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An increasing number of first-time mobile app developers are also first-time developers. This makes sense if you think about it; mobile is the hot new platform and the barrier to entry is a lot lower for mobile devices.

"What can I do to become a developer?" The question has puzzled many and often yields a list of books (that no one other than the poster has/will read), list of websites (that are WAY too advanced), and a battle over languages and definitions. Very pointless. I'll relay to you my journey and what I've learned.

The 960 Grid systems are the way to develop a faster websites. At the mean time, developing websites should support mobile browsers while mobile usage is increasing. So, supporting all screen sizes called: Responsive web.

n this collection, we are showcasing 16 most useful and responsive CSS frameworks that will help the developers to create responsive websites. In this day and age, responsive web designs are getting popular day by day because they are interactive and look good as well. Furthermore, as developers now have more tools and resources, thus creating responsive website designs is no more a difficult task.

Six Revisions is a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers. We seek to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate.

First and most important is to build your knowledge and information-gathering from the official sites that reflect their namesakes.

Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their Android applications on Android devices. This could be a lightweight message telling the Android application that there is new data to be fetched from the server (for instance, a movie uploaded by a friend), or it could be a message containing up to 4kb of payload data (so apps like instant messaging can consume the message directly).

This is the first chapter from our new monthly 'What's new in web design' series. We will include new web apps, JavaScript and jQuery tools, CSS Frameworks and whatever else we think would be good and helpful for you as a web designer or developer. Most of the resources are free or at very low cost, and in the end you will benefit from the latest web tools.

This document is the starting point for creating iOS apps. It describes the fundamental architecture of iOS apps, including how the code you write fits together with the code provided by iOS. This document also offers practical guidance to help you make better choices during your design and planning phase and guides you to the other documents in the iOS developer library that contain more detailed information about how to address a specific task.

The web is a rapidly evolving universe. An important part of our job as front-end developers is keeping up to date and staying close to new tools, trends and workflows. Hundreds of blog posts and articles are published every day, but there is no way you can read all of them. We think you should have a strategy to keep up to date, so we have created this recipe.

How will "What You See is What You Get" work when what you get, changes depending on how you choose to see it? Three years ago, the concept of responsive layout was simply an exciting new design option. Now into the mainstream, it's throwing up more than a few problems for us web developers. With mobile and tablet usage on the rise, and the likes of Microsoft and Guardian redesigning their sites to reach this growing market, it's not surprising that responsive design is now a high priority for clients.

As browser capabilities continue to grow the websites that we are building are getting ever more complex. Fancy JavaScript UIs are great for showing off the latest technologies but they can cause a real problem for assistive technologies like screen readers. Unfortunately accessibility is one of those topics that often gets overlooked by a lot of developers. This makes me a little sad. If we want the web to remain a place that can be enjoyed by everyone, we need to be considering our users at both ends of the spectrum. In this article my aim is to show you just how easy it is to make your websites accessible.

Web developers resource center. Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, HTML5, news, tutorials, code examples and snippets, articles and more.

EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system. Git is a distributed SCM, which means every developer has a full copy of all history of every revision of the code, making queries against the history very fast and versatile.

Nogotofail is a network security testing tool designed to help developers and security researchers spot and fix weak TLS/SSL connections and sensitive cleartext traffic on devices and applications in a flexible, scalable, powerful way. It includes testing for common SSL certificate verification issues, HTTPS and TLS/SSL library bugs, SSL and STARTTLS stripping issues, cleartext issues, and more.

Tim Bray: Does the browser have a future?

After listening to the speech, the title of it sounds more like a warning rather than a prediction. Personally, I don't think the browser is going anywhere any time soon. As far as HTML5, I think it's going to be huge. Anxiously awaiting Ubuntu on tablets http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet/app-ecosystem and phones http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/app-ecosystem. Just think, with native HTML5 APIs, any web developer with some minor skill adjustment can develop native phone and tablet apps.