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.

JavaScript Profiling: HTML5 Canvas

Learn to use JavaScript performance profilers, with an HTML5 Canvas example.

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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

Firefox 7 Beta Continues Mozilla's Updating Blitz

Following a routine that gives users a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks, Mozilla has announced a beta of Firefox 7, which will use as much as 50 percent...

0 replies - 20242 views - 08/21/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: The End is Nigh - IBM Builds Cognitive Computing Chips

The brilliant engineers and scientists over at Cyberdyne Systems IBM introduced the "first computing core that combines digital 'neurons' and on-chip...

2 replies - 19685 views - 08/18/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: The W3C Creates Two New Platforms For Specification Development

The W3C created two new platforms for developing specifications, with the intent of getting more input from individuals and organizations. The two platforms...

0 replies - 23341 views - 08/17/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Firefox Drops Version Numbers

Today, Mozilla's community coordinator Asa Dotzler announced that future Firefox users will not be shown their browser's version number. Despite complaints and...

6 replies - 20967 views - 08/16/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Google Buys Motorola For 12.5 Billion

Today, Google announced their acquisition of mobile phone company Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion. According to the press release, Motorola Mobility will be...

0 replies - 18270 views - 08/15/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client Support

One of the most promising features coming in Chrome 14 is the addition of the Native Client, which lets C and C++ code run inside of the browser. Google has...

1 replies - 17708 views - 08/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Support

One of the most promising features coming in Chrome 14 is the addition of the Native Client, which lets C and C++ code run inside of the browser. Google has...

0 replies - 14789 views - 08/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Google Asks ITC To Stop Microsoft Witness Testimony

Google asked a judge at the International Trade Commission to prevent key Microsoft witness Dr. Robert Stevenson from testifying in a case against...

0 replies - 17219 views - 08/11/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 Adds Normalize.css, Respond.js Support

Today is HTML5 Boilerplate's first birthday, and to celebrate, the developers behind the popular HTML5, CSS, and Javascript templates released version 2.0. The...

0 replies - 17304 views - 08/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Mac OS More Popular in Development than Linux, According to Survey

According to a recent survey on a variety of development topics conducted by Evans Data, Mac operating systems have moved ahead of Linux in popularity as a...

0 replies - 18208 views - 08/09/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Eclipse adds Java 7 Support

The latest version of the Eclipse development enviroment, version 3.8M1, was released today. The IDE is now on par with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 and Netbeans 7.0.1...

0 replies - 18039 views - 08/08/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Cloudera And Dell Set To Deliver "Complete" Hadoop Solution

Cloudera and Dell have partnered to deliver the industry's first total Apache Hadoop solution, which will combine Dell servers and networking components with...

0 replies - 15990 views - 08/07/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose