Kim Dotcom’s infamously shutdown service Megaupload which relaunched as MEGA earlier this year attracted a lot of media attention. It was looking like Dotcom’s much-loved site was coming back ten-fold, but has MEGA actually failed?
Fast forward almost a year later and has the service actually made an impact? Kim has just announced he’s stepping down as CEO of MEGA to focus on his music venture instead run under himself not the MEGA brand. While he will stay as a stakeholder/shareholder, it looks like he’s exited from the site he was once really passionate about.
Whoa. I bet nobody saw that coming, but Sweden has just announced any Syrian who applies for asylum in Sweden will get it. Basically opening the doors for a potential culture crisis in the years to come.
While you can’t deny Sweden has meatballs of steel doing this and are no doubt deliberately setting a good example in which other countries hopefully do the same, it’s a crazy idea. Sweden isn’t an overly large place and has enough illegal immigration issues to worry about as it is.
Every man, woman and child has written an article proclaiming the death of the PC and that this is the post-PC era that prefers tablets and mobile phones instead.
While you can’t argue people definitely love their shiny pieces of brushed aluminimum and our phones can do what computers were only able to do 10 years ago, computers aren’t dead.
There are a lot of misguided facts but the key misguided fact is slower computer and processor sales. This can be attributed to the fact global economies are going down the toilet (Europe and the United States especially), people can no longer afford the convenience of upgrading whenever they want.
There’s been whispers of an Apple smartwatch for years and in true Samsung style, they’ve showcased a prototype of a Galaxy Gear smartwatch which looks ridiculous. It seriously looks like a shrunken version of the Galaxy S4.
Unless you’re an old man or watch nerd, does anyone serious wear watches any more? I don’t even get why bringing out a smartwatch is actually a priority nor a thing. Whenever you ask someone the time they’ll usually pull out their iPhone, Android or equivalent phone for the time, not look to a watch.
There is a serious problem in the tech world and no, it’s not gender equality. The news, feminists and anyone else involved in the debate all like to argue that the tech world is run by misogynous men who have 1950’s views on women in the workplace. The tired argument of women finding it hard to get a tech job is also flaunted. None of this is true.
You know why there aren’t as many women in tech (especially programming)? Because well, there just aren’t as many women interested as there are men. It has nothing to do whether you have man parts or women parts, it’s just a matter of difference. You could argue that there aren’t enough male nurses and while there are some, most men are just not interested in being nurses.
Quinoa is a staple of South American inhabitants (poor and non-poor alike), a grain the people have been consuming way before it was cool with hipsters and health freaks to consume it in North America and then subsequently any Westernised continent.
The rise in popularity and demand for this precious grain-like food has created a few problems. One of the major problems is the supply struggling to keep up with demand. This once readily available staple is now a commodity, those who have been relying on it for years to feed their families and live are being robbed.
It’s hard to argue WordPress has been the dominant blogging platform since forever and while it’s still widely used for blogging, it’s used more-so as a content management system if anything else. This site uses WordPress, but to be quite honest, doesn’t take advantage of any of its CMS features like post types and whatnot.
The Growing Micro/Static Blog Movement There has been a growing trend in the blogging space (mostly developers for the moment) using Markdown based blogging platforms that use actual files and parse them into HTML instead of needing a database or any complicated features like plugins.
Kohana has become somewhat of a new-found obsession for me, I am releasing yet another Kohana module contribution in the form of a theming module that allows you to add theme functionality to your Kohana projects.
First and foremost, in its current state, this module is merely a fancy wrapper around Kohana modules that allows you to have a custom set of theme directories. Behind the scenes the active theme is loaded as a module into Kohana and worked with like it can be any other way. This module is for Kohana 3.3.
Here is another Kohana 3.3 contribution in the form of a serial key library. Essentially it does what it says on the tin: it generates serial keys. You can generate serial keys using a bunch of different formats and it’s pretty minimal in terms of configuration/functionality.
Check out the Kohana serial key library on Github here and feel free to make contributions and report issues.
You may recall a year or so ago I wrote a library for Codeigniter that allowed you to build applications with a plugin system similar to that of WordPress. After recently switching to Kohana, I’ve ported over my plugin system to Kohana and made some improvements.
This is my first Kohana contribution, I have yet to decide what my next contribution will be, but there will be lots more coming.