[ Developer] Adobe released Update 13 for ColdFusion 10 earlier this month for you to add support for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. It also addressed a bug directly with regards to Mac OS X 10.9 by fixing the apache connector at the new operating system. As is the case with most software updates, people aren’t satisfied. Upon announcing the update, the comments were flooded with users dissatisfied that Adobe is ignoring some long standing bugs and issues. Here’s a sampling: Of your entire bugs inside the bug base you fix this? Not impressed, neither will my clients with platinum support who log bugs that don’t get fixed. I has been disappointed by the order of the enormous fixes which have been released. i do know you guys are working hard but there are some outstanding issues which make CF10 unusuable for plenty of of my clients at this point. One user has even voiced complaints that ColdFusion 10 has yet so as to add... Read More »

[ Developer] Are you engaged on an Android app and wish to understand the best way to best persist with Google’s guidelines while inserting your personal personality into it? Well, that’s certainly a tall order for many indie developers, however is feasible. If truth be told, Google has a listing of what it feels are the precise designed Android apps currently available. In the newest episode of Google’s Android Design in Action Web series, the Android team dissects the superior designed Android apps on Google Play. Apps like Timely, Play Newstand, Foursquare, Esty and others make an appearance because the Android team gets into the nitty gritty of what makes these app designs stick out from remainder. You may just desire to take notes if you’re having trouble along with your own app design. Check out the complete 25 minute video below: Need more help designing an app? Take a look at this video from earlier this year where the Android team walks you thru... Read More »

[ Developer] With smartphones now dominating cell phone sales worldwide, manufacturers are looking past tablets toward a better untapped device market. Judging by the success of the poorly-reviewed Samsung Galaxy Gear, the subsequent big market is shaping as much as be wearable devices. Market research firm Strategy Analytics predicted that the worldwide wearable device market will hit 125 million units sold by the year 2017. The firm believes that smart watches, smart glasses, and fitness bands could be the biggest sellers in wearable computing over the subsequent five years. As well as the arriving wave of smart watches and the headwear segment which will begin with Google Glass, Strategy Analytics believes that both Apple and Microsoft would be “key vendors” within the years yet to come. “Texas Instruments, Google, and Samsung have to be seen because the pioneering vendors for launching products at an early stage within the markets’ life-cycle, but key vendors among the many second wave of entrants will include Apple and Microsoft,”... Read More »

PHP is the weapon of choice for lots Web developers. It’s an excellent thing then that the team behind it’s been very diligent with its releases. Surely, they’ve got recently released an update to handle some bugs which have popped up within the latest version. If you recall, the PHP Group in late June released PHP 5.5. This latest version included quite a few additions and improvements. For a refresher, here’s the entire new stuff that was added: Added generators and coroutines. Added the finally keyword. Added a simplified password hashing API. Added support for constant array/string dereferencing. Added scalar class name resolution via ::class. Added support for using empty() at the results of function calls and other expressions. Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach. Added support for list() constructs in foreach statements. Added the Zend OPcache extension for opcode caching. The GD library have been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improving existing functionality. A lot more improvements and fixes.... Read More »

[ Developer] The latest Linux kernel was officially released this week, bringing several new features with the beginning of the recent year. Linux 3.13 can now be compiled and installed freely. Updates in 3.13 includes nftables, a packet filtering framework meant to take where of iptables. While iptables can sometimes cause trouble during system updates, nftables is anticipated to remove these problems. Nftables is additionally backwards compatible, meaning iptable users can implement it without much work. Another significant update in 3.13 is Linux block layer scaling. This could help the OS better use the capabilities of newer hardware by allowing millions of IO requests per second. Chiefly this could help Linux better profit from the rate of SSD drives. Optimization for AMD’s Radeon GPUs has also been added in 3.13. Power management for more Radeon devices is now supported and is now the default for some devices. Support for the Radeon R9 290X has also been added. In addition to those larger updates, 3.13 contains... Read More »