The well-known company that provides helpful apps and tools for designers and web developers, ZURB has recently acquired Forrst, a community for designers and developers. A perfect match since the two targets each other’s demographic and both serve to help you enhance your craft. …
It was recently revealed that Twitter has over 500 million users. Now the fat birds of microblogging are planning to virtually pull the plug on many apps and services that have been built around their API with a post about the news yesterday. The closing in of their walled garden is another example of a popular service that is starting to get sick of others making money off of them. Marco Arment gives a great layman’s interpretation of what’s happening here. Phrases such as “choke access”, “pushed developers aside”, and “talk to the hand” have been used to describe this behavior, currently being…
Since the dawn of graphic interfaces on computers, designers and developers have faced off over the proper ways to present data and tools. The aesthetics that please designers often conflicts with the functionality and ease that pleases developers. This battle is spilling over into iOS app development, but it doesn’t have to get bloody. In this graphic, the war is brought into the realm of compromise with these tips for designers that can cut off the objections before they materialize. With the right tact, proper techniques, and patience for the “less creative” types on the other side of the…
The Android Developers blog announced that they are launching a beta of Android Training, “a collection of classes that we hope will help you to build better Android apps.” As the battle between Android and iOS continues to expand and with Microsoft creeping up slowly behind them, the need for better apps is high. It seems that everyone, even Microsoft, have enough apps. Android is hoping to help developers build the best apps available through this training. With resources on topics ranging from Implementing Adaptive UI Flows to Advertising without Compromising User Experience, Google hopes…
The vultures are circling the failed webOS-powered hardware victims, particularly the developers who have been making their money around building apps on the platform. Brandon Watson, the man responsible for apps and developers for Windows Phones, sent out a tweet on Friday to attract a response. The response has been huge. Currently, nearly 1000 webOS developers have attempted to take him up on his offer. To qualify, developers must have at least one application published on the webOS App Catalog. With Android and iOS exploding with apps and being hit up by tens of thousands of developers…
The battle between web designers and web developers has been going on since the establishment of web designers and web developers. It’s like salespeople versus production people. Apple vs Mac. Coke vs Pepsi. They will always be at at each others’ throats. Today, we look at the lighter side of the debate from Wix. It may be comical and somewhat insulting to both (no, most web designers or developers that I know are not afraid of women) but it does bring up an easier-to-understand roundup of perceptions and the differences between each job. Both are crucial to the success of a website. Which is more…
Lodsys is a company on a mission. They have been determined to sue iOS developers who are, in their eyes, illegally using their own patents. But it’s more complicated than that. Apple licensed these patents and, in some cases, require them to be used by iOS developers. So who is responsible here in the impending legal battles? That’s what we’re all trying to figure out. After an initial round of legal threats were presented to various iOS developers on behalf of Lodsys, Apple remained quiet while the world reacted. But the overall consensus seemed to be that Apple should stick up for their third-party…
We all know Google staff get to spend 10 percent of their time working on their own projects, and we know Google to be a search, mobile and ads sales business with a plethora of hobbies, but now it looks like the giant firm wants to bring in even more engineers, making a deal to buy Israeli Web gadgets provider LabPixies. Israeli financial news website TheMarker said Google paid $25 million for LabPixies, a developer of virtual gadgets ranging from calendars, news feeds and to-do lists to entertainment and games . The company was one of the first to begin development of personalized Web gadgets (aka:…
Apple is inviting developers hoping to offer apps for the iPad on the day it ships (April 3) to submit their software to the iTunes team for approval by March 27. Developers who do get their code into Apple in time have a chance of seeing their app in among the first collection of apps made available for the iPad when that product first begins to reach US customers. Submission by the date doesn’t guarantee Apple will approve apps in time. Source: Distorted Loop…
