’s note: Hassan Baig is an entrepreneur who runs White Rabbit Studios, a South Asian gaming startup he founded four years ago in Pakistan.

There are several metrics that game developers keep an eye on when tracking the performance of their games. Notions of creativity, novelty and fun are all confined within the prism of an analytics-centric approach: They have wiggle room as long as they improve analytics.
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First Google Glass YouTube app appears: Wild West development continues

Posted by Gsurface on May 4, 2013 No comments

As we see Google Glass’ first YouTube app join the first Reddit app, first blink-to-photograph app, and an ever-growing ecosystem software expand, it’s become clear: this device is currently embroiled in a Wild West atmosphere. What this means for developers is that if the opportunity is open, an basic app for every purpose can and

Audience Development Startup LinkSmart Raises $5 Million From Foundry And Costanoa

Posted by Gsurface on May 4, 2013 No comments

A little less than a year ago, a little company called LinkSmart launched to help publishers use text links to get their readers reading more. Now it has raised $ 5 million in Series B funding to take its technology for growing audiences and make it more widely available. The financing was led by Foundry Group and Costanoa Venture Partners.
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Coursera To Offer K-12 Teacher Development Courses

Posted by Gsurface on May 1, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “Coursera on Wednesday announced it has partnered with 12 top professional development programs and schools of education to open up training and development courses to teachers worldwide. The massive open online course (MOOC) provider is expanding beyond university courses by offering 28 teaching courses for free, with more to come. It’s worth noting that this is the first time Coursera is partnering with non-degree-bearing institutions. It’s also Coursera’s first foray into early childhood and K-12-level education. The company clearly sees this as a necessary step if it wants to go beyond just students and address the other side of the expensive education equation.”

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Ask Slashdot: Best OSS Embedded Development Platform

Posted by Gsurface on April 29, 2013 No comments

AchilleTalon writes “As many of you may know, there are two main competitors on the Windows platform for embedded software development, namely IAR and Keil. By embedded development, I mean development for microprocessors like the well known 8051 and the likes, not mobile platforms which include a complete OS in first place. I am seeking for alternatives to IAR and Keil in the OSS world. Even if I can find pieces of code here and there, I haven’t found yet a fully integrated development platform. Does it exist? What do you use?”

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In Development: An Open Source Language For Cell Programming

Posted by Gsurface on April 22, 2013 No comments

hessian writes with a story at Wired (excerpt below) about a project from Drew Endy of the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology, or BIOFAB, to standardize a programming language connecting genetic information from DNA to the cell components that DNA can create. “The BIOFAB project is still in the early stages. Endy and the team are creating the most basic of building blocks — the ‘grammar’ for the language. Their latest achievement, recently reported in the journal Science, has been to create a way of controlling and amplifying the signals sent from the genome to the cell. Endy compares this process to an old fashioned telegraph. ‘If you want to send a telegraph from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the signals would get degraded along the wire,’ he says. “At some point, you have to have a relay system that would detect the signals before they completely went to noise and then amplify them back up to keep sending them along their way.”"

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DOE to Push Development of Huge Potential Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted by Gsurface on April 19, 2013 No comments

The Department of Energy and the Alaskan Government are speeding up development of oil sands and methane hydrates.

Many environmentalists are protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline because it would help facilitate the delivery of oil from Canada’s oil sands and, they argue, increase carbon dioxide emissions. They may have more reason to worry about what’s happening in Alaska. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy to speed up production of natural gas from a resource—methane hydrate deposits–that’s far larger than the oil sands in Canada, and could in theory lead to far greater greenhouse gas emissions.

Girl Scouts to award badge for video game development

Posted by Gsurface on April 18, 2013 No comments

The youth organization is getting with the times by creating a new skill badge for girls who build their own video games. [Read more]

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Action.IO Becomes Nitrous.IO, Raises $1M For Its Development Tools

Posted by Gsurface on April 16, 2013 No comments

Action.IO, a startup promising to make it easier to create, configure, and share development environments, just announced a new name — Nitrous.IO — and $ 1 million in seed funding.

The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Draper Associates, CrunchFund, 500 Startups, TIBCO Software, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Golden Gate Ventures, and Peanut Labs co-founder/CTO Prosper Nwankpa. (TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is a partner at CrunchFund.)
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Backed By Greylock’s Reid Hoffman, Recurious Launches As A Game Development Platform For Curious Kids

Posted by Gsurface on April 16, 2013 No comments

Recurious, a new game development platform that aims to help kids rediscover their curiosity, is announcing $ 1.5 million in funding led by Greylock Partners (Reid Hoffman).
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IBM to invest $1B in flash memory development

Posted by Gsurface on April 11, 2013 No comments

After its buyout of Texas Memory Systems, IBM is now the latest on the vendor bandwagon to push flash into the data centers, saying it will invest a whopping $ 1 billion into flash research.
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190M-year-old dinosaur bones found in China shed light on growth, development

Posted by Gsurface on April 11, 2013 No comments

A cache of fossilized dinosaur embryos unearthed in China is giving scientists their best glimpse yet into the development of these ancient creatures.
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Salesforce.com launches new services for mobile app development

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2013 No comments

Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform.
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WebKit fracture limits open-source browser development

Posted by Gsurface on April 5, 2013 No comments

With Google concentrating on its own Blink, Apple is tightening the WebKit browser engine code base. That puts limits on other projects seeking to customize the browser. [Read more]

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Disney zaps in-house game development at LucasArts

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2013 No comments

Walt Disney has shut down in-house development at LucasArts, the gaming arm of Lucasfilm, less than a year after buying its parent company.
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Disney halts game development at LucasArts, moves to licensed Star Wars titles

Posted by Gsurface on April 3, 2013 No comments

If you’re old enough to have played PC games for more than a decade, LucasArts (originally LucasFilm Games) likely has a permanent place in your heart after a string of legendary adventure and flight combat releases. You’ll unfortunately have to put the company as you knew it squarely in the past — Lucasfilm’s new owner, Disney, is ending internal development at LucasArts. The software house is shifting to a licensing model for Star Wars games, reportedly “minimizing the company’s risk” while expanding the range of games on offer. There’s a chance that in-progress titles like Star Wars 1313 will survive with outside help, according to a spokesperson in touch with GameInformer, but talk of layoffs from Kotaku dampens any chances for direct follow-ups to favorites like Grim Fandango. We won’t mourn too much when personas like Ron Gilbert, Lawrence Holland and Tim Schafer have long since moved on to other companies — still, it’s unquestionably the end of an era for game and movie fans alike.

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Via: Joystiq

Source: GameInformer (1), (2)

Oculus Rift development kits now shipping

Posted by Gsurface on April 1, 2013 No comments

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is becoming more of an actual reality now. The company announced today that developer kits of the Oculus Rift are now shipping out to developers. In fact, the company says that units actually started shipping out Wednesday, so some developers may have already gotten theirs. It feels like yesterday

US Navy to fund development of vehicle-mounted, drone-shooting lasers

Posted by Gsurface on March 29, 2013 No comments

Lasers, particularly those that set boats ablaze and incinerate incoming missiles, have long been on the Navy’s mind. Today, the Office of Naval Research revealed its latest energy weapon craving: vehicle-mounted lasers that shoot down drones. Dubbed Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-The-Move, the project is offering private outfits up to $ 400,000 each to develop such a system that blasts at full power for 120 seconds and juices back up to 80 percent after a 20 minute charge. The beam is required to pack a punch of at least 25 kilowatts, while the ability to ratchet up to 50 kilowatts is optional. Given that kind of power, Wired points out that making such a solution fit in a Humvee is going to be a feat — especially when the Navy says it can’t weigh more than 2,000 pounds and must fit entirely within a vehicle’s cargo area. Have blueprints for a jeep-mountable laser squirreled away in your basement hobby shop? You’ll have to send your application in by 2 PM on April 26th to qualify for the federal cash.

[Image credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery, Flickr]

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Via: Wired

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NVIDIA details how its Jetson development kit creates smart, seeing cars

Posted by Gsurface on March 24, 2013 No comments

Developing a high-end in-car infotainment system can present challenges that don’t exist in other platforms — you’re juggling core car systems, a myriad of sensors and media playback in a testbed on wheels. NVIDIA has just explained how it’s uniting those elements with its new, lengthily-titled Jetson Automotive Development Platform. While it looks like a single-DIN car stereo laid bare, the configurable kit incorporates a Tegra processor (for usual infotainment functions), multiple car-friendly interfaces and a Kepler-based graphics chipset that can power car detection, lane departure and other computer vision systems by using CUDA or OpenCV code. The net effect should be a much simpler development process: automakers can consolidate some of their test hardware in one Jetson unit that they can upgrade or swap out if newer technology comes along. NVIDIA isn’t naming the handful of designers and suppliers that are already building car electronics using Jetson, although history offers a few possible candidates.

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Source: NVIDIA (1), (2)

NVIDIA Jetson Development Platform hits smart cars with CUDA and Kepler power

Posted by Gsurface on March 22, 2013 No comments

If you’ve been following NVIDIA’s news blasts this past week, you know that they’ve revealed their next-generation chipset to be working with CUDA-capable GPUs. What’s more, you’ll have a bit of an idea what that means for mobile devices, the computing power they’ll have extremely soon, and you’ll be pumped up about that power coming

Spaceport Development Picks Up Steam In Texas

Posted by Gsurface on March 8, 2013 No comments

RocketAcademy writes “The Lone Star State is moving to become a leader in spaceport development. The Houston Airport System is officially moving ahead with plans to turn Ellington Airport, near NASA’s Johnson Space Center, into an FAA-licensed commercial spaceport. The airport system has completed a feasibility study for turning the field into a spaceport for suborbital spacecraft such as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two and XCOR’s Lynx. In the longer term, spacecraft could link Houston to Singapore in as little as three hours, according to airport system director Mario Diaz. Meanwhile, state Representative Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville) introduced a bill that would allow county commissioners to close a local beach for launches from the proposed SpaceX launch site in Cameron County. The bill is part of a flood of spaceport-related legislation that has been introduced recently in the Texas legislature.”

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NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting

Posted by Gsurface on February 17, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “NetBSD 7.0 will support the Lua scripting language within its kernel for developing drivers and new sub-systems. A Lua scripting interpreter is being added to the NetBSD kernel along with a kernel API so developers can use this scripting language rather than C for developing new BSD kernel components. Expressed reasons for supporting a scripting language in a kernel were rapid application development, better configuration, and “modifying software written in C is hard for users.” In a presentation it was said that Lua in the kernel will let users explore their system in an easy way.”

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Apple And Google Still Lead WebKit Development, But More Smaller Companies Contributing

Posted by Gsurface on February 10, 2013 No comments

Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google accounts for the bulk of commits, having overtaken Apple in that regard back in 2009 (though Apple still does much more with fewer authors actually writing code), but the more interesting story here is that the impact of other parties is steadily growing.
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The History of Visual Development Environments

Posted by Gsurface on February 5, 2013 No comments

Esther Schindler writes “There was a time when programs were written in text editors. And when competition between C++ vendors was actually fierce. Step into the time travel machine as Andy Patrizio revisits the evolution and impact of the visual development metaphor. ‘Visual development in its earliest stages was limited by what the PC could do. But for the IBM PC in the early 1980s, with its single-tasking operating system and 8- or 16-bit hardware, the previous software development process was text edit, compile, write down the errors, and debug with your eyes.’ Where do you start? ‘While TurboPascal launched the idea of an integrated development environment, [Jeff] Duntemann credits Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB), launched in 1991, with being the first real IDE.’… And yes, there’s plenty more.” A comment attached to the story lists two IDEs that preceded VB; can you name others?

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Ravello Systems Raises $26M And Launches App Cloud Capsule For Test And Development

Posted by Gsurface on February 5, 2013 No comments

Ravello Systems has raised $ 26 million for a new way to launch applications into the cloud. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating.

The company uses the metaphor of a capsule to demonstrate how its software can package apps and launch them into public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ravello Systems will initially offer its “application hypervisor” service for test and development, automating the way applications get deployed to the cloud.
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Google’s No. 1 Asset Is Its Ability To Empathize With Its Users Through Design And Product Development

Posted by Gsurface on January 30, 2013 No comments

As your Internet use has evolved, Google has evolved with you. And for you. Its ability to make the right decisions about what to work on and at what time is a testament to the leadership at the company. The latest wave in its evolution comes from Sergey Brin and its new CEO Larry Page, the people who started Google back in 1998. If you’ve thought that all of Google’s products looked cobbled together, or are different from one another, it’s because they were. It was a public view into how siloed the company was as far as its product-management and design teams were concerned. Everyone worked in a vacuum, so when a new version of Google Calendar came out, it looked nothing like the user experience of, say, Gmail. While this didn’t seem like a problem for a long time, as more people used more Google products, it became clear that Google was a huge company that wasn’t in touch with its users — or each other. What I’ve also learned while covering Google over the past two years is that it has an uncanny ability to put itself in the shoes of its users, almost to the point where they can leverage data and feedback to build, in essence, the perfect product. When I say perfect, I don’t mean flawless. I mean that when you use Google products, you’re in essence a Googler, too. Google takes the concept of “dogfooding” to unparalleled levels, putting current and new products through such rigorous real-world testing cycles, that it’s impressive that things ever see the light of day. When you scrutinize something so much, it’s easy to scrap it because you’ve fallen out of love with it after seeing it all the time. Not Google, because it has a system in place to get feedback from both employees and outside users. The system makes the go-to-market plan a near bullet-proof approach to launching products, because there’s a good sense that it’s something that people will want to use, and use a lot. But lately, people have noticed a bit of a change in how Google designs its products. Some of the “look and feel” has been infused in everything that Google touches these days. Whether it’s Google+ functionality, Search, Maps or YouTube, you’re starting to see a little bit of “style” come out of Mountain View. That’s not an accident, because it
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EU backs consortium in billion-euro program to hasten graphene development

Posted by Gsurface on January 29, 2013 No comments

If you’re anxious for all this talk about graphene to materialize into products that can be tucked away in your shoulder bag, you’re certainly not alone. A consortium dubbed the Graphene Flagship, which includes heavyweights such as Nokia and the University of Cambridge, has been selected by the European Union to participate in a program that’ll endow it with 1 billion euros over 10 years to make that happen. The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors. During the first 30 months of the program, 126 academic and industrial research groups spread throughout 17 European countries will have their collective pockets filled with an initial 54 million euro budget to kick things off. It’s a long haul, but here’s hoping Espoo’s Morph concept inches a little closer to reality.

[Image credit: Nokia]

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Via: Nokia Conversations

Source: Graphene Flagship (PDF)

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Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development

Posted by Gsurface on January 24, 2013 No comments

judgecorp writes “Linux kernel developer Alan Cox has left Intel and Linux development after slamming the Fedora 18 distribution. He made the announcement on Google+ and promised that he had not fallen out with Linus Torvalds, and would finish up all outstanding work.” Also at Live Mint, which calls Cox’s resignation notice a “welcome change from the sterility, plain dishonesty of CEO departure statements.” Cox says in that statement that he’s leaving “for a bit,” and “I may be back at some point in the future – who knows.”

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Google Glass development charges ahead

Posted by Gsurface on January 2, 2013 No comments

As the tech giant gets ready to ship its wearable platform to developers this year, it continues to tinker with software, hardware, phone call capability, battery life, and voice commands. [Read more]

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Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money

Posted by Gsurface on December 30, 2012 No comments

mbadolato writes “On December 9, 2012, Slashdot reported that the FreeBSD Foundation was falling short of their 2012 goal of $ 500,000 by nearly 50%. For all of those that continued to echo about how FreeBSD is dying, it’s less than three weeks later and the total is presently nearing $ 200,000 OVER the goal. Netcraft continues to be wrong.” And reader hypnosec adds another crowdfunding success story: “The Wikimedia Foundation has announced at the conclusion of its ninth annual fund-raiser that it has managed to raise a whopping $ 25 million from 1.2 million donors in just over a week’s time. … As compared to last year’s fund-raiser, which got completed in 46 days, this year’s was completed in just nine days.”

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After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out

Posted by Gsurface on December 22, 2012 No comments

The Enlightenment front page bears this small announcement: “E17 release HAS HAPPENED!” The release announcement is remarkably spartan — it’s mostly a tribute to the dozens of contributors who have worked on the software itself and on translating it into many languages besides system-default English. On the other hand, if you’ve been waiting since December 2000 for E17 (also known as Enlightenment 0.17), you probably have some idea that Enlightenment is a window manager (or possibly a desktop environment: the developers try to defuse any dispute on that front, but suffice it to say that you can think of it either way), and that the coders are more interested in putting out the software that they consider sufficiently done than in incrementing release numbers. That means they’ve made some side trips along the way, Knuth-like, to do things like create an entire set of underlying portable libraries. The release candidate changelog of a few days ago gives an idea of the very latest changes, but this overview shows and tells what to expect in E17. If you’re among those disappointed in the way some desktop environments have tended toward simplicity at the expense of flexibility, you can be sure that Enlightenment runs the other way: “We don’t go quietly into the night and remove options when no one is looking. None of those new big version releases with fanfare and “Hey look! Now with half the options you used to have!”. We sneak in when you least expect it and plant a whole forest of new option seeds, watching them spring to life. We nail new options to walls on a regular basis. We bake options-cakes and hand them out at parties. Options are good. Options are awesome. We have lots of them. Spend some quality time getting to know your new garden of options in E17. It may just finally give you the control you have been pining for.”

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Going For “Pretty First” Is Wrong: A Designer’s Take On App Development

Posted by Gsurface on November 25, 2012 No comments

Editor’s note: Chloë Bregman is a product designer working on a new communications startup. Most recently, Chloë designed DrawChat and helped ignite Changemakrs.

“Pretty first” is when a startup focuses on creating a visually beautiful design for its app before determining whether the product has purpose and is useful. It’s the wrong approach.
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Mozilla quietly ceases Firefox 64-bit development

Posted by Gsurface on November 22, 2012 No comments

Mozilla’s engineering manager has requested that developers stop work on Windows 64-bit builds of Firefox. [Read more]

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New SharePoint development model triggers hopes, questions

Posted by Gsurface on November 17, 2012 No comments

SharePoint's new application development model has piqued the interest of ISVs and enterprise developers who create applications for Microsoft's enterprise collaboration server.
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TomTom opens portal for rapid location-based app development

Posted by Gsurface on November 15, 2012 No comments

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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Brightcove Adds Native Plugin Architecture To Its App Cloud, Improving Cross-Platform, Hybrid App Development

Posted by Gsurface on November 15, 2012 No comments

Brightcove expanded beyond video content management and rolled out its platform for mobile app development about 18 months ago. It then released an update to the platform, which included a free version under an open source license, just a few months ago. Now, it’s updated the platform again, adding improved features for mobile app developers which wish to create hybrid mobile apps. Hybrid apps have gotten a bit of a bad name in the development community recently. While having some basis in HTML5 enables app makers to easily reuse common elements between device platforms without writing too much native code, the downside is that those hybrid apps tend to not perform very well when compared to native apps. The best example might be Facebook’s clunky old iOS apps, which were based on a hybrid infrastructure before scrapping the whole thing and going native. But talk to Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, and you get the impression that the war between different mobile platforms is overblown, that developers don’t have to pick between building for either Android or iOS, or building native apps versus building those based on HTML5. That’s what App Cloud hopes to accomplish, at least. According to him, developers gain by being able to reuse code the front end while having platform-specific plugins to provide native code on the back end. The new App Cloud will have the same web-based WYSIWYG-type development tools, allowing publishers to quickly and efficiently roll out apps that work on iOS and Android with little duplicate development. Brightcove is hoping to speed up development and provide better performance and more flexibility to developers trying to reach Android and iOS devices by introducing a new plugin model for certain types of native app functions. That includes integration with technology from companies like Google and comScore, as well as integrated support for push notifications. All developers have to do to install a plugin is to copy a directory into their App Cloud project, and include a JavaScript file. The platform then adds that functionality into the application. Plugins that Brightcove has created for the tool include a native media uploader, a native audio player, an in-app email composer, as well as those that connect with third-party sources like Google Analytics. The company also has future plans for plugins like a native video player, DRM, and in-app purchasing. While Brightcove is best known for its video management
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Yammer already part of Microsoft’s software development process

Posted by Gsurface on November 13, 2012 No comments

Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer, the ESN (enterprise social networking) vendor it acquired several months ago.
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Twitter Poaches Former Google Exec Matt Derella As New Director Of Agency Business Development

Posted by Gsurface on October 22, 2012 No comments

According to AdAge, Twitter is taking this whole brand thing seriously, as it has hired away a prominent Googler, Matt Derella, to be its new Director of Agency Business Development.

This is a huge development for Twitter, which as we’ve pointed out is moving closer and closer to the media industry. Execs at top agencies, firms and networks are all over Twitter to become more involved with the network, we’ve learned.
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ZombiU story detailed in new development diary

Posted by Gsurface on October 6, 2012 No comments

The Wii U has a pretty impressive launch line-up, to be sure, but it seems that one of the best launch titles for the console will be Ubisoft‘s ZombiU. We’ve already seen and heard some great things about ZombiU, and today we’re finding out more about the game’s story and characters thanks to a new