When Homeland first came out, season one had me hooked. Season two still had me hooked, the storyline remained suspenseful and deciphering if Brodie was good or bad was thrilling.
When season three rolled around, the show was losing some obvious steam. We had already determined that Brodie was one of the good guys, he was just a little messed up. And after the end of season three when Brodie died, it freed up the shows director and writers to pursue any direction they wanted too.
When it comes to source control, us developers are an interesting bunch. I have seen a few different styles of committing and using source control. We pick whatever works for us without really giving it any thought.
It actually dawned on me the other day after a fellow developer commented on my workflow style with Git that perhaps some developers out there are making it not only difficult for themselves, but their team and organisation as well.
Well, it is official: the HTML5 standard has been announced as finalised and is now officially recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
While many of us have been using HTML5 for years now, todays news means that there is no reason to use anything else. Mostly supported by the browsers that matter and polyfills for browsers that lack support for some features.
The W3C mentions that it worked with more than 60 companies getting the standard finalised and that over 4,000 bugs were resolved in the process.
Recently a British company called Centre for Process Innovation released a report proclaiming that we will see windowless planes within 10 years. With the windows being replaced by OLED screens which amongst other settings, could mirror the outside of the plane to make it look see-through.
While the rendering images and subsequently released video look kind of cool, the cost to implement OLED screens into existing planes would be astronomical. Not to mention requirements around power would need to be considered as well as lifespan of an OLED panel which currently is estimated to only be a few short years (based on current OLED high-end televisions).
When Tim Cook proudly announced Apple Pay recently and the impressive number of stores it had got onboard, I was shocked. Had Apple finally pulled off a feat many others have struggled to implement on such a large scale? Early reports indicated a resounding yes.
Now, it seems some other major retailers are planning on launching their own offering to rival Apple Pay and shuttering support for it. The retailers include; Walmart, Kmart, 7-Eleven and Best Buy. Expected to launch next year, a payment service and accompanying app called CurrentC which sounds like a bottled juice drink than it does a payment service.
If you work in the tech industry, more specifically as a developer (software or web) you are slowly dying from a disease commonly known as: overtime.
There is no cure for overtime other than something called common sense. It comes in many different forms, but for many including myself, it can be a hard pill to swallow when a deadline is looming or a culture of overtime is prevalent. When the company comes to expect overtime, in this economy you have two choices: deal with it and hope you do not burn out or find a new job.
Thanks a lot Apple, you incompetent pieces of shit. Gone are the Steve Jobs days of quality and consistency, these days it seems not only have Apple stopped innovating, they can not even seem to release a software update without breaking things.
First the messed up launch of iOS 8 and the number of issues people experienced there, now the latest and supposedly greatest version of OS X comically named Yosemite is experiencing more issues than an actress in a rehab clinic.
Recently on my MacBook Pro when I launched DOTA 2, the dock was showing and the menu bar, buttons were being cut-off and the game was hard to use. The issue seems to stem from how Steam sometimes launches the game client.
The fix is rather simple and worked for me.
Open up the Steam client Click the Library tab Right click on Dota 2 Select Properties Click on the General tab (it should be selected by default) Click on the “Set Launch Options” button In the box that pops up enter -fullscreen
I am a huge fan of 1Password and the update process has always gone very smoothly, however recently while attempting to upgrade from 4.4.2 to version 4.4.3 I kept getting an error message about how the application archive failed to extract.
I tried absolutely everything and came to the conclusion that this is an issue with the update package or the update software itself.
The fix is to manually download the update from the 1Password site here and manually install it (which works). Annoying, but not world ending.
Well, it finally happened. I broke my phone whilst playing a furious game of air hockey. Leaning against the table for those slam shots resulted in my loyal Samsung Galaxy S4 getting its LCD broken and cracks in the glass.
I am currently in Seattle, my insurance ran out recently and I had to go and find a new phone. I tried to find just a straight up Galaxy S4 for a decent price, to no avail.