Just this past week the folks at Bethesda released a Skyrim Creation Kit, one made to make developing strange modifications for the game as easy as pie. This week the team at Valve made full use of the kit to bring everyone's favorite Portal character to the medieval world of Skyrim - a robot, of course. This Space Core modification for Skyrim lands a lovely little personality core in your world and has you able to pick him up and kick him around like a football if you like.
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Android developers get their own official Google+ page
If you are an Android developer, you now have your own space on Google+ to visit and hang out with other developers. The Android development team now has a dedicated page on Google+ where they can meet, talk, share, and connect. Google hopes it will give the developers a place to meet and share ideas. I'm sure more than a few new developers will manage to make their way to the official page and to ask experienced developers questions.
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AT&T details Developer Program starts with API Platform
This week AT&T re-introduced themselves as a large proponent in the developer world for the mobile world, saying the apps that the developers create are the fundamental bits of the mobile experience. This developer program started all the way back in 1996, 16 years ago that is, much MUCH before the first "smart" phone. They began with their brand new API platform this week, this providing APIs, Tools, and Support to developers across the board, the development console powered by Apigee and the whole system based on HTML 5.
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Samsung Smart TV SDK 3.0 entices developers with paid apps
Samsung has announced that it will be releasing an update to its Smart TV SDK this Thursday, January 5. The update will be to version 3.0 and will bring new support for paid apps and in-app advertising. This will finally allow developers and publishers to make money from their Samsung Smart TV apps and could stimulate developer support.
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Developers: an Android 2011 Retrospective
When we look back at this year, we’ll think of it as the year of the birth of the dual-core mobile super chip, the double CPU processor becoming the status quo for a smartphone or tablet running Android, this the single most important thing to those who use the devices as tiny computers while the term “4G” dominates the memories of the masses, but it’s developers that mattered most. There’s no thinking about Android this year without recognizing that it’s still running alongside Apple’s iOS, the iPhone, and the iPad 2 as its primary competitors, and as its own user interface changes drastically, its competitors instead tweak functionality inside their already set-in-stone aesthetic. Then there’s the battles between manufacturers, carriers, and Android versions too, but none of this existed outside the underground of hackers, developers, and tweakers galore!
Arduino 1.0 release now available
Arduino 1.0 is finally out, after many years of revisions and changes to "clean up the Arduino environment and language, as well as adding lots of additional features." For those of you that need a refresher, the Arduino open-source software development platform lets you program microcontrollers that're essentially the backbone behind insanely cool DIY projects that have been released in the last few years. This is great news for the open-source DIY electronics hacker community, marking the offical release of the Arduino software.
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Internet Explorer 10 platform preview 4 released
Microsoft has released its fourth platform preview for Internet Explorer 10, making it available today to those with a developer preview of Windows 8. IE10 integrates Microsoft's new Metro UI while maintaining the option for the traditional desktop interface. This latest test build adds more HTML5 support.
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Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.7.3 with iCloud focus to developers
Apple began seeding Mac OS X 10.7.3 to developers today. This latest update is the company's third maintenance update for Mac OS X Lion, which was launched back in July. Version 10.7.3 mainly focuses on new improvements for iCloud document storage as well as the AddressBook, iCal, and Mail.
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Developers crack Siri open to work on any device
Developers at Applidium claim that they have cracked open Apple's Siri intelligent voice-controlled assistant feature to work on any device. Siri is restricted to the iPhone 4S, but has been hacked to work to some degree on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. And now, Applidium says that it has managed to crack Siri open to be inserted into apps on other platform such as Android.
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iTunes Match library reset signals imminent launch
Apple's long promised iTunes Match feature may finally be nearing launch after the company missed its end of October deadline. Developers received notice today that Apple will be resetting and erasing their iCloud libraries on November 12 at 10AM PST so that the company can prepare for the launch of iTunes Match, although it did not specify when the service would publicly debut.
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HTCdev Speaks: Compelling Coders, Fragmentation, More
The barrier to Android development is already low, but concentrating your efforts with one particular manufacturer can pay dividends. That’s the message from HTCdev, HTC’s “built by developers, for developers” outreach program launched this year. SlashGear caught up with Bruce Jones and Leigh Momii from HTCdev at Droidcon UK last week, the developer evangelism team’s biggest public outing to date, to find out why independently cultivating coders could well be HTC’s best strategy to stay relevant in Android.
Dart programming language for web programming unveiled
The fine folks over at the Chromium Blog have chosen to pull the covers off an entirely new programming language called Dart. The goal is to make Dart a new programming language specifically for designing web content. The Dart language is being shown off on the Chromium Blog as an early preview. Dart is described with three main goals. The first is to be a flexible, but structured language.
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