Apple's WWDC to kick off on June 13th

Apple will be holding its 27th annual Worldwide Developers Conference on from June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco. At this year's WWDC, the tech giant will tackle the next big thing for its four major software platforms: iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS. The kickoff event, including the keynote address, will happen at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, while the rest of the conference sessions will happen at Moscone West.

Those interested in securing tickets can apply via the WWDC site from today until Friday, April 22nd 10:00 a.m. PDT. The tickets will be given away through random selection and you'll be notified of your application status by Monday April 25th 5:00 p.m. PDT. This year as well, Apple is giving away 350 WWDC Scholarships for students and STEM organization members who want to meet an collaborate with developers at WWDC. Up to 125 of these scholar recipients will be issued travel assistance in case financial limitations keep them from participating. You can find out more about that here.

Apple releases Swift programming language into open source

Apple has released its Swift programming language, used for developing iOS and Mac OS applications and programs, into open source. Swift was developed two years ago as a replacement to Objective-C as a simplified yet powerful deveilopment tool.

Apple says Swift is, "the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency of compiled languages with the simplicity and interactivity of popular scripting languages.

Apple today also launched the Swift.org website with detailed information about Swift open source, including technical documentation, community resources and links to download the Swift source code.

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WWDC 2015: Mac OS El Capitan will focus on refinements and performance

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco - Apple revealed the latest version of its desktop operating system called OS X El Capitan. Continuing the tradition of naming their operating systems after popular Californian locales, El Capitan, which is located within Yosemite (the previous OS X's codename), can be likened to an evolutionary update similar to what Snow Leopard was to Leopard and Mountain Lion was to Lion.

Focusing on refinements and requested user features, El Capitan improves Window Management, boosts performance for graphics and power applications with Metal for the Mac which developers like Adobe are supporting to make their apps run faster and more efficiently on desktops and notebooks.

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Apple Beat: WWDC 2014 is about extending the ecosystems

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

Today’s WWDC Keynote, the 25^th of a series, saw Apple going back to its roots as one of the most innovative software companies in the business. The event was a frills-free, hardware-free ode to the developer community and it celebrated the coming of age of iOS as well as the ascension of OS X as one of the best designed and most interoperable desktop operating systems in the market today.

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