Developing and publishing a mobile game is pretty easy. Unfortunately, it may even be pretty expensive. When you find mobile games development to be too costly, Facebook has an exquisite tempting offer. At the Casual Connect conference today, Facebook can be announcing a brand new program in order to see the social network publishing mobile games in return for a cut of the revenue. It’s called Mobile Games Publishing and Facebook says that it’s “a new pilot program to aid small and medium-sized developers take their game global.” Here’s what Facebook says it has to supply developers that register with its program: Find the proper people With our unique targeting ability and mobile users who like playing a diversity of games, we’ll help the best people discover your game. Grow to scale Let us introduce your game to our greater than 800M monthly mobile users. We’ll permit you to drive installs at scale with Facebook’s massive reach. Build lasting success We’ll also share analytics tools... Read More »

[ Developer] The C programming language family is a few of the most well-liked on this planet. Just taking a look at the TIOBE Index, we see that C, Objective-C, C++ and C# are all within the top five with their rankings not changing in over a year. Those that look deeper into these items predict that C’s time within the spotlight can be coming to an end, however, because of some rising stars. Andrew Binstock over at Dr. Dobb’s recently penned a blog post that argues the dominance of C might be threatened inside the coming years. Through numerous programming language indexes, including the TIOBE Index, he points out languages meant to exchange C and C++ had been at the rise during the last year. For starters, D, a language meant to interchange C++, climbed to the 18th spot at the TIOBE Index over the past year. It all started inside the 35th spot in January of 2013. Binstock speculates that D’s rise within... Read More »

Diffbot announced today that it’s relasing a brand new API that uses robots to realize and extract data from e-commerce sites. The robotics company, which uses vision, machine learning and synthetic intelligence to research and extract data from web content, appeared on the Bing-sponsored LAUNCH event last year, where it laid out is plans to make the whole web machine-readable. More on that here. The new API uses computer vision to show any e-commerce site right into a product database, the corporate says in an email. “Software developers can use the API to extract various data from the page include product image, SKU code, price, shipping cost, discount price, MSRP, etc.,” a spokesperson for diffbot tells WebProNews. “The API can identify and structure information in spite of a site’s design, layout, markup or language.” Additionally, diffbot has developed a spider technology, that can analyze a whole site, skipping non-product pages, and extracting just the info from relevant page types. “Think about Target.com, or Wal-Mart.com, and... Read More »

[ Developer] While many are enjoying their fresh Xbox One with all its bells and whistles, some are having mixed feelings about their faulty gifts and Microsoft’s solution. In the past week it has become extremely clear that an excellent share of Xbox One owners aren’t having the thrill time they were expecting. Microsoft have been scrambling to resolve the disc drive issues along side other hardware errors that their consumers are having and are sending out new consoles and free games to their Advanced Exchange Policy holders. They’ve been giving their customers many avenues to deal with their defect issues, however some are being met with a road block while others can’t be more satisfied with their solution. Even though some customers gets their collection of either Dead Rising 3, Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son of Rome, or Zoo Tycoon while looking forward to their new system, customers are complaining concerning the $500 deposit they need to give for the power to play one... Read More »

For a long time now, developers were ready to test drive the newest Visual Studio as portion of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Like all good preview, Microsoft was constantly improving it as developers give them feedback, including some enhancements to ASP.NET. Microsoft recently announced that it was bringing a considerable number of ASP.NET and Web Tools enhancements to its Visual Studio 2013 Preview. The enhancements include a brand new UI, new authentications and updates for MVC 5 and SignalR. To commence, Microsoft notes that it’s added a “simple UI for creating projects that provide support for multiple ASP.NET frameworks.” Developers would be capable of use different authentication configurations, including individual user accounts, organizational accounts and Windows authentication. They note that each one configurations work the identical across all ASP.NET frameworks. Speaking of authentication, ASP.NET authentication is now according to the OWIN middleware. It’s portion of what Microsoft calls Project Katana – an effort at the a part of Microsoft to make ASP.NET more flexible... Read More »