Alistair Barr reporting for the Wall Street Journal:
Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine the operating systems and have made progress recently, two of the people said. The company plans to unveil its new, single operating system in 2017, but expects to show off an early version next year, one of the people said.
§Friday, October 30, 2015
Apple has put online all the reference documentation so anyone is now able to publish rich articles in its News application (via the Apple News API) :
Apple News Format is the custom JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format for News content. With Apple News Format, you can create beautiful layouts with iOS fonts, rich photo galleries, videos, and animations—all optimized for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
I was really expecting this one.
§Thursday, October 29, 2015
Among the last annoucements from Medium, the publishing API is the most interesting to me. The documentation is on GitHub. Daniel Jalkut, the guy behind the Mac blog editor MarsEdit took a look at it:
The extent to which the API supports working with posts boils down to a single mechanism for submitting a post to the service. It’s not possible to enumerate the list of existing drafts or published posts, e.g. to crosspost to another service or backup your posts to a local archive.
§Friday, October 9, 2015
Jeff Atwood reminds us that Eric Raymond in “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” has been proven wrong with his “Linus’s Law”:
The idea is that open source software, by virtue of allowing anyone and everyone to view the source code, is inherently less buggy than closed source software. He dubbed this “Linus’s Law”.
The Heartbleed SSL vulnerability went unnoticed for two years. The post is worth a read if you think open source is the best answer to fix all bugs in a software.
§Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Terry Myerson writing for the Windows Blog:
From the very beginning, we designed Windows 10 with two straightforward privacy principles in mind:
- Windows 10 collects information so the product will work better for you.
- You are in control with the ability to determine what information is collected.
You are warned: You have the right not to provide any personal information until you make a mistake.
§Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Linda Dong writing on her blog:
I was experimenting with Keynote’s animation tools and decided for fun to make a short animated motion graphic to showcase what the app can do. It’s pretty impressive how much Keynote can stand up to pro animation apps like After Effects and Motion and how fast it makes process. Honestly the most time consuming part of this was trying to get an adequate screen recording (video codecs blah).
§Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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