In the world of comic book heroes, it’s easy to see the appeal of heroes combining their powers to make a difference, such as The Avengers. In the less super-powered world of programming development, ...

JavaScript applications have been seeping onto the Windows desktop for years. Originally designed for the Web, JavaScript — ...

One session at last week's WWDC featured featured a JavaScript application framework called SproutCore, which has generated quite a bit of buzz since then. The framework was used by Apple to develop ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript. Initially, the concept of executing JavaScript within a Universal Windows Platform ...

Editor’s note: Spike Brehm, the author of this post, is just one of the amazing hackers we’ve got speaking at DevBeat 2013, our first-ever developer conference taking place next week, Nov. 12-13 in ...

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

A new open source tool dubbed Quark promises rapid creation of desktop applications with native capabilities while leveraging web development technologies. Built on top of GitHub’s Electron framework ...

JavaScript, by being the language supported in all mainstream browsers, has been key to the development of browser-based web apps, garnering attention from multitudes of developers while being fitted ...

We all remember the litany from various math classes we’ve taken, where frustration at a failure to understand a difficult concept bubbles over into the classic, “When am I ever going to need to know ...

Those were the days: Have you ever found yourself missing the old Macintosh days? There's an app for that, and it comes from the most unlikely source---Slack. Well, at least from one of its creators.