2014 articles
Apple in a recent update to its Mac OS X operating system, removed the Java browser plugin altogether. It has now asked users to download the Java plugin directly from Oracle’s website, which puts the onus on the user and Oracle to keep the plugin updated.
Google has finally made an official announcement regarding the availability of Google Checkout in India which will allow Indian developers to sell paid apps.
Mozilla’s own marketplace for open web applications seems to be around the horizon.
In an effort to drive more developers to its mobile platform, Facebook released a new Android SDK with updated features and a dedicated Android Dev Center for developers on its platform.
It seems like there is a release of a new version of a tablet OS nearly every other week. Just goes to show how important and popular that form factor is turning out to be. The latest to release is Plasma Active Three, a tablet-centric OS in development by the KDE community.
Secure Boot, as its name suggests, is a security feature that—if supported by hardware—can make the boot process much less vulnerable to viruses and other malware. The way UEFI and Secure Boot do this is to only execute an operating system’s boot loader and drivers if they are signed by an accepted boot loader.
Google has recently open sourced a library that is designed to be a fast query engine for column-oriented database backends. The Supersonic Query Engine is their latest open source offering.
Google reached the first milestone release of Dart which also marks a year of development into the language for web apps. It was announced around the same time last year as a technology preview. The current milestone release of Dart makes a number of improvements in performance and aims to generate more interest by showing off accompanying tools like the Dartium browser and code editor.
Valve has been quickly iterating on their Greenlight service ever since they launched it on August 30th of this year. The latest additions to Greenlight are categories for Software and Concepts.
Google has made a public beta of its new Android developer console available. It features the ability to track statistics related to user ratings and an overhauled publishing workflow.
