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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:
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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:Issue 199
Rumours! Daily tips with Little Bites of Cocoa. Lint for your Swift files and chaining animations in Swift and Objective-C.
Published on: May 22, 2015 | Source:Issue 198
App analytics for everyone! Convert PDFs into CG code and perfect marketing screenshots for your watch apps.
Published on: May 15, 2015 | Source:Announcing eΟ: Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
As part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the far corners of the world, not to mention demonstrate the potential for embedded blockchain technology (even without light-nodes) I'm happy to announce the roll-out of our "eΟ" Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme. As part of our programme, we're offering a full-kit...
Published on: May 14, 2015 | Source:Olympic: Frontier Pre-Release
What began all the way back on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a close: we are happy to announce the release of the ninth and last in the Ethereum Proof-of-Concept series. We invite the community to participate in the ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet in our present...
Published on: May 09, 2015 | Source:Issue 197
Fastlane 1.0. Resizing Images with Neural Networks and how Microsoft brought Clang to Windows.
Published on: May 08, 2015 | Source:The end of the beginningβ¦
As part of our tiered release process, we will soon be beginning the final phase prior to our Frontier release. So far our ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet has been running smoothly for around a month with dozens of nodes around the world, well over 200,000 blocks and including clients on...
Published on: May 02, 2015 | Source:Issue 196
Analytics! Code signing tips for the watch. What do you put in your screenshots? and Visual Studio compiling Objective-C!
Published on: May 01, 2015 | Source:Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust
Special thanks to: Robert Sams, Gavin Wood, Mark Karpeles and countless cryptocurrency critics on online forums for helping to develop the thoughts behind this article If you were to ask the average cryptocurrency or blockchain enthusiast what the key single fundamental advantage of the technology is, there is a...
Published on: April 27, 2015 | Source:Issue 195
Don't mention Pebble! WatchKit mistakes and how to avoid them and a first look at ReactiveCocoa 3.0!
Published on: April 24, 2015 | Source:Issue 194
WWDC ticket time! . ResearchKit is here and on Github! The ultimate guide to code signing and why your spring animations are bad.
Published on: April 17, 2015 | Source:Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology
One of the questions that has perhaps been central to my own research in blockchain technology is: ultimately, what is it even useful for? Why do we need blockchains for anything, what kinds of services should be run on blockchain-like architectures, and why specifically should services be run on blockchains...
Published on: April 13, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection
With Ethereum getting close to its first official launch with Frontier, we have spent the last week of February at our holon in Switzerland discussing what the future of the Ethereum Foundation is going to look like. Since the start of the project, one of our primary dreams has been...
Published on: April 10, 2015 | Source:Issue 193
iOS 8.3 & Xcode 6.3 released. Wobbly views and should you be thinking about Force Touch in iOS?
Published on: April 10, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director
Stiftung Ethereum, the Zug, Switzerland-based Ethereum Foundation --ethereum.org, is seeking to immediately fill the Executive Director position within the Foundation. The role involves defining and discharging the day-to-day business of the Foundation and leading the organization at the executive level. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate...
Published on: April 08, 2015 | Source:DEVgrants: Here to Help
Few would argue against the fact that Ethereum has been gifted with one of the most diverse and thoughtful communities ever gathered around any open source project. Fueled by what can only be described as impassioned determination, developers from all walks of life have risked their time and credibility to...
Published on: April 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year Iβve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. During the last few months Iβve been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools, constantly...
Published on: April 06, 2015 | Source:Blockchain Scalability: Chain-Fibers Redux
History I came up with the first seed of this idea while chatting to Janislav Malahov in Berlin in Spring 2014. Unfortunately, the original article I wrote was lost along with my laptop when it was stolen in Vienna. After chatting over the principles with Vitalik more recently, we...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source:Bazaar Services
I'm a great believer in judging the present through the knowledge of the past. In the past 25 or so years one of the biggest trends in business and technology was what might loosely be termed as the open source revolution. The notion of it being good business to share...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source:Issue 192
Watch Apps are ready for submission. The perfect Core Data Stack and a new concept for moving around a navigation controller.
Published on: April 03, 2015 | Source:Implementing Vitalikβs vision
Although the core concept was proven last summer when lead developers Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke initiated the PoC (proof-of-concept) series in Python, C++, and Go, a lot of engineering effort has gone to solidifying these implementations. We're all anxious to release a stable command line client and...
Published on: April 02, 2015 | Source:Ethereumβs unexpected future direction
Ethereum has been preparing what we consider to be the most exciting digital alliance since IBM and Microsoft partnered so successfully on the IBM PC. We know that youβve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you with this exciting and unexpected news. As...
Published on: April 01, 2015 | Source:Issue 191
Watch apps start to appear on the store. Security bug in AFNetworking and more new frameworks than you'll ever need!
Published on: March 27, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year Iβve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the community side and...
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source: