Not content with the small Australian Netflix catalogue I set out to look for a solution to get access to the holy grail: the American Netflix catalogue. Coming in at an almost six times the size of the Australia catalogue, the Netflix US catalogue has everything. Because I consume Netflix via a set-top box, I set out to find a solution that would work with my Optus supplied Fetch TV box.
A few months ago I came across a site called Learnsauce. The premise is simple, they offer you source code and learning material for building a few clone applications like; A Soundcloud clone, Uber clone, Buzzfeed clone, Tinder clone and a few others. They also provide tutorials for web applications as well as doing things with Android and iOS modules. For a good while they were offering all of their site content for a monthly fee. I got a few awesome apps and learned a couple of things. But then recently that all changed when they started deceiving customers.
I love Airbnb. When I travelled to the US and Canada last year for my twiddy vacation on a beach house in the USA, everywhere in Canada we stayed in Airbnb places. The experience of booking is made a lot easier than reserving a room in a hotel or motel. But there is a problem with Airbnb. Baked into its very DNA, Airbnb has become such a large enterprise they have lost touch with their customers. For you see Airbnb is destroying property markets everywhere, especially in its hometown of San Francisco.
Sometimes it feels like we let the story of the Terminator movies control our emotions when it comes to artifical intelligence. As the world seemingly becomes more advanced, self-flying drones, self-driving cars and self everything some big names in science and technology have come out warning against the potential threat of AI. Stephen Hawking thinks artifical intelligence “could spell the end of the human race”, not equally as smart Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he doesn’t, “understand why some people are not concerned” in an AMA that he did on Reddit.
I love front-end development, but there is one thing about it that I do not particularly like: naming things. Using ID’s and classes on HTML elements and deciding what to name things in CSS is extremely hard. Even harder than solving cross-browser bugs. Proving how difficult naming in CSS is, there are numerous methodologies such as; SMACSS (Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS), BEM (Block Element Modifier), OOCSS (Object Oriented CSS), ACSS (Atomic CSS Architecture) and a few others.
Ladies and gentlemen get out your fire extinguishers, the Hayne Plane has crashed. The Australian media darling and former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been dropped from the San Francisco 49ers squad as the entire population of Australia goes into mourning. On Saturday Hayne lost his place on the squad in favour of promoted running back Kendall Gaskins from the practice squad. Essentially this means Hayne has been put on life support, his career with the 49ers is hanging in the balance. Hayne has been placed on waivers, during in which another NFL club can claim him for themselves, with priority given to the worst performing clubs.
Long live Soundwave. Seriously, I hate these death posts as much as anyone, but there is a slowly rotting corpse in the room we need to talk about: Soundwave Festival. Making its national debut in 2007, Soundwave Festival was a breath of fresh air. Finally a music festival that catered to the hard rock, metal loving younger and older generation. Soundwave Festival has been responsible for bring out the kind of bands no other festival would think of bringing.
I work with Bootstrap for its grid system from time to time. I sometimes need to add in custom styling using Bootstrap breakpoint sizes and the documentation for Bootstrap (at least version 3) is horrible. Extra small: xs – 480px Small: sm – 768px Medium: md – 992px Large: lg – 1200px Depending on whether or not you’re working mobile first, which in that case you would be using min-width and if you’re working from a breakpoint based responsive workflow you would be using max-width instead.
(seriously) If you’re like me you have a tonne of ideas in notebooks, random text documents on your computer and in your head. Sadly, not every idea is a winner. Here are some ideas that you should immediately put a red marker through if they are on your list. Another dating app Everyone thinks they have the answer to the problem of online dating. You do not. The dating space just like the travel space is highly competitive and larger more aggressive players will crush you like a cockroach.
If you’re like me, you’ve worked with Angular a lot or you are currently working with Angular and over time you have grown accustomed to its very concepts; controllers, directives, factories, providers and services. In Aurelia those concepts can exist, but not in the way you think. If you’re thinking of porting over an Angular 1.x application to Aurelia, below we will touch upon various concepts to make the transition as easy and seamless as possible.