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How They Did It: Cut the Rope in HTML5

First it was Angry Birds, now the popular mobile game "Cut the Rope" has been completely converted to HTML5.

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When are servers not servers?

In his Dr Dobb’s overview, Andrew Binstock talks about the prevalence of low-cost, low-powers and suggest in the title of the piece that they have begun...

0 replies - 795 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

The Cloud Responsibility Crisis

If you develop and deploy software the way I do, you've fallen in love with cloud hosting. It's just so easy. Need to test something in a safe sandbox? ...

0 replies - 241 views - 01/15/12 by Cody Powell in Articles

The Cloudcast - Eps.27 - 2011 in Review, 2012 Predictions

 Our Favorite Things from 2011:

0 replies - 583 views - 12/25/11 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Graceful Degradation and How It Tricks You

When Firefox finally bloomed to challenge the reign of IE6, it provided the first spark for the current browser wars. To rise to the challenge of properly...

0 replies - 1255 views - 12/17/11 by Niels Matthijs in Articles

About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or,...

0 replies - 1161 views - 12/11/11 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Will PHP Become a Niche Language?

If any language isn't a niche language, PHP isn't. Every version builds more functionality into the core, and its applications seem endless.Its ubiquity,...

0 replies - 2193 views - 12/09/11 by John Esposito in Articles

What I learned in the Global Day of Code Retreat

This Saturday, 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to improve their skills. This Global Day of Code Retreat was the...

2 replies - 3399 views - 12/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Visual Inconsistency and the WP7 Application Bar

Petter Silfver, a UI/UX designer in Stockholm, has a problem with the Windows Phone 7's application bar icons.  You see, the Microsoft UxD Guidelines have...

1 replies - 721 views - 11/28/11 by David Pell in Articles

Rolling Forward and other Deployment Myths

There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people that are worth listening to and...

0 replies - 1030 views - 11/24/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

Debate: Is Agile a Religion?

Three years ago Tony Morris asserted that Agile is a non-idea, an unfalsifiable pseudo-science.  To illustrate his claims he drew an analogy between Agile and...

0 replies - 805 views - 11/22/11 by David Pell in Articles

Coming down to earth? Mixpanel's reasons for leaving the cloud

"Why use the cloud?" This is not a serious question: seriously, why worry about which computers are hosting you when you can be certain that some ...

0 replies - 1820 views - 10/28/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Changing the game: HTML5 winners and losers

HTML5 is obviously a 'game-changer' in some sense. From a pure developer's point of view, the HTML5 game is pretty darn awesome -- especially for programmers a...

0 replies - 2097 views - 10/26/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Robots Have Taken James Gosling Away From Google

Well that didn't last very long.  For just 5 months, Google employed the renowned Father of Java.  Now developers can forget about seeing anything amazing...

3 replies - 21397 views - 08/31/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Steve Jobs: "I Hereby Resign as CEO of Apple"

Breaking news on Wednesday evening as a press release has hit the wires containing an official letter of resignation from Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple.  In...

0 replies - 13279 views - 08/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Amazon Reveals New In-Memory Caching System "ElastiCache"

Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service...

0 replies - 14246 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose