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Issue 229
Phil Schiller takes responsibility for the App Stores. Craig Federighi on the Talk Show & the a community proposal is accepted to the Swift project.
Published on: December 18, 2015 | Source:
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Issue 228
Open source Swift, one week on. How does Swift implement weak pointers? and how is the Apple TV App Store doing?
Published on: December 11, 2015 | Source:Ethereum in practice part 3: how to build your own transparent bank on the blockchain
This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these tokens....
Published on: December 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum in practice part 2: how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code
This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the latest version of the Ethereum Wallet, read the first part and let's have fun! Creating a token is fun, but what is the...
Published on: December 04, 2015 | Source:Issue 227
Swift.org is here! New package managers and Foundation being re-implemented in Swift. What a week!
Published on: December 04, 2015 | Source:Ethereum in practice part 1: how to build your own cryptocurrency without touching a line of code
A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer to understand where we are and what's available out there. So I would like to use my first post here to give you an...
Published on: December 03, 2015 | Source:Issue 226
Want to build your back end in Swift as well as your iOS apps? Get to grips with storyboard references and how to fix a bad UI.
Published on: November 27, 2015 | Source:Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets You Might Not Have Thought About
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. For the past six years, people have been searching to try to find those elusive applications of blockchain technology that could finally break out into the mainstream. For cryptocurrency,...
Published on: November 24, 2015 | Source:Issue 225
Do we need a padOS? Interacting with the new stylus from code and can you diff binary plist files?
Published on: November 20, 2015 | Source:Merkling in Ethereum
Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so poses large scalability challenges that arguably puts the ability to trustlessly use blockchains...
Published on: November 15, 2015 | Source:Issue 224
Major iTunes Connect changes. Tech Talks announced, focusing on tvOS and where can you use "where"?
Published on: November 13, 2015 | Source:Stateful Turing-Complete Policies
One of the major security challenges of the internet over the last twenty years has consistently been the rather simple problem of securing user accounts. Right now, users have accounts with hundreds of websites, and dozens of passwords, leading to large numbers of
Published on: November 09, 2015 | Source:Issue 223
Edge swipes on Safari View Controller! A major update to Simpholders and how to talk to journalists.
Published on: November 06, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 44
With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray from Microsoft. Tickets are limited and we...
Published on: November 02, 2015 | Source:Issue 222
Apple TV day! Good luck if you've shipped an app. Reachability in Swift and taking screenshots on Apple TV.
Published on: October 30, 2015 | Source:Microsoft to Sponsor Ethereum’s DEVCON1
London, United Kingdom, October 28th - Ethereum is happy to announce that Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference. Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US Financial Services at Microsoft said, "Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ether...
Published on: October 28, 2015 | Source:Issue 221
Submit your tvOS apps! Experimental UI's using 3D Touch and how can GameplayKit be used outside of games?
Published on: October 23, 2015 | Source:Nick Szabo Confirmed as Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s DEVCON1
London, United Kingdom, October 22nd - The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s annual conference DΞVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nick’s keynote will focus on the history of the blockchain, smart contracts and assets on the blockchain. Nick is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known...
Published on: October 22, 2015 | Source:Security alert [Implementation of BLOCKHASH instruction in C++ and Go clients can potentially cause consensus issue – Fixed. Please update.]
Summary: Erroneous implementation of BLOCKHASH can trigger a chain reorganisation leading to consensus problems Affected configurations: All geth versions up to 1.1.3 and 1.2.2. All eth versions prior to 1.0.0. Likelihood: Low Severity: Medium Impact: Medium Details: Both C++ (eth) and Go (geth) clients have...
Published on: October 22, 2015 | Source:Vitalik’s Research and Ecosystem Update
Over the last five days, myself, our executive director Ming Chan, and several others from the Ethereum team and Ethereum-based projects and businesses including Maker, String/Dfinity and Consensys have been visiting China and Hong Kong, where there have been a series of back-to-back conferences and events most notably including the...
Published on: October 18, 2015 | Source:Issue 220
What libraries are used in the top 100 apps? How to do push notifications right? and a checklist for setting up IAPs.
Published on: October 16, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 41
In an effort to bring the community more information about the going-ons at Ethereum, we're planning to release semi-weekly updates of project progress. Ihope this provides some high-level information without havingto live onGitHub ;) The Go and C++ teams have daily standups and are making regular progress along with...
Published on: October 13, 2015 | Source:Security Advisory [eth (cpp-ethereum) potentially vulnerable if running with UPnP enabled]
Affected configurations: Issue reported for eth (cpp-ethereum).Likelihood: Medium
Published on: October 10, 2015 | Source:Issue 219
iPad multitasking drag and drop. Get your peeks and your pops right and is your UI too "Disney"?
Published on: October 09, 2015 | Source:Issue 218
Can you test force touch on the simulator or use the taptic engine in your apps? Is the keyboard in iOS 9 finally usable again?
Published on: October 02, 2015 | Source:The Evolution of Ethereum
Many of you know that the Ethereum platform grew out of the realization that blockchains can go far beyond currency, together with a frustration with the limitations of previous projects. The core idea was simple: a blockchain with a built-in Turing-complete programming language, allowing users to build any kind of...
Published on: September 28, 2015 | Source:More uncle statistics
The following are some interesting results on the performance of different miners over the course of the first 280,000 blocks of the Ethereum blockchain. For this timespan I have collected the list of block and uncle coinbase addresses; raw data can be found here for blocks and here for uncles,...
Published on: September 25, 2015 | Source:Issue 217
Ghosts in the App Store. Easier Bluetooth development and leave your ratings and reviews for iOS SDK APIs!
Published on: September 25, 2015 | Source:DEVcon is back!
DevCon 1 will be happening in London on November 9-13, a little over one hundred days since the Ethereum network launched. Over the last months, we’ve seen the network grow from a few hundred nodes starting on that one exciting and special night to a very substantial, globally deployed stable...
Published on: September 24, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Comms Announcement
The foundation is currently in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. Several members of our current communications team in London are soon leaving or reducing their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for-profit ventures on top of the Ethereum ecosystem; we wish them the best of luck....
Published on: September 18, 2015 | Source:Issue 216
Should you ship with Bitcode now, or wait? Getting UIKit running on the Apple Watch and how to add Quick Actions to your app.
Published on: September 18, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Wallet - Developer Preview
We are happy to announce our very first developer-preview of the Ethereum Wallet ÐApp. The point of this release is to gather feedback, squash bugs and, most importantly, get the code audited. Please note that this is a developer-preview and not the final release. We advise you to be...
Published on: September 16, 2015 | Source:On Slow and Fast Block Times
One of the largest sources of confusion in the question of blockchain security is the precise effect of the block time. If one blockchain has a block time of 10 minutes, and the other has an estimated block time of 17 seconds, then what exactly does that mean? What is...
Published on: September 14, 2015 | Source:Issue 215
Apple TV! Here's everything you need to know to get started.
Published on: September 11, 2015 | Source: