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In Pictures: 10 Cloud development tools to set you free

These cool Web-based development tools bring coding to the browser

In Pictures: 10 Cloud development tools to set you free

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

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