Debugging iOS File Corruption at Facebook
Facebook engineers Slobodan Predolac and Nicolas Spielberg have recently described how they “solved a long-term mobile debugging problem and reduced the crash rate … by more than 50 percent.” In the process, they show general useful techniques and a few Facebook tools that can help with large, rapidly evolving codebases.
Facebook F8 Apps for iOS and Android Now Open-Source
Facebook-owned DBaaS platform Parse has open-sourced the full source code of the official Facebook f8 apps for iOS and Android, Parse Developer Advocates Christine Abernathy announced. The apps are aimed to provide guidance for how to build apps on Parse as well as a starting point for similar apps and shows an interesting use of Parse for UI customisation.
PHP 5.6 Released
The PHP development team announced the availability of PHP 5.6. The new release brings new features and many improvements, PHP development team say, as well as some backward incompatible changes.
Django 1.7 Is the Biggest Django Release since 1.0
It took the Django Software Foundation nearly one year, but finally Django 1.7 is here. This is the biggest Django release since Django 1.0, featuring “a new app loading framework, a new check framework, many improvements to query construction, and most importantly – Migrations”, a new built-in database migration system.