Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Android O Arrives as Developer Preview

  [caption id="attachment_140304" align="aligncenter" width="5445"] Android statues on Google campus[/caption] Android O is now in developer preview. While the actual consumer release date is still…
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  Google's New JPEG Tool Shrinks Images 35%

  [caption id="attachment_140505" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Google Guetzli image, right, is higher quality.[/caption] The ability to shrink JPEG images is important to developers of all disc…
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  The iMessage App Store is in Serious Trouble

  [caption id="attachment_137241" align="aligncenter" width="1592"] iMessage Apps[/caption] For all the attention we pay to iOS as a platform friendly to developers, it seems some are losing intere…
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  Twitter May Open Live Video API: Will It Matter?

  [caption id="attachment_130717" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Twitter[/caption] According to a report from The Information, Twitter is about to open its live-streaming API up to media compani…
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  Peer Programming: How to Get Involved

  [caption id="attachment_131017" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Peer programming is fun![/caption] Peer programming is a fun way to interact with others and (hopefully) learn a thing or two, bu…
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  Top Books Referenced on Stack Overflow

  [caption id="attachment_140415" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Stack Overflow commenters want you to read plenty of books.[/caption] If you ask a question on Stack Overflow, there’s a good cha…
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  How Major Tech Events Handle Scholarships

  [caption id="attachment_140436" align="aligncenter" width="3609"] Google I/O at Shoreline. Plenty of scholarship students in attendance.[/caption] Developers everywhere hope they can attend the h…
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  Swift, Go Rocketing Up New TIOBE List

  [caption id="attachment_137468" align="aligncenter" width="2357"] Swift 4 is coming.[/caption] Historically popular languages such as C and Python still dominate TIOBE’s list of most popular lang…
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  How Google and Siri Learn New Languages

  [caption id="attachment_137343" align="aligncenter" width="654"] Apple's Siri digital assistant on macOS.[/caption] You know how digital assistants and translation software work, but have you eve…
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  Apple Warns Developers Using Insecure Third-Party Tools

  [caption id="attachment_139213" align="aligncenter" width="1783"] Apple WWDC 2016[/caption] Apple has begun cracking down on app developers who update apps outside of the normal review process, s…