Web Development Daily News

DreamFactory Radically Simplifies Mobile Enterprise Application Development

DreamFactory launches a new, open-source platform for building secure mobile HTML5 and native apps for the enterprise.

Facebook gets into the Dev Tool Business with the purchase of Parse

Facebook announces acquisition of Parse, a provider of a cloud-based app development platform that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps

IBM Accelerates Application LifeCycle Wars with the Acquisition of UrbanCode

The IBM-UrbanCode deal and what it means for the future trajectory of the DevOps movement.

Joomla! 3.1.0 Released

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3.1.0 Stable.

iPad Users Will Soon have a Surface-Style Keyboard Cover

Logitech’s new accessory offers a Surface style, protective touch cover for Apple’s iPad.

Wijmo 2013 v1 Releases Mobile Widgets and an HTML5 Spreadsheet Control

A Collection of UI Widgets for Both Mobile and Web Development now with BreezeJS Support.

HTML5 Specialist Spaceport.io Moves to Facebook

Tech Team behind HTML5 web gaming tech Spaceport.io moves to Facebook in an effort to work more closely with the social networking behemoth.

Fujitsu Announces the Launch of New Software to Leverage Smart Device Data

Supports the transformation of user work styles via smart devices.

Codejock Announces the Release of Toolkit Pro 2013

Codejock Toolkit Pro 2013 for Visual C++ MFC is now available for download including lots of new and time saving features.  

Intel Announces Free HTML5 Development Environment

Using the Intel Developer Forum event this week, Intel lifted the vial on their new HTML5 Development Environment.

Typemock Launches Community for Developers in Early Stages of Unit Testing Adoption

With over 50,000 Typemock users worldwide, we have seen time and again cases where developers - who believe in the benefits of Unit testing – drop it after facing opposition from management, harsh deadlines or other early challenges. Typemock wants to help developers overcome the early obstacles they face.

Adobe Transforms MAX into the Creativity Conference

New Focus for Event Explores the Ideas, Inspirations and Technologies that Push the Boundaries of Creative Thinking.

Xilinx Extends C-programmable FPGAs

Xilinx extends Vivado FPGA design tool to allow FPGA users to programme FPGAs using C.

Polarion Software and Vector Software Announce Strategic Partnership

Application Lifecycle Management Provider teams up with dynamic software testing industry leader to produce and improve new software verification and validation regulated environment.

BloggingWordPress.net Rolls Out Top 10 Business and E-Commerce WordPress Themes for 2013

Blogging WordPress offers WordPress themes in addition to design tips, inspiration, tools, tutorials, and web resources to many web designers and developers across the globe.

Accusoft Releases USB Scanner Toolkit for Android

New SDK allows developers to use USB scanner hardware through their Android apps.

Digia Announces the Release of Qt 5.1 with Android and iOS Support

The software development toolkit Qt brings support for Android and iOS mobile apps.

Winner of Best Joomla Hosting 2013 Announced By BestHostingSearch.com

BestHostingSearch.com announced BlueHost as the best Joomla hosting 2013 based on the comparison of over 100+ budget web hosts which they had reviewed since 2006.

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox’s JavaScript

In a move that puts Firefox far ahead in the area of JavaScript performance over Google’s Chrome, Firefox moves ahead with OdinMonkey boosting JavaScript performance by 1000% or more.

Telerik’s Developer Toolset, Kendo UI HTML5 Framework Adds Server-Side Wrappers

Telerik Kendo UI offers a new release adding PHP and JavaServer Pages server wrapper or JSP.

Chorus.im Aims their Sites on Something More Than Just another Messaging App

Chorus.im has created a free HTML5 Messenger App that works across every modern mobile device as well as any PC platform.

Nintendo Announces the Release of Their New Web Framework

Supporting the development of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS apps on the Wii U, Nintendo has release their new Web Framework.

GCC 4.8 Completes Move to C++

The most recent version of the GCC or GNU Compiler Collection has now been released, marking the completion of its conversion to C++.

QCon New York 2013: JavaScript, HTML5, Future of Mobile Tracks; Schedule Now Live!

QCon New York 2013 event schedule has been posted and registration is now active.

Echo Announces the Release of Their all new JavaScript SDK

Designed to help developers create social apps for all media types, TV, music, news, and more, Echo has released its Echo JS SDK.

BPA Announces New CRM for SharePoint 2013 – Coming Spring 2013

Latest release of BPA CRM is a major step forward in usability and takes advantage of key SharePoint 2013 features.

jTask Announces New SAP Partnership

jTask announces they are now authorized to sell SAP Education offerings.

JETNET iQ “State of the Market” Briefing at 2013 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition

JETNET LLC will present its latest JETNET iQ “State of the Market” Briefing at ABACE 2013 in Shanghai, China.

Genuitec MyEclipse 2013 to Include HTML5 Mobile Development Support

Genuitec will release the latest version of their Java and Web Development tool for Eclipse, MyEclipse 2013.

Freshdesk Brings Customizability Tools for CSS and JavaScript Support Theme Gallery

Freshdesk’s new Support portal design tools allow you to give customers a unique support experience with its Support Theme Gallery.

Typemock Introduces Isolator V7.3 – Offering Programmers Easier & Faster Unit Testing Solutions with a Powerful New SmartRunner

Enhanced mocking capabilities, SmartRunner and smaller memory footprint make .NET unit testing faster and easier than before.

WordPress Gets a new ‘Send to Kindle’ Button

Now available for both web publishers and Wordpress bloggers, the new ‘Send to Kindle’ button will allow users to send content directly to their Kindle with a touch of a button.

NorseCorp Announces the Launch of IPVenger

Stimulsoft Releases WinRT Report Designer

Stimulsoft has announced the release of Stimulsoft Reports, the new report designer for WinRT platform that enables you to create and edit reports on any device running Windows 8.

Philips Announces the Launch of Their Hue LED Lamp APIs and SDK

Third-party hardware and software developers can more easily design products that integrate with Philips' color-tunable Hue LED lamp using free tools.

Java Software Developer Anahata Enters Augmented Reality Development Market

Anahata Technologies PTY LTD is a Perth based Software Development Company offering Application Development and Web Development Services has announced they are Investigating the field of Augmented Reality.

Node.js Releases version 0.10

Node.js 0.10 includes significant improvements to many areas, with a focus on API polish, ease of use, and backwards compatibility.

New 10-Week Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Coming to Boston

A new Boston-based developer bootcamp kicking off this year, a 10 week, full-time Ruby on Rails bootcamp aiming to turn novices into entry level developers.

JoomlaHosting.co Announces Redesigned Responsive Website

JoomlaHosting.co is now easier to use, featuring a redesigned look that adapts to all screen sizes from mobile phones to widescreen monitors.

Xamarin Announces the Release of Their new Async-Enabled Libraries Preview for iOS and Android

Xamarin Introduces C# Async for iOS and Android, based mainly on Microsoft’s .NET 4.5 released last year as part of Visual Studio 2012.

Stimulsoft Released New Report Designer for WinRT

Stimulsoft announces the release of their new report designer for WinRT. Integrated into the software product Stimulsoft Reports.WinRT.

Joomla! Day 2013 – Boston Community Building Presentation Offers Fresh Approach

Christopher Nielsen CEO of CNP Integrations will present “Answering the right Questions for Effective Community Building” at Joomla Day Boston, to be held March 16th, 2013 at Microsoft’s NERD Center.

WordPress.com Announces the Launch of the $299 Business Tier, Includes Unlimited Storage

WordPress.com announced a new premium blog hosting tier for business customers. Dubbed WordPress.com Business.

Syncfusion Announces the Release of Essential Studio 2013 Volume 1 Including Support for WinRT

Syncfusion’s latest release delivers a complete set of controls for building line-of-business tablet applications.

PHYTEC and Timesys Announce Embedded Software Solution for Products Designed With phyCORE Vybrid System on Module (SOM)

New comprehensive hardware and software solution support for Freescale Vybrid Family of controller solutions.

Microsoft Announces the Availability of Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3

Microsoft recently announced the release of Entity Framework Alpha 2 with custom code first conventions and several other performance enhancements.

Casablanca C++ SDK Goes the way of Apache Open Source

Microsoft's C++ REST SDK, aka, Casablanca has been changed their licensing scheme to open-source and of the Apache flavor.

56% Reduction in Bugs Using Typemock Isolator in a Major Online Gaming Company

Projects that used Isolator automated unit testing solution showed reduction in bugs, resulting in substantial reduction in QA efforts and faster time to market.

Last.fm Has Released their Moost C++ Library

Last.fm’s Music Information Retrieval  team has announces the  release of their Moost C++ library of tools, the very same toolset that they use themselves.

FUJITSU TEN Reveals "HTML5" In-Car Device Prototype

Fujitsu Ten is developing a next-generation in-car device utilizing future Web standard technology and they unveiled the prototype at this year’s Mobile World Congress.

WebRev Marketing Unveils Client-Accessible Marketing Report System

WebRev Marketing & Design has unveiled their industry-leading reporting system, providing clients with anytime access to all of their custom marketing reports through WebRev’s new online dashboard utility.

WordPress Announced the Launch of Their New Product for K-12 Education Professionals

WordPress.com Classrooms allows teachers to take advantage of the blogging platform to create interactive sites to engage with students, parents or fellow teachers inside and outside the classroom.

Ruby 2.0.0-p0 Released With Lots of New Features

Everything from refined monkey patching, faster Rails start-up, and lots more.

Intel Has Procured both the HTML5 Staff and Tools from AppMobi

In a move by Intel to build out their HTML5 suite of development tools and staff for mobile apps, Intel has cleaned house at AppMobi.

Opera Makes the Move to the Open-Source WebKit Rendering Engine

Opera in-house developers downplay the Rendering Engine swap but does this seemingly major change effect you?

Oracle Releases NetBeans 7.3 IDE

NetBeans 7.3 updates include code completion feature for HTML5, JavaScript and CSS allowing Java developers to easily build rich HTML5 based user interfaces for mobile and Web based apps.

JQuery Mobile 1.3 For Responsive Web Design Released

The jQuery Mobile team has announced the first release candidate for 1.3.0.

GNOME Chooses JavaScript for Developers Working on the Project

The lead team of the GNOME project has chosen JavaScript as the first class language of choice for all developers to use when developing for the project.

New Tool From Intel Converts iOS Apps to HTML5

Intel HTML5 App Porter Tool – BETA, a new application that helps mobile application developers to port native iOS.

Adobe Announces the Release of New HTML5 Developer Tools

Adobe Edge Reflow is in public preview, and Edge Animate, Dreamweaver and Edge Code all get feature updates

Game Closure Launches Free HTML5 Mobile SDK

Game Closure announces the release of their new free HTML5 2D game SDK for mobile platforms.

WordPress.com Goes Down

Effecting millions of blogs, the WordPress.com server went down this weekend taking millions of blogs with it.

Adobe Announces a New Lineup of Software Programs

Adobe announced the release of several new software updates including Adobe Edge Reflow, Edge Animate, Dreamweaver and Edge Code. Note that all of these are only available on the Creative Cloud for Web Pros.

Kleverbeast Makes WordPress Authoring Easy

Nobody ever said building a good iOS app was easy and most non-programmer types simply don’t have the time or the patients to learn their way around Xcode, this is where Kleverbeast comes in.

Grab Media Announces the Release of GrabPress WordPress Plugin for Video Engagement

WordPress users now have instant access to over a half million free video clips with the new GrabPress Plugin.

Scranton Gillette Communications Introduces MediaPress Studios Web Development Affiliate

SGC has recognized a growing need among their clients to have a single resource for all their marketing needs, as such they have they have created a company that houses the editors and designers who are steeped in their clients' industries.

QUnit Announces the Release of Javascript Unit Tester

A new version of QUnit, the JavaScript unit testing framework, has been released by the jQuery Foundation and now includes a new runtime display for individual tests.

Stripe Announces the Releases of new jQuery Libraries

Stripe’s new jQuery online credit card forms are designed to make it easier for developers to build simple online credit card forms.

MagneticOne Announces CMS2CMS Migration Service Now Includes Automated WordPress

The new version of CMS2CMS Automated Migration Service has introduced several new updates which include much easier website migration tools for website content from CMS to WordPress.

Visual Frames Releases TraductoPro 1.1.3

Visual Frames has announced the release of their new TraductoPro v 1.1.3 a powerful and easy to use content translation application and localization tool designed for iOS and Mac apps.

Displaying Real Time Data using HTML5 and ASP.NET

Bipin Joshi provides the details around what HTML5 Server Sent Events are and how to develop a web form that relies on real-time data from the server.

ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification Standard Approved

ECMA publishes new standard ECMA-402 enabling JavaScript applications to speak the user’s language.

MagneticOne Announces CMS2CMS for WordPress Migration

MagneticOne announces the final release of their new version of CMS2CMS Automated Migration Service including a number of updates that greatly ease migrating website content from its current CMS to WordPress.

Ruby on Rails, Third Security Patch in Under a Month

Ruby on Rails framework developers have released an extremely critical remote code execution vulnerability patch for versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16.

Automattic Releases New WordPress for iOS Updates

Automattic pushed a big update for WordPress, including Push-Notifications, the ability to view, moderate, and reply to comments all from one screen.

HTML5 Provides Wii U with Expanding Third-Party Developers

Nintendo will showcase their efforts to promote HTML5 and increase the number of software developers at GDC 2013.

Authy Introduces Two-Factor Authentication For WordPress Blogs

In just a few seconds, you can protect your WordPress Blog site with ultra-secure two-factor authentication using Authy’s new plug-in.

The Host Group Announces Custom WordPress Website Design & Social Media Consulting Packages

International hosting provider, reseller and (VPS) specialist The Host Group announced late last week, a new arsenal of hosting and custom website design packages with expert social media consulting services.

WordPress Releases Version 3.5.1 Fixing 37 Bugs and 4 Vulnerabilities

Webmasters are advised to update ASAP providing patches for up to 37 bugs and four known security flaws.

Leftsnrights Announces LIQWID, the First Responsive HTML5 Ad Delivery Platform

LeftsnRights, Inc. announces the first fully HTML5 compatible advertising delivery platform.

WordPress Launches Vertical Portfolio Themes for Photo Bloggers

WordPress Ode to Picasso, the new vertical portfolio sites for artists, photographers, Graphic Designers, and Sketch Persons alike.

Austria to Host the jQuery Europe Conference

Bringing the world’s top JavaScript framework and jQuery speakers to Vienna for this year’s JavaScript conference along with a new focus on Smart TV, Responsive Web Design and Mobility.  

Minecraft Gets a JavaScript Facelift, aka ‘ScriptCraft’

Minecraft, it’s a kid’s game, it’s a senior developers inspiration, it’s here to stay and now it’s got JavaScript.

jQuery 1.9 Dropping Support for IE 8 and Below

Developers prepare….jQuery, the popular JavaScript framework will no longer support older versions of Internet Explorer with the release of jQuery 1.9, including the beta release of jQuery 2.0.

jQuery Foundation Launches new jQueary Plugin Registry

In an effort to make finding and using jQuery plugins the jQuery Foundation has launched a single jQuery JavaScript framework site.

Support Dynamo Announces the Release of a New Enhancements to Their WordPress Support Plugin

Support Dynamo has announced that they are releasing new features to the Support Dynamo designed to improve the experience customers have when using the WordPress base Support Ticket System.

WordPress.com Announces the Launch of Their New Portfolio Vertical

Created by Automattic and designed for Photographers, Painters, Designers and the like to provide them with the ability to showcase their creations on WordPress.com

Project6 Announces the Release of a New Case Study on Responsive Website Design

Project6 Design releases their newest case study on the launch of their new website created for the Musicians Institute College of Contemporary Music, the leading music school in Los Angeles for contemporary music education and created with user-focused, responsive web design.

Poster Announces the Release of Blog Editor v2 for Mobile WordPress Blog Editor

Poster 2 for WordPress.com and WordPress.org allows you to easily and quickly post to and manage your WordPress blogs.

Tizen Takes on Microsoft And RIM in the Mobile SmartPhone Market

Samsung's announced that later this year they will begin selling smartphones using their new Tizen SmartPhone operating system.

The Dutch Government Shuts Down Their Digital ID System Running on Rails

It was announced weeks ago that a major exploit had been revealed for all Ruby on Rails installs and now the effects of this vulnerability and the fact that software exploits have no borders are beginning to be felt internationally.

Javascript Hackathon, a JavaScript Library Build-Off

Set this year for February 2, DowncityJS is the 24-hour JavaScript Hackathon and taking place in Providence, RI.

Round Two for Ruby on Rails Patches

It is the second time this month that Ruby on Rails has released patches to a serious vulnerability flaw.

Chatwing Launches New Chat Widget in WordPress Community

Including Easier Editing Functions Chatwing's newest chat software saves more time and allows users to focus on their new chat experience.

UniteU Tech Announces Seamless WordPress Integration for eCommerce Websites

UniteU Technologies Inc. has announced the release of their new WordPress integration making it possible for ecommerce retailers to leverage the power and flexibility of the WordPress blogging platform.

Firefox 18 Launches on Schedule With New IonMonkey JavaScript Engine

Including  WebRTC And Retina Support, Mozilla has released the newest version of their FireFox browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

Ericsson Announces the Launch of a New Web Development Platform

Ericsson unveils Web Real Time Communications, a new web development platform that will allow any connected device to be turned into an always-open communications device.

Ruby on Rails Development Team Rushes to Plug the Publicly Disclosed SQL Injection Hole

New security update addresses recently discovered SQL injection flaw discovered last week.

Jetpack 2.1.1 Breaks WordPress 3.5

Disables some key functionality within WordPress including the ability to add new media.

Ruby on Rails get Another SQL Injection Vulnerability

All versions of Ruby on Rails are susceptible to a new SQL injection attack to the popular web framework.