Recently there was some pretty tragic terrorist attacks in Paris which I am sure heard about and probably saw being shared around on Facebook.
Approximately 140 people were tragically killed, with hundreds more injured to varying degree. Even days after the event you would be hard-pressed to find a media outlet (online, print and TV) not talking about what happened in Paris.
In a show of solidarity the Sydney Opera House lit up in the colours of the French flag and Facebook made it so you could overlay the French flag on-top of your profile image (similar to what they did with the gay pride filter).
Yes, this is really happening.
Aurelia has officially put out its first beta release dubbed beta 1. Just a little over a week ago the team put out a pre-beta release and now we have our hands on an official beta as promised.
As an added bonus, the Aurelia team has also beaten the Angular 2 team to the punch and released to beta first, even though Angular 2 has been in development considerably longer. It goes to show a small agile team can do great things (like release faster).
By default Windows 10 will automatically download and install updates without telling you. While this sounds nice in theory, by default it will also restart your computer after installing updates as well.
I like to leave my computer on over night, whether it be because of a torrent I am downloading or I am uploading large amounts of files to DropBox. This is an annoying default setting.
Fortunately we have the option to be notified that updates have been installed and asked to reset (sort of like how it was during the Windows 7 days).
The calm before the awesome storm? Rob and the rest of the Aurelia team have put out a pre-beta release which is action packed with a heap of new features, API refinements and tonnes of bug fixes.
The reason for a pre-beta is due to the fact Aurelia relies on Babel for its tooling and the recent release of Babel broke some things in Aurelia, so while those issues are being addressed the team wanted to put out a release with some of the latest bugfixes and additions to the framework.
If you read the Australian news every so often, then you would know that we are currently going through an ice epidemic. If you’re not familiar, Ice is slang for crystal methamphetamine or crystal meth.
Is Breaking Bad to blame? Who knows. However, recently I was playing Card Wars on my Samsung Galaxy S6 and the following popped up. I couldn’t help but laugh, I wonder if Cartoon Network realises how wrong this could be interpreted?
A few months ago I backed the Remix Mini project on Kickstarter, which was a massive success. Initially just looking for a modest $50k, Jide ended up raising more than $1.5 million.
I backed the $80 early bird tier which got me 2 x 2G Remix Mini Android PC’s with 16gb of storage (although some is taken by the OS).
The whole premise of the Remix Mini is to offer a fully featured Android powered PC (which is tiny) at a really low cost, running on a forked version of Android 5.1 aptly called Remix OS. Comparatively, there is nothing else out there like this.
Just short of a year ago, Microsoft announced anyone who had a paid Office 365 Home or Personal subscription would get unlimited cloud storage on its Dropbox competitor OneDrive as part of the subscription.
Then yesterday Microsoft announced that it had decided not to offer unlimited storage. The reasoning will make you laugh.
Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average.
One of the much-promised features coming in the ECMAScript 2016 specification was Object.observe. It promised us the ability to watch objects for changes and react accordingly, akin to two-way binding found in frameworks like Angular 1.x.
However, Adam Klein one of three people responsible for introducing the idea of Object.observe is withdrawing the proposal from TC39 which is currently at stage 2 in the process and also hopes to remove it from V8 (Chrome’s Javascript engine) by the end of the year.
Does it ever feel like everyday we are being told some food that we absolutely love is killing us?
You can take away the cigarettes, you can chop down an entire rainforest in search of some rare strain of berry that only rich people can afford, but don’t you dare touch my bacon.
Recently the World Health Organisation also known as The Fun Food Police announced that there is overwhelming evidence that bacon and other various types of processed meat can contribute to colorectal cancer.
I used to use Diffmerge for my merge/comparison needs, however I find the outdated interface to be unfriendly and ugly to look at.
On Windows I use Sourcetree and Beyond Compare works without integration, it shows up in the appropriate dropdowns but on Mac it does not. I don’t understand why Sourcetree on Mac is different to Windows, but anyway.
Fortunately, Sourcetree makes it easy to use third party comparison tools even if they are not in the dropdowns.