AT&T joins OpenStack as it launches cloud for developers. At AT&T's Developer Summit in Las Vegas, company CTO John Donovan announced that the company had officially become a contributor to OpenStack, the open-source cloud architecture project that emerged from efforts by NASA and hosting company RackSpace.
5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code. In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode.
As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line of code. There is nothing worse than building a tool no one is interested in, so I'd encourage you to consider these options before starting down the path of building your next startup. Specifically, these five tools can help you do three critical activities before starting to write a line of code: create a wireframe, get feedback from the target market and test value proposition through multiple landing pages.
8 Things You Should Know Before Building a Mobile App. Seth Porges is a magazine editor and the creator of Cloth, an iOS fashion app for iPhone and iPod Touch.
His Twitter handle is @sethporges. App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? Teach Yourself to Program. Compete Against Other Players Learning To Code With Treehouse’s Code Race. As part of the ongoing trend of coding literacy among a more mainstream audience, Treehouse, a startup that teaches people how to program online has developed Code Racer, a game that teaches people how to code by pitting them up against other people also learning how to code, building, appropriately enough, some kind of race car related website.
To start Code Racer either move straight into “Play” or watch a video tutorial with the basics beforehand. Users can play up to four opponents, and can toggle the “Help” button whenever an exercise gets too hard for them. The objective is to be fast, “It’s the game mechanic that makes the game fun,” says Treehouse co-founder Ryan Carson, “You’ll get beat quite a few times as a newbie, but you’ll learn the code along the way.”
And yes, you can mute the horrible music by pressing the “Mute music” button at the top of the game. The Treehouse crew built Code Racer in three days and documented the entire process on Vimeo (below). You Don't Need A College Degree to Be a Great Coder. Okay, so we all know that both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg never finished their Harvard degrees, and look where they are now.
But for the rest of us who just aspire to have a full time job, let alone an equity share in a hot startup, is a college degree really necessary to code? Maybe not, according to this blog post from Good Technology. Erin Biba, who wrote the post back in November, asks: "Programming isn't accounting. It requires creative thinkers and problem solvers, people unlikely to thrive in the confines of a college classroom. So why do hiring managers apply traditional methods to a nontraditional job? " Exactly. The stories about the perks at Google and Facebook are now the stuff of urban legend. 6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition. Paul Baldwin is the chief marketing officer of Outfit7 Inc., a subsidiary of Out Fit 7 Ltd, the leading entertainment app developer.
Paul has more than 17 years of experience developing, marketing and monetizing digital entertainment content. Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android and Apple app stores and it's easy to see the fierce competition for user attention. The number of apps has grown to more than 1 million, each vying for downloads and market share. The app development world is still very top-heavy, with a very small percentage of developers controlling the majority of downloads and revenue. But that in no way means that a newcomer can't build a successful app that captures the hearts and minds of consumers, and becomes the next big thing.
Since the app stores themselves control which apps are elevated and highlighted, how can you ensure your app gets time in the spotlight and the attention it deserves? Teaching Ventures Catch the Programming Wave. CodeNow: Teaching Programming, Narrowing the Digital Divide. If you read my recent story "Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code," you'll know that I believe strongly in (at least) two things related to ed-tech: we have to talk seriously about "what works" -- you know, actual teaching and learning -- and we have to talk seriously about what works "for whom.
" This is particularly true when it comes to teaching programming. The stakes are high, as it's clear that technology will increasingly drive our culture, our schools, our work, our scientific discovery, our innovations and so on. We need to make sure everyone -- and really I do mean everyone -- has the requisite skills so that that future isn't a "black box," intimidating and inaccessible. Ryan Seashore, the founder of CodeNow has heard me rant about all of this before.
APIs. Programming Languages. Web Developing.