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“Shall We Make a Game?” This is the first in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game. We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way. The game is based on the XNA sample game “Catapult Wars Lab”. We’ll reuse […]

The commercial grade Engine Yard Cloud has been a configurable PaaS solution for Ruby on Rails and PHP, and now includes Node.js, the JavaScript “language of the browser” created to merge development of front-end and server-side architectures. Engine Yard explains that typical use cases for Node.js include real-time applications that require constant feedback and input. […]

Mydigipass, a token based authentication solution which allows a user to login once and have that authentication traverse multiple web pages and applications. With a single sign-in, user logging into the web portal either directly on the Mydigipass website, or via a portal from an approved website via the Mydigipass button, entering a user name, […]

Bundled with the new ASP.NET MVC 4 offering is the open-source ASP.NET Web API designed to streamline the development and deployment of RESTful services. Unlike WCF REST or ASP.NET AJAX with ASMX, ASP.NET Web API is a new platform versus simply being a bolt-on technology that is would be intended to work in the context […]

In addition to the release of Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft will soon bring support for mobile platforms which will include Windows Phone, iOS and Android. The new Windows Azure Mobile Services platform provides developers with the ability to store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send out push notifications to agents. Microsoft’s new […]

By Konstantin Kichinsky   Our journey to the world of shadows continues. If you missed the article, we explored the basics of using the box-shadow property. Today we are going to focus on the text-shadow. Just to remind you: both properties meanwhile are defined in different modules actually work in a similar way. So if […]

Fujitsu plans to steadily roll out the new application server worldwide, while also offering it through the company’s FGCP/S5 public cloud service and FGCP/A5 Powered by Windows Azure. Interstage Application Server V11 incorporates the latest jQuery Mobile 1.1.1(1) development framework for smart devices, thereby making it easy to develop user-friendly applications for smartphones and tablet […]

Google knows that JavaScript performance is critical for web browsers due to the increase in number of smartphones and tablets that use JavaScript formatting and navigation. For years they have openly touted their Chrome browser performance is based on JavaScript benchmarks and for a more usable method to measure JavaScript performance, Google created Octane, a […]

The benefits are beginning to mount up. Developers can now develop apps in a variety of programing languages, bringing a larger and more robust development community to the ecosystem. Developers can now development their Modern UI apps using HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript. If you have developed .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, […]

Microsoft is been working diligently to unify development of games for their major operating systems including Windows, Xbox and Windows Phone. Unity Technologies has announced they will support the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms moving forward thus providing gaming developers with a means to effortlessly bring their development work to many different OS’s. […]

To date, Microsoft is genuinely very excited as a team by their businesses and partner’s innovation and creativity scheduled to make it to market this October. Microsoft’s engineering and collaboration with their partners has been ground breaking. They have jumped major hurtles in the areas of performance, reliability, battery life and design features in order […]

Engine Yard, a provider of a multi-language platform as a service (PaaS) solutions announced the general availability of Node.js support on their Engine Yard Cloud PaaS. Engine Yard Cloud is a commercial grade, highly configurable PaaS tool for developing in Ruby on Rails, PHP, and now Node.js. Yard Cloud is fully optimized for building applications […]