The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has signed a deal with Microsoft to award one entrant to the event a massive boost on both the Xbox LIVE Arcade and Windows Phone platforms....

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Sencha Touch is a free mobile JavaScript framework that lets web developers build sophisticated touch friendly sites for mobile devices with HTML5 compliant web browsers (Android, iPhone and more). In Podcast 52, I spoke with Sencha CEO Michael Mullany about developing mobile web apps using Sencha Touch. We also discussed his thoughts about Windows 8 tablets and the Internet Explorer 10 browser. Mr. Mullany offered interesting insight into issues in developing web-based apps for Android, jQuery [...]

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More and more companies are starting to realize that managing business processes using spreadsheets is a cumbersome and inefficient way of solving problems. However, hiring a software developer to create an application from scratch that replaces the spreadsheets can be costly and time consuming. RapidBiz is a tool that eliminates the time and cost associated [...]

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The challenge for mobile application developers is being able to make their apps available for a multitude of platforms, each of which have different development environments that require writing separate applications. A small developer may have to choose to only write their app for only one platform because that is all they can afford to support, or at the very least pick one first and then develop for other platforms later. PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows developers to write apps [...]

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