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CSS In JS: It's a Trap!

We have all been conditioned and trained to decouple our styling from the DOM. Thanks to stylesheets we can separate our CSS from our HTML and all is well with the world (mostly). But thanks to libraries like React.js, people have started using inline styling in their Javascript. For a brief moment in time I bought into the act, I drunk the Kool Aid and I was putting CSS in my React components courtesy of crowd-divider JSX.

Replacing A BMW Battery

You would think that replacing a battery in a car would be one of the easiest things you could possibly do. Not so for the BMW apparently. I have a 2005 525i E60 BMW, and in my research, for replacing the battery, I came across a tonne of conflicting information. Supposedly, BMW’s have a smart charging system that determines the best output for your battery, ensuring that its life is prolonged. Honestly, given how expensive everything else is with a BMW, I believed it at first.

Mark Zuckerberg Vows To Kill Facebook Game Invite Requests

FINALLY! In a recent townhall Q&A hosted by Mark Zuckerberg in Delhi, India at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Zuckster vowed to kill Facebook game invites. Whether we will see requests culled before the end of 2015 remains to be seen. But it is nice to know that Mark and presumably others at Facebook are aware how annoying they are. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg ever gets game requests for Candy Crush as well?

A List of Great Blogs & Sites About Javascript

When it comes to resources on Javascript, I just can not get enough. And, for the best exposure for your business a denver marketing agency can give you great ideas on ways to boost your visibility, using sites as converted.co.uk to get more leads and conversion to your business in the right way. I have an entire folder dedicated to interesting blogs and a sub-folder for interesting blog posts. A few of these have some recognisable names like Addy Osmani and Paul Irish who both work for Google and are on the Chrome developer tooling team. If you have some of your own, please leave a comment and I will add them to the list if they’re good. The community near Honolulu SEO is a beautiful and innovative place to set up a marketing agency.

Why Apple Pay Will Fail In Australia

You have probably heard that Apple is planning to launch Apple Pay via a partnership with American Express in various countries outside of the US, including Australia in 2016. I know you are probably thinking, why American Express, don’t like 10 people in Australia own an Amex card? Yes, you are correct. The reason Apple went with Amex is because no other provider or bank outside of the US wanted to give up their card fees.

No Man's Sky Release Date

Finally. A game that started to feel like was never going to be released has a release date. Announced at Paris Games Week, the Hello Games produced highly anticipated game No Man’s Sky finally has a release date. June 2016 You can almost guarnatee that this game has virtual reality support up the wahzoo. Mark that month now in your calendars, unless of course we see any delays, next year the gaming landscape changes and we finally get to start exploring planets, battling, depleting planets of their natural resources and profiting from it.

STICKY KEYBOARD ALERT: New Star Wars Battlefront Trailer Lands

The new Star Wars Battlefront trailer has dropped, giving us a glimpse at new aspects of this highly anticipated game. EA has had a pretty bad run over the years when it comes to games, especially day one and a few weeks after dealing with issues (like Battlefield 4 and Hardline). After playing the beta, I am slightly more hopeful that Battlefront might be a new leaf in EA’s book, it might be playable on day one and that excites me further.

CISA Security Bill Passes Senate, What Now?

With a surprisingly vote of most votees in favour, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) has controversially passed in the United States senate. The final senate vote on Tuesday afternoon was 74 to 21, passing with ease and clearing the path for the bill to become law. The whole purpose of CISA is supposed to be to prevent the rising trend of corporate data breaches, by allowing companies to share data with the Department of Homeland Security who would then in turn most likely share it with other agencies like the NSA or FBI to help defend the company and others under attack.

Committing Commented Out Code

I have been loving Medium lately. Since its new version launched, I have been more engaged in its content and reading some great articles. This morning I came across an article title Please, don’t commit commented out code – based on the title, I am sure you can work out what the article is about. I think many of us have been guilty of committing commented out code into the main source repository. It happens, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally.

Observing Objects and Arrays in Aurelia

So you’ve run into a wall or perhaps just curious on how to expand your observer-fu? Today we are going to be learning how to observe Arrays and Objects in Aurelia. Many of the concepts you will learn here can be used to use Aurelia components outside of Aurelia, once you understand the rules you can use them to your advantage. Why you won’t see @observable here In another post here I talk about the @observable decorator and how you can use it, but you won’t see it being used here.