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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is no disputing the fact Steve Jobs was a highly accomplished man. While he did not do it alone, he was instrumental in turning Apple around and making it the most valuable company in the world. He saw what nobody else could see at Apple and he knew what kind of people he needed to make it happen. Even years after his death, Apple shows no signs of slowing down and continues to hold more money than most first-world government treasuries.
Fresh off the heels of the controversial documentary series Struggle Street comes SBS’s latest foray into niche and insightful documentaries: Kebab Kings. There is nothing Australians love more than a kebab. If you have ever gone out on a Friday or Saturday night drinking, there is a good chance you have found yourself gracing the interior of a kebab store at 2am in the morning. They put cameras in a couple of busy kebab stores they call “Australia’s busiest” and recorded what happened in the month before Christmas.
One of my favourite and lesser known additions to CSS is position: sticky which essentially allows you to create an element that snaps at a specified position of the page to the top of the screen. At present, support for position: sticky is relatively non-existent according to caniuse. The desktop browsers that currently have this implemented are Firefox and Safari. But thankfully there are some great polyfills out there for this, the one I have found to be the more performant polyfill is by the Filament Group.
When it comes to building a web application, nothing causes more confusion than working out how to structure it (besides what to name things, of course). In the beginning, it is easy enough to just throw all of your code into the root of the src directory without a care in the world. But as the complexity of your application grows and subsequently its size, this approach fails. I have been working on a large-scale Aurelia application for about 6 months now and have a structure that has allowed me to move quickly without worrying about clutter or where to put everything.