Apple Leak Reveals iOS 9 Early Release

iOS 8 is a superb platform, but it has also been plagued by bugs. Arguably even more damaging for Apple , however, has been its ongoing struggle to fix them. So the company has had a simple but brilliant idea.

According to the ever reliable 9to5Mac, which cites “multiple people briefed on the plans”, Apple will perform a policy U-turn and begin releasing public betas of its latest iOS versions.

9to5Mac claims iOS 8.3 will be the first public beta in mid-March (iOS 8.2isn’t even out the door yet). This will tie in with iOS 8.3’s third beta release for developers which shows Apple sensibly isn’t pushing the very first beta straight to the public. It will also give cautious users more reassurance that new iOS versions are more widely tested before official launches.

Interested users will be able to get the software using Apple’s existingAppleSeed feedback program.

Far more exciting though is news Apple will also apply this policy to iOS 9. The company is expected to debut the next gen release at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June and follow up “with a public beta release during the summer, and final release in the fall.”

Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/02/20/apple-ios-early-releases/

Keyboard for one: 9 of the most impressive solo programming efforts

Notable examples of coding brilliance that came from the mind (and hands) of one programmer

Fabrice Bellard’s JSLinux

When you’re widely acknowledged to be one of thegreatest programmers in the world, you do something like write a browser-based PC emulator in JavaScript “for fun.” That’s the reason that Fabrice Bellard, known for things likes his QEMU hardware emulator, gave for doing just that when he wrote JSLinux. It emulates a 32 bit x86 compatible CPU running Linux with 32MB of RAM and includes a C compiler (Bellard’s own TinyCC) and emacs (Bellard’s QEmacs). And when you’re as smart and as good of a programmer as Bellard, you write it all in about 7,000 lines of code.

“I can't believe anyone would attempt this in Javascript, it's insanity.” Raffi256

“This is some truly amazing work” themoop

“Very impressive.” Alexandre C.

“Looking at Fabrice Bellard's accomplishments is a very humbling experience for any programmer.” Julianjon




Source:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2833731/keyboard-for-one-8-of-the-most-impressive-solo-programming-efforts.html