Opinion: My game design hat

9 February 2012, 2:04 am

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Nlogn Information's Charilaos Kalogirou shares the various ways he had to "improve the fit" of his game design hat while trying to create an approachable and addictive game.] One of the main traits that an indie developer must cultivate is that o... Read More »

AppFog Enhances User Experience With Additional Add-On Partners Blitz.io and Iron.io

8 February 2012, 6:31 am

AppFog, the leading cloud-based platform-as-a-service , today announced the addition of Blitz.io and Iron.io to its recently introduced add-on program for third-party service providers.... Read More »

The Darkness II review

7 February 2012, 4:00 pm

Perhaps I have a touch of monster in me, but there is just something infinitely satisfying about ripping people apart with demon arms and making them run from me as if I were a vengeful god, showing my displeasure at their heathen ways. But before that gets taken out of context and is possibly used ... Read More »

ActiveState Delivers Komodo 7 IDE for Dynamic Language Development

6 February 2012, 3:12 pm

ActiveState , a provider of software development environments for dynamic language programmers, has announced version 7 of its Komodo integrated development environment (IDE), for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, web and cloud development.... Read More »

Softaculous intros new version 4.0 with PHP 5.3.9

5 February 2012, 11:27 pm

BANGALORE, INDIA: Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Softaculous Auto Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various hosting platforms, announced that they have launched version 4.0.... Read More »

Komodo 7.0 IDE Syncs Up Development

2 February 2012, 5:32 am

Developer.com: Developer tools vendor ActiveState is out with a major new release of their Mozilla-powered Komodo IDE.... Read More »

Software developer groups, events added to EnterChange

31 January 2012, 10:45 pm

During my research for an upcoming story, I learned about some very tech-focused groups and organizations around town. I'll be adding their meetings to the EnterChange calendar from now on, but here's a quick rundown.... Read More »

[Infographic] PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby

26 January 2012, 8:08 am

Udemy has put together an infographic that compares Ruby, PHP and Python. This looks (briefly) at the history, popularity, ease of use, demand for programmers, benchmarks and more for each language. If you're job-hunting, Udemy says that you probably want to know PHP above Ruby or Python. Accord... Read More »

7 Companies Hiring Node.js Developers

24 January 2012, 10:00 pm

I’ve mentioned that experienced Node.js talent is hard to find, but here’s a look at a few of jobs that these rare developers are being asked to do. Braintree Payments Braintree Payments is looking for a developer to work on … Continue reading → 7 Companies Hiring Node.js Developers is a pos... Read More »

Developer news: NetBeans 7.1, Zend Server 5.6, WebMatrix 2 beta

16 January 2012, 10:48 pm

Justin James highlights Iron Speed for mobile, PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python, NYC's high school for programmers, HTML5 canvas tag tutorial, and more.... Read More »