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• Blend4Web: the Open Source Solution for Online 3D

  Half year ago Blend4Web was first released publicly. In this article I’ll show what Blend4Web is, how it is evolved and and how it can be used for web development. What Is Blend4Web? In short, Blend4Web is an open source framework for creating 3D web applications. It uses Blender – ...

  Posted October 7, 2014 by Yuri Kovelenov

• The Missing SDK For Hybrid App Development

  Hybrid vs. native: The debate has gone on, and will go on, for ages. Each form of app development has its pros and cons, and an examination of the key differences between the two methods reveals that a flat correlation is like comparing apples to oranges. Many hybrid app developers ...

  Posted October 1, 2014 by Adam Bradley

• Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick

  The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device. Background Matchstick stems from a group of coders that spent way too much time mired in the guts of platforms such as Boot ...

  Posted September 30, 2014 by Shawn Bow

• Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox

  Generational garbage collection (GGC) has now been enabled in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine in Firefox 32. GGC is a performance optimization only, and should have no observable effects on script behavior. So what is it? What does it do? GGC is a way for the JavaScript engine to collect short-lived ...

  Posted September 25, 2014 by Steve Fink

• Low price smartphones – memory management and optimization on Firefox OS

  We know how to generate memory a footprint to debug memory leaks and to prevent abusing memory resources. Now, we would like to introduce the memory management and optimizations under the limited memory resources on Firefox OS. How to get more memory on Firefox OS? There are three types of ...

  Posted September 19, 2014 by Danny Liang