Thursday, July 25, 2013

Papal Indulgences - Tor, Peak+, Async C#, Android 4.3 and FAQs


  • Want to run a Tor exit node - check your terms and conditions first. Tim Janik explains 



  • Thats more like it - the Geeksphone Peak+ puts a little bit of muscle into a Firefox OS phone doubling the memory but not a lot else. It's no Edge, but then it's €149+taxes and you could have one in September. The change here is that this phone is for consumers rather than developers. 



  • Xamarin shipped out their async support for C# 5.0. Asynchronicity is a powerful tool, but you do have to make the mindset jump to use it well or be forced into it by the nature of the language environment.

Music Break



  • Waiting for Android 4.3 to land on your device ... here's the official What's New list. Feature I like? Pseudo Locales which are locals designed for English speakers to test their UIs in non-English fonts without making the content inaccessible and therefore untestable. Lots of other small improvements too, visible GPU profiling, notification listeners for context aware apps... 



  • And finally... The Government Digital Service's Sarah Richards FAQs as an anti-user pattern.



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