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After running into production issues which involved App Store regulations, Pieceable created an online interface which allows developers to demo their iOS apps before they are actually released–using a web browser. Although the Pieceable IDE is still in private beta, the Pieceable Viewer is currently available for developers to preview their apps, or even develop […]

If you haven’t upgraded to Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 yet, you are falling quickly behind–this week Microsoft announced the first platform preview of IE 10. The latest iteration of Internet Explorer features extensive support for HTML5 and CSS3 and is available for download today. The Redmond company went on to take jabs at the Chrome […]

IBM this week announced Maqetta, along with the open source contribution of the Maqetta HTML5 visual authoring tool to the Dojo Foundation. Maqetta itself is an open source project which adds WYSIWYG functionality to HTML5 user interfaces. Created from HTML5 itself, Maqetta runs in the web browser, and does not require any plug-ins or additional […]

Could the use of JavaScript frameworks such as node.js spell the end of LAMP for developers? One developer believes that it does, and recently posted about the future of Web Application architectures.  The CTO at Metamarket, Mike Driscoll, argues his point well, stating that “LAMP architectures are dead because few web applications want to ship […]

With Microsoft’s March release of Internet Explorer 9, developers and end users had something to celebrate. IE9 opens the doors to complex multimedia applications built using one of the core building blocks of the web, HTML5.  By using HTML5, developers are able to create applications that run inside the web browser, even though they may […]

If you have worked to get your search engine rankings higher and have considered a website redesign, be sure to carry your SEO practices over to your site as it goes through the redesign. If you don’t, you could lose the search engine ranking you have worked so hard to achieve. Many businesses have worked […]

The mobile industry is growing beyond leaps and bounds, but its growth has been hindered by fragmented protocols, unstandard standards and a lack of a common core language. Enter HTML5, and you have the potential for an open, democratic, homogenous mobile web.  Some believers in the HTML5 “movement” anticipate the demise of native apps in […]

While the new tags introduced by HTML5 are very useful for enabling the use of new features, including tags for sections, articles, asides, headers and footers, they can also make a developer’s work more difficult to style using CSS. By using the CSS “any” selector, a developer’s life can once again be easier.  The -any() […]

Recent hack attacks used illegally obtained security certificates to create websites which then appeared to be legitimate and secure. Google Certificate Catalog is an online database of valid security certificates, something the search engine giant believes will keep hacks like this from occuring.  Google Certificate Catalog is updated as often as its search engine–in fact […]

There are many justifications made about why a company is not using social media in conjunction with their website or application. The bottom line is that if you are not using social media, you are missing out on a potentially powerful SEO tool.  By using social media, you open a channel for personal, individual communication […]

In an effort to clarify its position and calm developers, Microsoft posted a very well crafted blog post which details its position on the discussion of using Silverlight versus HTML5.  The debate stems from an announcement that Microsoft previously released which said that HTML5 was the way to go, and Silverlight was to be used […]

A report from DVLabs states that hackers are using prepackaged exploits to attack sites simultaneously, and the content management systems (CMS) on many sites have not been updated to protect them from such attacks.  Not surprisingly, almost half of the known software vulnerabilities today are in web apps. That hasn’t changed for about 5 years, […]