By Tejas Jasani Games are likely the most lucrative segment in mobile apps. However, making money on a mobile game app isn’t easy. However, if you know how to engage your user for a longer period of time, many of them will pay you not once or twice but potentially many times over the course […]
Will Oculus VR and Amazon Fire TV Change Web App Development?
By Andy Parker Facebook’s recent purchase of Oculus VR and the launch of Amazon Fire TV may be the start of an interesting change within the mobile app development industry. How so? Well, the days of developers who focus purely on ‘mobile apps’ may become a thing of the past! This article takes a brief […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 31, 2014
Lots of interesting new projects this week! Avow-CI is a continuous integration server specifically designed for JavaScript projects built on Node.js and MongoDB. Avow-CI Shower is an HTML presentation engine with a simple, clean look and feel that can be easily exported to PDF. shower Mochi is a new touch-focused UI library for the Enyo […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 31, 2014
There were a lot of great articles and tutorials this week. Some of my personal favorites are Ryan Morr discussing why browser detection is a bad idea but also unavoidable, Adam Schwartz’s free CSS book called The Magic of CSS and the JavaScript OCR demo. Tutorials Ryan Morr discusses the history of browser detection, why […]
Improving Browser Detection
By Ryan Morr Despite the progress client-side scripting has made over the last decade or so, it seems that some bad practices are poised to never die. With the medium transitioning into a more mobile-centric world in recent years, an influx in bugs has many developers turning back to browser detection for a solution. History […]
Lessons Learned Building an HTML5 Games Engine
By Craig Robinson Last year we had the opportunity to create a series of five mahjong link games (a variation on the standard) in HTML5 for Spil Games. The first game we built was Dream Pet Link. Given that we were tasked with building four additional games with the same mechanic but different themes, we […]
The Basics of Express Routes
By Dhananjay Kumar Recently I started learning how to build web applications using Node.js and the popular Express framework. In doing so, I realized that one of the most vital concepts in Express is routes. In this article I will share the basics of understanding routes in Express. If you are just starting with Express […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 24, 2014
The big news this week both came from Microsoft with the open sourcing of WinJS and TypeScript reaching 1.0. WinJS is a set of open-source JavaScript toolkits from Microsoft containing sets of UI controls and components. WinJS TypeScript 1.0 is available as part of Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Web Express 2013 Spring Update, […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 24, 2014
This was a busy week. My post about being paralyzed by choice in front-end development seems to really have struck a nerve. One of the suggestions was to use round ups like this one to help filter out the noise. The goal of these posts is to, hopefully, make it easy to scan and find […]
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