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• Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site

  This article is a simple tutorial designed to teach you some fundamental skills for creating cross platform web applications. You will build a sample School Plan app, which will provide a dynamic “app-like” experience across many different platforms and work offline. It will use Apache Cordova and Mozilla’s Brick web ...

  Posted October 16, 2014 by Piotr Zalewa

• Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

  Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that raised awareness. Most websites are, ...

  Posted October 15, 2014 by Florian Heinemann

• Unity games in WebGL: Owlchemy Labs’ conversion of Aaaaa! to asm.js

  You may have seen the big news today, but for those who’ve been living in an Internet-less cave, starting today through October 28 you can check out the brand spankin’ new Humble Mozilla Bundle. The crew here at Owlchemy Labs were given the unique opportunity to work closely with Unity, ...

  Posted October 14, 2014 by Alex Schwartz

• 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