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A 9-year-old girl, Mackenzie Wilson, got a collective support of a Kickstarter campaign that will help her fund her very own role-playing game creation. With the help of her mother, Susan Wilson, the Mackenzie turned to crowdfunding site to raise around $829, enough money to cover her entrance fee to the RPG STEM Camp, a program where kids learn necessary skills to build their own video games. The

Microsoft Windows made a considerable effort to populate it's app store, by offering a $100 per app with a limit of up to $2,000 for apps published in the Windows and Windows Phone Stores before June 30, 2013. Windows noted that the offer is only limited to legal residents of the 50 US States, aged at least 18 years old and are U.S. registered Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store Developer

The Google Developers Blog have announced that the Google BigQuery has been updated with a greater range of query and data types that adds more flexibility with table structure, and better tools for collaborative analysis. The Google BigQuery is Google's tool that lets your run SQL-like queries against large datasets. The tool is designed to work most effectively when used for interactive analysis

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is asking once again for people to join its "mass collaboration" effort to produce open-source solutions that address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in Space. The International Space Challenge 2012 registration is now open while the day of the "codeathon" will be held this coming April 19-21, 2013. During last year's event

Three outstanding Filipino programmers and developers were named as finalist of the Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa Cup 2013. They became part of the elite top 15 regional finalists in the competition to be held at the National University of Singapore from March 21-23, 2013. The three Filipinos who will represent the Philippines were identified as Ivan Dominic Baguio and John

The Python bi-annual contest, more popularly known as PyWeek or the Python Game Programming Challenge is now open for registration. The Pyweek is a challenge to write a game using Python will starts its registration this coming April 14 while the voting for the theme will commences on April 7. Richard Jones was the main man behind the establishment of Pyweek during the year 2005. The contest

Stack Overflow, one of the best programming Q & A website have listed some of the world's most controversial programming opinions they ever received since the first day when the question was posted on the site last 2009. Although the questions was only available among select users but it garnered some of the most awesome and sometimes awkward answer. The answers of the questions about the

Ben Kamens, the lead developer of Khan Acadamy and has been part of Fog Creek revealed one of Amazon's best kept-secret, the mega dropdown. According to Ben, the hover effects in Amazon's "Shop by Department" mega dropdown are super fast. The submenu files launch quickly as your mouse moves down the list. Most dropdown menus have to include a bit of delay when activating submenus. He compared the

One of the most popular Google product, the Google Reader will meet it's inevitable end this coming July 1, 2013 as Google announced that the RSS service will be no longer available after the above mentioned date. Google Reader is a web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites. It has a huge following not only for bloggers but also, for some of the world's

Contrary to the recent news posted by BBC with the headline "Microsoft shares source code for Kinect gadget," this isn't the case, Microsoft has open sourced SOME samples that use the Kinect, not open sourcing all the codes. According to the news item, "Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code." There's a little bit of