Broken promises of HTML5

Chris Heilmann (Principal Developer Evangelist of the Mozilla Developer Network) recently talked at HTML5DevCon San Francisco on HTML5 and the state of the web right now. This is the video of his 1-hour talk: I’d say it is spot on. Overselling and overbuying the state of HTML5 technology – by people either too ignorant to […]

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The rise of the creative class

Tim Stutts from PushPopDesign wrote a very apt post titled “Who works with creative coders?“, analyzing the responsibilities of what’s assumed to be creative coders and listing a bunch of (great) companies in the process. Choice quote: The world is also no longer flat, but fully 3D, immersive, augmented, to the point where traditional design […]

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So, TypeScript

Microsoft has just unveiled TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like language that compiles to regular JavaScript. It adds a lot of syntactical features to the platform, many of them coming from the ECMAScript 6 (“Harmony”) proposals. It has the pedigree to be great – as Mark Rendle wrote: It’s been known for some time that Anders Hejlsberg […]

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Ludum Dare 24 starts today

Developers: Ludum Dare, the 48-hour videogame development competition, starts today at 9PM EST when the theme for this weekend-long game hackathon is announced. I will be taking part of this fun contest for the first time, streaming the development process live at a Twitch.TV channel. I’ve wrote a few posts about what I plan on […]

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