Can't wait to find out about the awesome education apps made this week in Philadelphia?

Now you can with services like Stackmob and other "backend as a service" APIs that enable you to focus on app design and your business as opposed to the development of the app. For most of us, a prototype app will do while we dig deeper into the viablilty of our startup/business. 

Have you heard of the new Leap Motion devices? No? OMG YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT! Forget your Playstation Move, Wii and Xbox Kinect devices, these new Leap Motion sensors will blow your mind with what they are capable of.... 

Interested in learning to code? There is no better way then to just jump right in and trying a Google Code Jam Challenge for yourself. There are excellent online resources like http://www.udacity.com/ and http://www.udemy.com/ that can help get you started. For those of you with kids, it might just be easier to have them teach you. Just kidding. Well, not really, but you get the idea. Alternatively, see if you can find a progamming buddy via meetup.com as you can learn faster by watching. 

Can't wait to find out what awesome applications were made in Dallas?

Can't wait to find out what awesome applications were made in Miami?

If you've ever tried programming PIC microcontrollers or worked with breadboards, you know how much of a pain creating your own hardware can be. Getting your kids into hardware development can be even more of a challenge especially if there is a certain level of finesse required to handle the equipment. With ARM's mbed microcontroller board, your development just got a whole lot easier and if you are a C/C++ developer from your old days, you can get this new breed of all-in-one microcontrollers up and running in no time at all.

On July 11, Apigee announced that Usergrid was now publicly available.  Usergrid is a company Apigee had acquired earlier this year—and the great news is that it is now fully available for developers...

If you're an app developer, make sure to check out this recent IDC survey that says enterprises are looking for YOU! As a full stack developer, remember that your skills are sought not only in the small consulting shops, but also in the large enterprise corporations.

Back in October, Microsoft’s Daniel Egan presented an informative session that went into detail about Windows Phone Mango development, “Windows Phone Deep Dive: Live Tiles, Background Agents, and Augmented Reality Using the Motion API”.

The webcast has been archived, and is available for members to watch on the AT&T Developer Platform website.

The concept of "lean startups" is a current trending hot topic of discussion amongst the entrepreneurial circles. But did you know that their methodologies can be extended into Fortune 500 companies?

Interested in creating your own app or need help getting connected to the right resources? This article is the first in a series that are crafted to help guide developers through the maze of new technologies that flooding the mobile application development community. APIs are all the rage with services such as Pusher.com, pubnub.com, buddy.com, stackmob.com and parse.com leading the way. If you haven't heard of these companies, this article is for you!

Here's a quick recap of the Chicago hackathon that occurred on August 27th, 2011.

When building an application, it’s important to consider the user interaction elements of your design prior to starting development. Today, UX/UI is becoming an increasingly popular field as more and more developers are starting to understand the importance of good design through better understanding user experience and interaction with the application.

Nothing chases away users (or invites bad reviews!) like an app that is slow or drains battery life too quickly. New research from AT&T and University of Michigan offers insight into how applications can be modified to prevent these issues from occurring. Historically, wireless optimization best practices have focused on how to optimize content for smaller screens and slower processors. In this article, the researchers describe how mobile wireless networks are different than wired networks, and how simple changes to your app can work WITH the network to improve your application’s efficiency.