Dev News Weekly is designed to give you (and me) 10 useful software/web developer stories every Tuesday morning!

Satya Nadella laid out his vision for Microsoft this week. I like “productivity and platform” over “software and services”. “Software and services” sounds like “stuff and junk” just without the cool alliteration. Apple showed transparency with Swift. Amazon showed off some new AWS services and Google released a cross-platform SDK! I feel like I’m cheating at SEO but this all really did happen this week.

Developer News

• Apple opens up with a new blog about Swift, its new programming language [TechCrunch]
• App developers gain resource hub, search engine to build the future [MediaPost]
• Microsoft is a ‘productivity and platform company’ now, Nadella says [VentureBeat]
• Software developers rank ALM tools as best to use [eWeek]
• Game of Code: Checkio gamifies and crowdsources the task of programming [VentureBeat]
• Apigee initiates global API challenge [ProgrammableWeb]
• Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities [ACM]
• Amazon courts mobile devs with a new suite of AWS services [VentureBeat]
• Google Updates Android’s Play Games and Cross-Platform SDKs [ProgrammableWeb]
• New Raspberry Pi “B+” uses less power, has more USB ports [ArsTechnica]

Pick of the Week

I needed to have something else in these posts besides my usual blathering and 10 news stories, so I will choose one thing each week to promote just because I like it.

My last 2 picks have been podcasts so I felt the need to change it up. This week my pick is codecademy.com. For too long I said “I want to be a developer” without having an answer to the question “What kind of developer?” Codecademy allowed me to try out a language without too much overhead, actually without any overhead! It’s all on their site. If you want to check out a new web programming language, give them a visit!

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