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Knight-Mozilla OpenNews wants to bring journalists and hackers together
thenextweb.com
Have you heard of OpenNews? This is the new name of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, its head Dan Sinker announced today in a blog post. As you may remember, Mozilla and the Knight Foundation have been partnering since 2011, with the ambition to invent the future of journalism by...
MacLegion Bundle: 10 Mac Apps for $49.99, Including Djay, Fantastical, and Capo
www.macrumors.com
A few times a year, MacRumors partners with one of the Mac App Bundle organizers to promote their bundle deal. The latest bundle comes from MacLegion and delivers 10 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $548.80 value if all purchased separately). - TechTool Pro ($99.99) - Hardware diagnostics, maintenance and hard...
Panic launches two new Web development apps: Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad
thenextweb.com
Panic has just released two brand new apps today:Coda 2, the long awaited update to the popular Mac Web editor, and Diet Coda, a wonderfully slimmed down Web editor for the iPad. Both apps feel entirely fresh and are sure to make waves in the front-end development community. As any...
Google Now Could Arrive On The Web, Making The Timely Assistant Truly Cross-Platform
techcrunch.com
Google Now is one of the best things to happen to Android in a while, and now new code discovered in a sample page taken from Google itself suggests it could arrive on the desktop, not just via Chrome but through the Google homepage itself. Code snippets include provisions for...
Facebook platform update: FBML apps won’t work after today, live stream plugin to be removed
www.insidefacebook.com
FBML apps are set to stop working today as part of the removal of Facebook Markup Language. Facebook also announced that it will remove the live stream plugin from the platform in favor of the comments box. Some old page tab applications and very early canvas games that have not...
Apple teams up with W3C, Google, Facebook, & others for new Web Platform developer resource
9to5mac.com
A new website recently launched by the W3C in partnership with a number of the biggest tech companies aims to be the ultimate resource for developers looking for information on HTML5, CSS3, and a number of other open web standards. Accessible at webplatform.org, the new site includes documents, forums,...
Ludei unveils CAAT game engine for quick mobile development (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
Ludei recently launched its own tools for creating super-fast mobile games. Now it is enhancing that with the release of its full-scale development engine. Joe Monastiero, president of San Francisco-based Ludei, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game engine is the company’s “secret weapon” that has been in...
Introducing Paymill: The Stripe ripoff by Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet
thenextweb.com
Cue the imitation equals flattery quote, because the Samwer brothers are back with a Stripe clone by the name of Paymill, reports Gruender Szene. For those out of the loop, Stripe is popular payment processing API marketed directly to developers. As our own Rober Wauters noted, the Samwers’ Rocket Internet company is a controversial German...
GitHub adds support for '0x10c,' the new game from 'Minecraft' creator Notch
www.theverge.com
This time last week, Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson announced his new game 0x10c, a space exploration simulator where players have to program their craft's DCPU-16 CPU in order to navigate through the galaxies. Now, open source code repository GitHub has announced that it has added support for the...
Judge asks Oracle and Google excellent questions about Android/Java interoperability
www.fosspatents.com
Shortly before 6 AM local time, Judge Alsup entered a request for further briefing from Oracle and Google regarding "interfaces, exceptions and interoperability". The request has two parts:The first question relates to interfaces and exceptions. I will comment on the parties' answers (due by noon local time on Wednesday) if...
Confirmed: Forrst acquired by Colourlovers
venturebeat.com
Forrst, the sexy site for showing off design and code snippets, has been acquired by designophile site Colourlovers. Forrst founder Kyle Bragger confirmed the news this morning to VentureBeat via email. Colourlovers is a loosely organized community that’s all about colors and patterns; it’s the machine power behind Twitter’s...
Android may include multiplayer gaming features in next update, suggests MyGlass app code
www.theverge.com
Snippets of code found in Google's new MyGlass app hint that the company may be working on background improvements to Android that would enhance multiplayer gaming on the platform. Findings and analysis by Android Police suggest that a future update to Android could include tools that allow game developers...
Review: Write better-formatted messages with Markdown Here
www.pcworld.com
Gmail doesn't offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more attactive. That's fine for most emails, but sometimes you need a bit more pizzazz--like, say, a headline. Then again, maybe you often email code snippets, and could use some automatic syntax coloring. Markdown...
Google teams up with W3C, Apple, Facebook, & others for new Web Platform developer resource
9to5google.com
A new website recently launched by the W3C in partnership with a number of the biggest tech companies aims to be the ultimate resource for developers looking for information on HTML5, CSS3, and a number of other open web standards. Accessible at webplatform.org, the new site includes documents, forums, chat, and tutorials,...
Facebook Ads Manager add-on helps marketers get more bang for their buck
venturebeat.com
Facebook is now better assisting its direct response marketers with the addition of a self-service Ads Manager tool designed to measure and optimize campaign performance. In an expansion to its “Optimized CPM” (OCPM) bidding program, Facebook has crafted a two-part addition for marketers who want to drive specific digital...
Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker
venturebeat.com
An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above. We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords there, so let’s back it up a bit. The bot was built...
Google adds multi-currency e-commerce support to Analytics, rolling out to all 'over the next few weeks'
thenextweb.com
Google on Wednesday announced multi-currency e-commerce support for Google Analytics, saying the feature “will be rolling out to all users over the next few weeks.” The move is being made in response to user feedback, according to the company. Multi-currency support means Analytics users can track transaction metrics (total revenue,...
Google adds multi-currency e-commerce support to Analytics, rolling out to all 'over the next few weeks'
Xamarin 2.0 launches to help developers build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
pandodaily.com
Xamarin is today announcing version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development framework, which allows developers to develop native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone from a single codebase. The updated platform, which is used by Rdio, WebMD, and NASA, among others, introduces new support for Microsoft Visual Studio,...
75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP | tripwire magazine
www.sordyl.info
Images says more than a thousands words. It is common sense and wise people has followed this rule for centuries by creating illustrations of thier ideas and thoughts. Today it is easier than ever as the technology for presenting nearly any type of information as a graph or chart...
Making your app searchable using self merge-joins
googleappengine.blogspot.com
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as developers, you know that a working code snippet can be worth even more. The developers at scisurfer.com have agreed to share a few of their code snippets with you today. The snippets outline how they full text index their content and...
Sitemap Generators - A collection of links to tools and code snippets that generate Sitemap files
code.google.com
8 useful code snippets to get started with WordPress 3.0
www.catswhocode.com
CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Help Cheat Sheets (PDF)
www.smashingmagazine.com
Today we are glad to release two useful cheat sheets that will help you quickly look up the right CSS 2.1-property or an obscure CSS 3 property. The style sheets contain most important properties, explanations and keywords for each property. The help sheets were created by GoSquared and released...
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