iOS8 Day-by-Day – iOS8 Day-by-Day is a blog series covering all that an iOS developer needs to know about the new technologies and APIs available to them in iOS8. That page will be an auto-updating index of all of the posts so far, so you can ensure that you haven't missed a day.
The Future of the Web (According to Google) – I spent the past two days at the Chrome Developer Summit in Mountain View. While the entire event was livestreamed and is now on YouTube, I thought it might be useful to talk a bit about where things seem to be going, at least from my perspective on Google
The Secret Life of Passwords – NYTimes.com – We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.
Spring Roo 1.3.0 introduces JDK 8 support – Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.
How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web – Java-to-JavaScript is handled by the Google Web Toolkit SDK, which has been around for some time. The real enabler for Inbox is called J2ObjC, which, as the name implies, converts Java code meant for Android into iOS-ready Objective-C code.
Swift Initialization and the Pain of Optionals #swiftlang #swift – Swift’s strict initialisation process results in a number of practical issues, leaving developers scratching their heads. This post explores a few solution including two-phase initialisation, the use of optionals and lazy properties.
