Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The best place to start a career as a software engineer is in the web development space.

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

The open source SproutCore framework— which Apple invested in to create its suite of MobileMe apps— has been cross-pollinating with HTML5 features to develop in new directions, including a new ...

Web publishing -- the development and maintenance of websites -- has become a key issue for any business that wants to remain competitive. Developing a Web page involves designing and implementing the ...

Apple's newly minted Xcode 4 integrated development tool reflects a strong investment in building software designed to create new software, particularly for the iPhone and iPad. Developers say it ...

With HTML5 what we did is we took the Web technologies of the past, that were there for putting documents on the Web, and enhanced them for real application development—with offline functionalities, ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft’s recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

While Android and iOS top the charts in the mobile app-building business, other native application-building operating systems like Blackberry, Windows and others are also making stringent efforts get ...

HTML5 is still evolving, but in the current mobile landscape, proponents are finding ways around its limitations. 2012 wasn’t a great year for HTML5. If it were a football team, the markup language ...