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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that its CodeGuru toolset for web developers is now generally available.

Based on my first experiences using Power Apps, I can already see that it’s possible to build sophisticated apps with literally no code. And that is blowing my mind.

Those hoping to see how Apple would respond to growing accusations of its App Store abuses were no doubt disappointed by the WWDC keynote.

Like some real developers, I’ve gone through what I call the three stages of irrational exuberance with Project Reunion only to land back in reality.

Among the coming improvements is new support for Win32 and UWP apps, which means that Flutter apps could run on Xbox or Windows 10X.

Apple today said that WWDC20 will somehow be the biggest WWDC to date, despite being a virtual-only event.

Google has released the first beta of Android 11, which includes many new features, and privacy and performance improvements.

Ten years ago this week, I observed that the future of computing was in the cloud and that Google was outperforming Microsoft.

Google announced that it is postponing next week’s scheduled Android 11 Beta event because of protests around the U.S.

After creating four different versions of .NETpad, and documenting three of them, it’s time to move on to something different.

Google today announced the release of Android Studio 4.0, the next major release of its Android app development environment.

While the rest of Microsoft embraces open source and open standards, Windows app development remains stuck in the proprietary past.

Microsoft lost some PWA momentum during its year-long shift to Chromium for the new Edge. But that’s over now.

At its Build 2002 virtual conference this week, Microsoft announced how it will evolve its Xamarin.Forms cross-platform developer framework.

Project Reunion is a modern replacement for UWP and a way to use APIs that were locked into UWP in other developer frameworks.

Microsoft just announced a bunch of things at Build 2020, here's everything you need to know.

Microsoft is adding some important new features to Visual Studio's Live Share feature.

After years of silence and misinformation, Microsoft finally made it official: It is “unifying access” to Win32 and UWP APIs.

Well, here’s the final nail in the UWP coffin: At Build 2020, Microsoft will finally describe how it plans to move past this platform disaster.

Microsoft today released the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 version 2004.

As you know, this year’s Microsoft Build 2020 event is virtual and not an in-person conference thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak.

With Windows 10X and Surface Neo in flux, there have been some questions about the fate of Surface Duo, the dual-screen Android device.

Google today announced Flutter 1.17, the latest version of its cross-platform developer framework, and Dart 2.8, the language used by Flutter.

Google had hoped to deliver Android 11 to device makers months earlier than usual, but that may not happen now.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the WPF version of .NETpad, but this is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

Google announced today that it is enhancing Flutter’s beta support for creating web apps by adding several important new features.

If you’re interested in attending Microsoft’s first virtual version of Build, you’ll be able to register later today.