Progress Software has agreed to acquire application development tools provider Telerik for US$262.5 million. Progress Software has a wide portfolio of development, deployment, integration and management applications, such as the OpenEdge, Pacific and Modulus platforms. The addition of Telerik’s developer tool offerings—including the Kendo UI framework and UIs for Web and mobile development—augments the wider … continue reading
In January 2012, three Twitter engineers were in charge of writing and maintaining the entire codebase for Android. New versions of the app were released every two to three months. Twitter’s mobile development needed to scale way up, and to do that the social networking company needed not only to restructure its development team, but … continue reading
Microsoft releases WinJS 3.0 with multiplatform support, nixes developer fees Microsoft has released version 3.0 of WinJS, the Windows library for JavaScript, adding cross-platform and cross-browser support, JavaScript modularization, and improved universal control designs. The update adds support for popular Web and mobile browsers, as well as HTML-based app environments, including Apache Cordova. According to … continue reading
Experimental Lisp language written in C transpiles into JavaScript Awl—an experimental mini-language written in C to explore interpreter design—can transpile its code into JavaScript. Created by programmer Zaven Muradyan, Awl is based on the Lisp family of programming languages. It also uses the Emscripten LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler with C features such as the most recent Clang … continue reading
With the overwhelming success of everything mobile, it’s no wonder that every developer wants to get into this space. Building mobile apps puts developers on the cutting edge, the skills are sought after, and the profession is highly lucrative. But not everyone who jumps into mobile is guaranteed success. A good mobile developer brings a … continue reading
Latest release of Dart comes with development version of Dartium Chrome build for Android devices … continue reading
Tizen’s desire to push itself onto developers is reminiscent of other failed efforts, mainly MeeGo … continue reading
Mobile developers have a lot to like in Apple’s newest programming language … continue reading
The Telerik Platform allows developers to pick the best approach for any project … continue reading
Survey finds JavaScript as clear winner when it comes to relevance of languages for mobile app development … continue reading
Will your company provide Web experiences tailored to users’ devices? Or will you use responsive Web design? … continue reading
Mobile, social and Web-based applications will create huge opportunities to innovate, engage employees and customers … continue reading
