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News about Development tools

• Mozilla offers app to create Web pages on smartphones

  It's for Android devices and available currently in four languages: Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, English and Indonesian

• GitHub launches desktop client to lure more developers

  The GitHib desktop can branch copies of a software project and then merge user changes back into the project

• Digium helps mobile apps communicate better with new SDKs

  Developers no longer need to be signaling experts to add in-app communications features

• Microsoft offers Windows developers a bridge to Apple iOS

  The WinObjC library provides a way to port Apple iOS applications to Windows, and to write iOS apps with Visual Studio

• How Facebook made mobile site faster for users with limited bandwidth

  Facebook engineers rose to the challenge of shrinking profile cover photos to 200 bytes

• Salesforce tools let customers snap together new mobile apps

  Modular components can be snapped together using a drag-and-drop interface

Features about Development tools

• 15 technologies changing how developers work

  They're changing how we work with fellow developers, how we interact with our customers, and how we code

• 15 hot programming trends - and 15 going cold

  What's hot - and what's not - among today's programmers.

• Why developers are turning to API services

  As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up

• The rise of Cloud-based IDEs

  Development tools in the cloud enable programming from anywhere, but they're not suited for all app dev needs

• Making games of enterprise software

  Gamification is an emerging technique of using gaming techniques to better engage software users