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Issue 237
CloudKit Server to Server API. A quick update on ResearchKit and Quartz tries a messaging UI in their news app.
Published on: February 12, 2016 | Source:
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Cut and try: building a dream
Last month marked the 2 year anniversary of Ethereum's public announcement at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida, USA. Amid much rumour and excitement, a sizeable crowd mobbed the young Vitalik Buterin after his on-stage announcement, questioning the merit and his desire to build such a system. ...
Published on: February 09, 2016 | Source:Issue 236
How do Apple intend to make Cocoa more Swifty? Why you should consider *all* the view controllers and how to get your first iOS job.
Published on: February 05, 2016 | Source:Issue 235
Parse shuts down. Writing your own networking API clients and what on earth is vibrating colour?
Published on: January 29, 2016 | Source:Issue 234
Are Apple launching an official training curriculum? Is your Swift app taking too long to compile? and how to use #available.
Published on: January 22, 2016 | Source:Privacy on the Blockchain
Blockchains are a powerful technology, as regular readers of the blog already likely agree. They allow for a large number of interactions to be codified and carried out in a way that greatly increases reliability, removes business and political risks associated with the process being managed by a central entity,...
Published on: January 15, 2016 | Source:Issue 233
iOS 9.3, Xcode 7.3 and iTC updates. CoreDragon brings drag and drop to your iPad apps and How does onboard you.
Published on: January 15, 2016 | Source:The last Blog Post
The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say. -- Pink Floyd It is with no small amount of sadness that I must bid ye farewell. Like The Floydβs work, in the time Iβve been involved with Ethereum, Iβve sampled the full gamut of...
Published on: January 11, 2016 | Source:ΓΞVgrants Update and New Funding
If DEVCON1 proved anything in spades, it was certainly the enthusiasm, creativity, and momentum of the Ethereum developer community. Utilizing the never-before-seen potential unleashed by the Ethereum World Computer, our small-but-growing community is not just re-imagining money (or even just re-imagining the Internet)... It is also re-imagining and delivering alternative...
Published on: January 08, 2016 | Source:Issue 232
Details of the Swift 2.2 release process. Refactoring for Swift projects and should all apps be purchasable from the web?
Published on: January 08, 2016 | Source:Ethereum Foundation Internal Update
Now that Ethereum has launched and is rapidly nearing its Homestead phase, over the last few months we at the Ethereum Foundation have finally had the chance to have some breathing room and plan our strategies with a more long-term view. From a development perspective, we have now started in...
Published on: January 07, 2016 | Source:Understanding Serenity, Part 2: Casper
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last post in this series, we...
Published on: December 28, 2015 | Source:Understanding Serenity, Part I: Abstraction
Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum protocol over time and our long development roadmap, learning from...
Published on: December 24, 2015 | Source: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: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 Ethereumβs 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 Ethereumβs DEVCON1
London, United Kingdom, October 22nd - The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of Ethereumβs annual conference DΞVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nickβs 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 β 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: