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Ogre3D is an open source 3D graphics engine that powers many great games.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. helped the Ogre3D community porting the engine to Windows Phone 8.

This video gives you a short overview of the Ogre3D engine running on Windows Phone 8.

You can learn more about recent added...

Sencha just announced the support for Windows Phone 8 in Sencha Touch, a high performance HTML5 mobile application framework.

In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that allows to fully integrate the Sencha Touch based applications into the Windows Phone 8 experience.

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Earlier in April, a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7 was made available to allow mobile web developer build apps for Windows Phone 7 that would integrate into the experience of the platform.

The community has been hard at work and MS Open Tech helped them get this new jQuery Mobile theme for...

The Internet Explorer and Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. teams released a prototype implementation of the W3C  DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft  on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a device....

CouchDB is a simple and practical NoSQL database engine. The CouchDB tools come with abundance of scripts and samples to create web applications leveraging CouchDB.

This video demonstrates how to write a simple Windows 8 JavaScript application using CouchDB to navigate through a picture album.

HTML5 can be used in Windows Phone application development.

Leveraging HTML5 allows publishing a same application on several platforms reusing a maximum of code. Tools and frameworks such as Apache Cordova (previously known as PhoneGap) allow to "wrap" the HTML5 and JavaScript code into a native...

This webcast presents a description of the process in integrating the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) into an existing Apache Cordova application. Additional pointers are provided to aid developers in their task.

To learn more about the theme and download it, read the blog post.

This video is an introduction to the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) that allows applying a Metro style user interface to HTML5-based Windows Phone application.

HTML5 elements and controls are examined as they appear with the Metro style theme applied.

Theme switching and...

This video demonstrates the Bing Maps, Live Tiles and Social Share Apache Cordova plugins for Windows Phone.

You can learn more about these plugins and download them here.

The beta of the Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone has recently been released. This SDK provides developers with a speed dial that lets you quickly connect and integrate Windows Phone applications with AWS S3, SimpleDB and SQS services.

This video shows how to install the SDK and explains the steps...