You might have heard Elder Scrolls Online has hit Steam at 50% off its original price. I decided to take the plunge and buy the game, I purchased the Imperial Edition for $50 because the price seemed right.
There are no advantages in the Imperial Edition First things first: the Imperial Edition gives you no advantage whatsoever over the Standard Edition. I purchased the Imperial Edition instead of the standard one out of impulse because it was 50% off, I didn’t really read what you got in the Imperial version (in-depth anyway), I didn’t care.
When it comes to obtaining a comprehensive database of suburbs, cities, towns, regions and localities in Australia, to put it simply: it’s a painful process.
As far as I am aware, there is nothing out there (for free anyway) that offers up-to-date and comprehensive information about suburbs, cities, towns and more. So, I bit the bullet and ended up purchasing the data myself from this site.
To be quite honest, I was VERY sceptical I would even receive the data. The site looked dodgy, the .info domain didn’t inspire confidence either. However, after paying my $50 AUD, I received the data instantly. However, I needed a MySQL copy of the data and their support was super quick to respond and offer me a MySQL export of the data I could import. SOLD!
Fears of another world war have been sparked after a ground to air missile took down Malaysia Airlines MH17 the other day. While Russia themselves didn’t directly attack this plane, rebels that they support and arming most likely did which in turn in is an attack by Russia, but due to the complicated laws surrounding what is deemed an act of war, the situation isn’t clea-cut.
It took a plane full of 300 innocent civilians for us to give a shit about what is happening in Ukraine. Up until now, the world has kept out of the conflict in Ukraine allowing Russia to commit unspeakable acts of murder and force, the strike on MH17 made the world stand-up and take notice of the conflict.
If you’re familiar with GruntJS, you might be familiar with Gulp.js. Both are very similar, Gulp is the newer kid on the block that requires significantly less configuration to write tasks.
If you’re new to Gulp or perhaps already use it, but not sure how to do specific tasks with it, see below for a list of basic tasks you can achieve in Gulp.js.
There is a complete gulpfile.js at the bottom of this page containing all include files as well as directives if you struggle to follow along.
WordPress 4.0 the next major version of WordPress has hit beta version 2 and it is the most underwhelming major release of WordPress in the history of WordPress.
Previously, every major iteration of the popular CMS has come with a plethora of changes (whether it be UI or core based), in 4.0 there is pretty much nothing new. There are bug fixes and a couple of little changes, but nothing like you would expect for major milestone.
In the last four or so years, front-end web development has become a lot more complicated. In 2010 to install a new Javascript library the instructions went along the lines of, “add this script tag to the head of your site to use” – now the instructions always mostly begin with, “Install Node.js then run npm install”
It is easy to get caught up in the new way of doing things, we often forget that not everyone is sure what to use or what they should be using to improve their front-end workflow.
If you are like many front-end web developers out there, you are most likely using some kind of front-end package management solution like Bower.
Recently whilst working on a project that required Bootstrap 3 (the SASS port) installed via Bower, I realised I needed to make some changes to buttons and fonts being used, the caveat of course being not editing the files within the bower_components folder itself, otherwise you can’t update them.
I absolutely love Gulp.js, I’ve all but used it as a replacement for Grunt as it feels a lot cleaner and requires significantly less configuration to get things happening.
Recently whilst installing Bootstrap and Font Awesome using Bower, I needed to copy the font files from the Bower package into the actual directory (because the bower_components won’t be on the live site and thus referencing the module files makes no sense).
I generally steer clear of writing reviews specifically for plugins, especially WordPress plugins. However, I felt compelled to write a review for Advanced Custom Fields v5 Pro because I have been using this plugin before there was even a pro version and you had to purchase addons separately (I had all of the addons). I couldn’t imagine my WordPress development workflow not using this plugin.
Elliot (the developer behind ACF) was kind enough to offer all existing customers who bought addons a free copy of Advanced Custom Fields v5 Pro, a developer licence which would have otherwise set me back $100 (way too cheap in my opinion).