Category: The Others
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Apple mysteriously banned a popular app from the App Store, and a lot of programmers are mad
Apple has banned a popular app for programmers from its app store, as well as deleted the app developer’s account, the developer says. The app, called Dash, is for Macs and iOS. It’s been around for years. It lets developers easily find and insert snippets of code that they frequently use. View original article
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Swift Algorithm Club: September Digest
The Swift Algorithm Club is an open source project to implement popular algorithms and data structures in Swift. We thought it would be useful to periodically give a status update with how things are going with the project. View original article
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Vue 2.0 is Here! The Progressive JavaScript Framework
After six months of intense development, eight alphas, eight betas and eight release candidates, Vue 2.0, “The Progressive JavaScript Framework” is finally out. View original article
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Realm Open Sources Mobile Database, Grows It into Enterprise Platform
Realm has fully open sourced its mobile database while adding an object server to offer a complete enterprise mobile platform. View original article
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Google is reportedly announcing a new ‘Andromeda’ OS and laptop in October
We’ve been talking about if and when Google will combine Android and Chrome OS for ages now, but it seems our wishes may finally come true at the company’s upcoming October 4 hardware event. View original article
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The Ultimate Collection of Prototyping Tools for UX/UI Designers
Wireframing tools make creating a website or application fundamentally easier. It simplifies the communication between UX designers and clients and saves us much time on product development. This post has listed more than 20 different UX prototyping tools. View original article
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jQuery 3 – New Features and Performance Improvements
jQuery is one of the most used cross-platform JavaScript libraries. Its main goal is to give developers a simple, fast and cross-browser substrate for DOM manipulation. jQuery is engineered to be extensible and lets us build our own jQuery plugins very quickly. View original article
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Everything You Need to Know About Breaking Into the Video Game Industry
This won’t surprise anyone who picks up every annual release of the Call of Duty series or catches monsters on his or her smartphone with Pokémon Go, but video games are a huge, global industry. View original article
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Apple acquires machine learning company Tuplejump
Machine learning startup Tuplejump has been acquired by Apple. Hyderabad-based Tuplejump was founded in 2013 by Rohit Rai, Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu, and Deepak Alur. View original article
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Machine learning startup H2O lays off 10% of employees
H2O.ai, a startup that offers commercial support for open-source machine learning software, last week laid off 10 percent of its employees, mainly in sales, VentureBeat has learned. View original article
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IBM says: ‘Swift is now ready for the enterprise’
“Apple is smartly creating great digital experiences and I think they know that great digital experiences mean unleashing tons of innovation from the community overall,” Mike Gilfix, IBM’s VP of MobileFirst and Smarter Process told me, discussing Swift 3.0. Swift 3. View original article
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Apple Swift 3: Forward-looking, but not backward-compatible
“Move fast and break things,” the saying goes. Apple does both with the 3.0 version of its Swift programming language. Developed by Apple to replace Objective-C, Swift is now out in its first full point revision since it became an open source project. Apple deliberately made Swift 3. View original article
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New Apple Product Images and Messaging Guidelines
Images of iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and Apple Watch Series 2 are now available for you to use in marketing materials for your apps on the App Store. View original article
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Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat
Over the course of the summer, we previewed a variety of security enhancements in Android 7. View original article
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Webfonts on the Prairie
I last wrote about the progress of webfonts for A List Apart six years ago. Very few sites used webfonts then, but there was a lot of pent-up frustration among designers to get moving after 15 years of confinement to so-called “web-safe” system fonts. And move they did. View original article
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Android Studio 2.2
Android Studio 2.2 is available to download today. Previewed at Google I/O 2016, Android Studio 2.2 is the latest release of our IDE used by millions of Android developers around the world. Packed with enhancements, this release has three major themes: speed, smarts, and Android platform support. View original article
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Migrating from Subversion to Visual Studio Online
I recently had the opportunity to migrate a five-year old project from Subversion (SVN) to Visual Studio Online (VSOnline). View complete article
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Oracle Introduces Low-Code Development Platform in the Cloud
Among the host of cloud technology news items coming from Oracle Corp.’s OpenWorld conference was this tidbit of special interest to “citizen” mobile developers: a new cloud-based, low-code development platform in the making. View complete article