Ludum Dare, the 48-hour game development compo, will take place in the week of December 14th-17th. The theme suggestion round has just opened; you can suggest one here.

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 […]

Internet Explorer 10 will be available as a preview release for Windows 7 in mid-November, and then as a stable release for the general public… at, uh, some point later. As we approach general availability of Windows 8, we want to provide an update on IE10 for Windows 7. We will release a preview of […]

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Via Pablo Marques, here’s a inspiring video: Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek (one of my favorite persons ever, half of the old but hilarious Old Man Murray website) on How to give yourself a job in the games industry: Despite the title, the video is not just about the game industry – in a nutshell, it’s […]

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 […]

In some ways, I was never a very good student. When I was around 12 years old, one of the biggest problems I had in school was that I would always forget when home work was due, or days we had tests. I remember I’d arrive at school and my friends would ask me if […]

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 […]

Git. The trendy source control management system. Like many other of my peers, I’ve been using GitHub for a while (for personal projects, in my case). For the longest time, however, I felt like the only person in the world that didn’t get it; it never felt natural for me, or superior in any way […]