DevNews #61 – It’s an iOS and Javascript world in here…

• Probably the lead story – the Lambda final revisions are in for JDK 8 and Brian Goetz has an informal summary here
• RxJava: Functional Reactive Programming on the JVM (Java, Scala, Clojure)
• Javascript world
  • Angular-sprout — Builds on angular-seed, basically a modular angular starter project, clone it and go:
  • jQuery 1.11 released Aaaaarrrrgh!:
    1.x is the version that still supports IE 6/7/8, so nice that there are still new things for us poor souls who still have to support old versions of IE
    • Asynchronous Module Definition support
    • performance improvements
    • Bower support
    • and NO API changes!
• IOS
  world
  • Joel has a hands on with iOS 7: (Joel likes it alot)
    Personal impressions: at first the cartoons threw me off, but a lot of nice usability baked in…
  • Bugs:
    • Mobile web issues with Safari on iOS 7
    • lock screen bug
    • Fingerprint scanner can be tricked,
      but did anyone doubt that? Still harder to crack than a 4 digit passcode, right?
  • Four iOS privacy settings you should turn enable immediately
  • Former Charioteer Heidi Utley’s collaborating on a book on iOS 7 that highlights the changes in iOS7 for existing iOS developers (not an intro, but should be a good resource):
• Valve announces Steam OS, a linux-based free gaming-oriented OS that device makers can freely include. Could disrupt the gaming market:
• RSA tells customers to stop using part of its BSAFE product since it has been pwned by the NSA:
  • In the comments section: “All of a sudden, Richard Stallman’s continuing tirade about purity of open source, and the need for proper documentation on everything (hardware included) doesn’t seem so crackpot now. Hindsight, but yes, we should have listened.” Interesting, yes?

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