Popular an notable hacker in the iOS community have shared his intention to leave the iOS ecosystem for Android ecosystem. 

This tweeted as shown below.

From the tweets, you will notice that he was displeased at the way iOS 7 crashes and the level of bugs it contains even its a beta 1 version.

He also lamented the patronizing design implemented by Apple for iOS 7.

In his words iOS 7 "is the worst move Apple did in a long time"

There is a possibility that other notable developers and hackers may share the same thought as pod2g. E.g @pimskeks, @musclenerd, @ih8sn0w and others.

Although, no word from them yet, there is a huge possibility they will spill soon on either how nice or ugly iOS 7 is.  

What do you think of this development?

Read More..

Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed MySQL service hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Today, we are embracing open standards and expanding customers’ choice of tools, technologies and architectures by adding support for native MySQL connections.



MySQL Wire Protocol is the standard connection protocol for MySQL databases. It lets you access your replicated, managed, Cloud SQL database from just about any application, running anywhere. Here are some of the top features enabled by the MySQL Wire Protocol:

• Low latency connections from applications running on Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine


• Use all your favourite tools such as MySQL Workbench, Toad and the MySQL command-line tool to manage your Cloud SQL instances


• Use standard drivers, such as Connector/J, Connector/ODBC, and Connector/NET, making it exceptionally easy to access Cloud SQL from most applications


• Replication to external MySQL databases for low latency connections and easy migration

Native connectivity also gives you great flexibility and control over managing and deploying your cloud databases. For example, you can use DBMoto from HiTSW to replicate data between Cloud SQL and on-premise databases -- including Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2. And you can use DBShards from CodeFutures to manage sharding across Cloud SQL instances, and migrate on- and off-cloud with no downtime.



Genoo, a SaaS provider of online marketing tools, has already put wire protocol support to use. They were outgrowing their existing cloud services provider, but were worried about migrating a live application to another environment. So Kim Albee, Genoo’s founder and President, turned to DBShards who used native connectivity to migrate Genoo’s database without any service disruption. She said, "Ive been amazed by what Cloud SQLs support for native connections can do. Before this feature, migrating between cloud providers would have been too costly."



You can read more about how they did it in this case study, or learn more about Cloud SQL.



-Posted by Joe Faith, Product Manager

Read More..