This week we follow up on building Apple Watch apps to aid seniors in trouble, Google Home coming to Canada and configuring Amazon Echo to work in Canada. Jaime tells us about the latest digital assistant from Japan. Tim talks about working with HomeKit, Siri and using Homebridge. We close off the follow up with parking your Tesla with Alexa and Uber’s self driving car program ends.
We discuss the Octoverse report on popular language repositories on Github. App Transport Security comes into full effect on January 1, 2017 and we discuss how Apple will be inspecting apps for compliance. Finally we discuss Makers vs Menders.
Picks: Super Mario Run, Silicon Valley iOS Developers’ Meetup and Auto-include Open-Source Acknowledgements with CocoaPods.
Episode 124 Show Notes:
- Trauma surgeon & ER doctor crowdfunding Apple Watch app to detect falls for the elderly
- Relive
- CRTC declares broadband Internet a basic service
- Hatsune miku
- Google Home Coming To Canada In 2017
- Making the Amazon Echo work in Canada: The Complete Guide
- The holographic anime “robot” that will keep house for lonely salarymen
- Cortana
- Black Mirror
- How to control the Nest using HomeKit and Siri
- Meet Hue
- Smart WIFI Thermostats by Ecobee
- NodeJS
- August Smart Locks
- Apple TV Remote
- Free Community-based Mapping, Traffic & Navigation App
- One guy taught Amazon’s Alexa to summon his Tesla, because why not
- Uber pulls self-driving cars from San Francisco streets, bowing to regulators’ demands
- E-3 AWACS (Sentry) Airborne Warning and Control System, United States of America
- Octoverse on Github – wrap up of 2016
- BRIC
- Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Apple tells developers all apps must connect securely to servers by January 1st, 2017
- What’s New in Security – WWDC 2016
- Developer Differences: Makers vs Menders
- Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS toolkit
- Pokémon GO
- Episode 42 – Sarah Slean – Roundabout: Creative Chaos
Episode 124 Picks
- Pick: Super Mario Run
- Pick: Kitura Beyond Hello World – Slides
- Pick: Kitura Microservices Demo
- Pick: Swift 3 Spelunking by Greg Heo
- Quick Tip: Auto-include Open-Source Acknowledgements with CocoaPods
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