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Issue 213
Swift improvements with Xcode 7 beta 6. Get your FOOMs/BOOMs under control and understanding App Transport Security.
Published on: August 28, 2015 | Source:
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Olympic Rewards Announced
ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased to...
Published on: August 26, 2015 | Source:Issue 212
Bring back pixel perfect Monaco inside Xcode. Help with debugging Auto Layout and adding a routing engine to your app!
Published on: August 21, 2015 | Source:Security alert [consensus issue]
This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 β Issue has been fixed, see "Fix" below. Impact:High Issue description: State database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data, which could happen during...
Published on: August 20, 2015 | Source:An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks
After a successful launch, Frontier passed it's 100000th block earlier this week. Here are some interesting stats from these first blocks. The first 50 block times (in seconds): Right after genesis, it took 29 seconds for the second block to appear, then 31 and 29 seconds for...
Published on: August 18, 2015 | Source:Issue 211
More detail in your App Store analytics. How do you protocol? and put your app through its paces with a naughty keyboard.
Published on: August 14, 2015 | Source:Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
This following shows our current and planned expectations concerning maximum likely chain-reorganisation depth. We would not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent. These are our own expectations only and do not constitute any sort of guarantee. They are derived from theoretical considerations,...
Published on: August 08, 2015 | Source:Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero]
This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed below.Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected. Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory,...
Published on: August 07, 2015 | Source:On Public and Private Blockchains
Over the last year the concept of "private blockchains" has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg. proof of work, proof of stake), it is also possible to create a system...
Published on: August 07, 2015 | Source:Issue 210
TestFlight support for watchOS 2. Writing Windows Phone apps in Objective-C and Should you add that third party library to your app?
Published on: August 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Protocol Update 1
Here comes the first Frontier patch, and this is a big one! Before you go further, if your keys date back from Go 1.0 rc or C++ 0.9.36, note that you should regenerate all of your keys NOW. Though some releases of the pre-alpha and alpha clients are secure,...
Published on: August 04, 2015 | Source:The Thawing Frontier
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you - if youβre not a miner, there is nothing to action....
Published on: August 04, 2015 | Source:Introducing Casper βthe Friendly Ghostβ
Hi everyone β Vlad here. Iβve been working on the analysis and specification of βproof-of-stakeβ blockchain architecture since September 2014. While Vitalik and I havenβt agreed on all of the details of the spec, we do have consensus on many properties of the proof-of-stake protocol that will likely be implemented...
Published on: August 01, 2015 | Source:Issue 209
Will we see an Apple TV SDK in September? Spacial interface design and how to use UIKeyCommand.
Published on: July 31, 2015 | Source:Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director
After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation has selected an Executive Director and named three members to the Board of Directors. This is a new organizational structure, which will allow us to focus on our next phase of development. The Ethereum Foundation is a not for profit (βStiftungβ)...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Launches
A few minutes ago, many of you generated and loaded the Ethereum Genesis block, marking the inception of Frontier, the first Live release of the Ethereum project. The Dev team joins me in thanking each and everyone of you for your support during the past year and half. Itβs...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:A few last minute notesβ¦
Genesis is roughly 4 hours away, here are a few last minute pointers for those preparing: All clients are functional on all platforms and build to completion: http://ethereum-buildboard.meteor.com/ Please note that it will take a little while (10-1000 blocks) before the network stabilises. This is a marathon, not...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:Final Steps
An update as promised: all systems are now βGoβ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my previous blog post. What became apparent is that prior to the big day, many of you wanted...
Published on: July 27, 2015 | Source:Issue 208
Swift 2 beta 4 with performSelector. Automate your TestFlight process and which iOS design guidelines should you break?
Published on: July 24, 2015 | Source:Frontier is coming - what to expect, and how to prepare
We are only days away from launching 'Frontier', the first milestone in the release of the Ethereum project. Frontier will be followed by 'Homestead', 'Metropolis' and 'Serenity' throughout the coming year, each adding new features and improving the user friendliness and security of the platform....
Published on: July 22, 2015 | Source:Issue 207
What is the future of Objective-C? Reordering collection view cells and what should our Apple watch apps actually do?
Published on: July 17, 2015 | Source:Issue 206
What has Swift brought to Objective-C? Dig into the Address Sanitizer and will we see fully interactive notifications in OS X?
Published on: July 10, 2015 | Source:How do you know Ethereum is secure?
As I'm writing this, Iβm sitting in the London office and pondering how to give you a good overview about the work weβve been doing to secure Ethereumβs protocols, clients and p2p-network. As you might remember, I joined the Ethereum team at the end of last year to manage the...
Published on: July 07, 2015 | Source:On Abstraction
Special thanks to Gavin Wood, Vlad Zamfir, our security auditors and others for some of the thoughts that led to the conclusions described in this post One of Ethereum's goals from the start, and arguably its entire raison d'Γͺtre, is the high degree of abstraction that the platform offers....
Published on: July 05, 2015 | Source:Issue 205
How to create a watchOS 2 complication, or a basketball game with UIDynamics. Also, videos from the Swift Summit!
Published on: July 03, 2015 | Source:State Tree Pruning
One of the important issues that has been brought up over the course of the Olympic stress-net release is the large amount of data that clients are required to store; over little more than three months of operation, and particularly during the last month, the amount of data in each...
Published on: June 26, 2015 | Source:Issue 204
Beta 2 of all the things. Digging into UI testing in Xcode 7 and how does engineering work inside Facebook after the acquisition of Instagram.
Published on: June 26, 2015 | Source:Ethereum messaging for the masses (including fathers) - via infographic
When I started evangelizing bitcoin and blockchain tech back in 2012 my Dad was a hard sell. There was the common skepticism and typical counters of βwhatβs backing it?β, βwhat can be done with it?β and βwhat the heck is cryptography?" Back then my pitch wasnβt refined and the learning...
Published on: June 21, 2015 | Source:Issue 203
Apple starting an official curriculum for Swift? Playing around with UIStackView and what is protocol oriented programming?
Published on: June 19, 2015 | Source:Another Ethereum ΓΞV Update
Been a while, I know, but then these are rather busy days. I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Shanghai sitting behind the Great Firewall, able to peep out only occasionally. I've been in Asia with Marek for the last couple of weeks, mainly for meetups, workshops and technical...
Published on: June 15, 2015 | Source:Issue 202
What a week at WWDC! Swift 2, iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 updates and better search in CocoaPods.
Published on: June 12, 2015 | Source:The Problem of Censorship
One of the interesting problems in designing effective blockchain technologies is, how can we ensure that the systems remain censorship-proof? Although lots of work has been done in cryptoeconomics in order to ensure that blockchains continue pumping out new blocks, and particularly to prevent blocks from being reverted, substantially less...
Published on: June 06, 2015 | Source:Issue 201
Questions about the native watch SDK. Collaborative editing with Xcode and the answer to the eternal question, "How do you actually build an app?"
Published on: June 05, 2015 | Source:Issue 200
Double century! Read my WWDC tips and learn about xcconfig files, how to get hyphenation working on the watch and more.
Published on: May 29, 2015 | Source:The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision
Special thanks to Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke for countless revisions feedback, picks at their brains, and helpingme read their tea leaves....
Published on: May 24, 2015 | Source: