Programming News & Articles

While Google (news, site) has been aggressively marketing services such as Google+, a little-known program called App Inventor that lets users build Android applications without requiring hardcore programming knowledge has stayed under the radar. Now Google is decommissioning App Inventor, and will instead release it as open source software.

Early last month Google tossed its latest creation into the shark pool: A new programming language called Go. To the surprise of exactly no one, the experimental project has survived its first month without scathe or scar. Could this mean it’s once again time for Microsoft to batten down the hatches?

TYPO3 Extension Development by Dmitry Dulepov, a TYPO3 core developer, is a recent book from Packt Publishing. It is aimed towards those looking to get their hands dirty with — unsurprisingly — TYPO3 extension development.

The book takes its readers from the beginning process of planning a TYPO3 extension to writing the documentation that will allow others to better understand the developer’s hard work. The book won’t make anyone an award-winning TYPO3 extension developer overnight, but it can help provide a solid foundation to build upon.

Ever feel like you could use some validation in life? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s popular Markup Validator service won’t quite do that for you, but it will help keep your website running efficiently on different browsers, which is almost as important.

The Markup Validator recently received a facelift in the form of a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance.