Windows components player Syncfusion has released Metro Studio 2, a free-to-members utility that contains more than 1,700 vector-based customizable Metro icons. NOTE: Originally released in May of 2012, Metro Studio 2 is a collection of customizable Metro-style icon templates. To date, it has been downloaded over 22,000 times. All the […]
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Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform that provides over 100,000 merchants globally with a high degree of flexibility and control over the user experience, content and functionality of their online store. Magento Enterprise, the company’s premiere solution, enables mid- to large-sized merchants to build and run fully functional online stores. […]
Software component vendor Text Control has released the X8 version of its word processing component family TX Text Control. Text Control says that using its developer tools, documents can be created, edited, converted, and printed. So now, TX Text Control X8 introduces a new z-order of objects (text frames, images, […]
Like many developers my age, I like to keep both my mind and body as fit as possible. However, after sitting all day coding, there’s not as much time as I’d like to spend on exercise. That may change with the introduction of LifeSpan’s Treadmill Desk. Now you can multi-task […]
Microsoft says product development and testing are complete and the company has officially started handing off the final code to OEM partners. But what does this mean for software application developers getting ready to start programming for Microsoft’s “Metro” user interface? After an initial period of “invitation only” for developers […]
jqMobi has announced enhancements to its jQuery-compatible mobile app development framework. Now in beta version 1.1, jqMobi is described as the first open source JavaScript framework developed solely for use on mobile devices. It is aligned for both iOS and Android devices. The new appStarter feature has been included to […]
This tutorial series will run for five consecutive weeks. In this installment, Go expert Mark Summerfield explains how to set up Go, and then he provides two examples of Go programs that are explained in depth. The programs provide a partial overview of Go’s key features and some of its […]
Microsoft has launched a new Windows Phone development center in a bid to woo developers a little closer to its oft-maligned mobile platform. This new portal is an evolution of the old App Hub, which previously was the focal point for this technology support. The new presentation is clean enough […]
Last week, I said that one of Barbara’s challenges in rewriting the C++ Primer was to find useful programming examples to illustrate language features that C++11 had made easier to use. I think copy constructors are a particularly interesting case. A useful example of a language feature should give the […]