January 22nd, 2013

Voxel Farm Is Demoing A Photorealistic Clone Of Minecraft That Looks Absolutely Amazing

Voxel Farm is a game framework for sale to developers who want to create cool, photorealistic environments. But the demo, called Procedural World, is a Minecraft clone that I would pay big bucks for if it were available for sale. → Read More

October 16th, 2012

Famo.us Reveals More Details About Its HTML5 Turbo-Charger

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Last month as part of our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Coverage, we wrote about Famo.us, the company behind a forthcoming HTML5 framework that its developers claim will make it easier to build HTML5 apps that perform as well as native apps. Now the company is revealing more information about how it works and what it can be used for. → Read More

July 30th, 2012

Microsoft Open Sources Entity Framework

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Microsoft continues to make in-roads into open source development. Early last year it open sourced several development related tools, including NuGet and several libraries for its ASP.Net language. And by the end of the year the company announced sponsorship of projects to port both the Node.js development platform and the big data analytics tool Apache Hadoop to Windows. It’s even making Linux→ Read More

July 27th, 2012

Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town

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Although the company behind Meteor, a framework for building real-time JavaScript applications in vein of Google Docs, just announced a nice big $11.2 million round of funding, it’s not the only game in town. In my story earlier this week I mentioned Mojito, a framework developed by Yahoo. But there’s still another framework that has escaped my attention, even though it’s around longer than… → Read More