PHP
PHP version stats: July, 2021
Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent) Read More
Android
MAD Skills Navigation Series 2 Wrap Up!
Posted by Murat Yener It’s a wrap!! We’ve just finished the second series of Navigation on MAD Skills. In this series, we re-visited Chet’s DonutTracker app and added an important missing feature: the ability to Read more…
Python
PyCharm 2021.2 EAP 3
PyCharm 2021.2 EAP 3 is available with some nice new features! As usual, our main goal for the EAP is to give you a sense of what to expect in the upcoming PyCharm 2021.2 release. Read more…
Android
Sony’s camera-centric Xperia 1 III to ship on August 19th for $1,299
The Xperia 1 III puts an emphasis on advanced camera features and high-end display specs. | Image: Sony Sony’s next flagship phone, the Xperia 1 III, will ship on August 19th in the US — Read more…
Android
Twitter, TikTok, Google, and Facebook promise to boost protections for women online
Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images At the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris on Thursday Twitter, TikTok, Google, and Facebook committed to tackling online abuse and improving safety for women on their platforms. The pledge came Read more…
Android
Google TV rolls out new Watch With Me series for celeb-curated streaming
Image: Google TV Evidently acknowledging our collective content fatigue, Google TV has announced a new celebrity-curated Watch With Me series that should make finding something to binge a little less painful. Google announced that the Read more…
Android
Watch a police officer admit to playing Taylor Swift to keep a video off YouTube
Image from the Anti-Police Terror Project A confrontation Tuesday between a police sergeant and member of the public didn’t start out unusually. James Burch, policy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), was standing outside Read more…
Android
Google’s iOS app has a secret pinball Easter egg now
The Google app on iOS appears to have gotten a new Easter egg: a rather entertaining little pinball app hidden away in the “Tabs” menu. The game appears to have been added a few weeks Read more…
PHP
The case for partials and pipes in PHP
PHP Contributor Larry Garfield walks us through a couple of neat ideas and RFC’s for PHP he’s been working on. I would very much welcome a pipe operator in PHP. Read More
Android
Google is building support for digital COVID vaccine cards into Android
A digital COVID vaccine card in Android. | Image: Google Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card, which it calls a COVID Card, on their Read more…