How many of your friends and family come over and want to use your wifi? For me, It would take me a while to count all of the people who I have given access to my wifi connection. Usually I just give them the password when they come over or type it in for them without thinking twice.
Of all of the people who have used my wifi connection, they all have the details saved so they can connect later without asking for the password again. This is why I like the Wifi Sense feature in Windows 10 because it mitigates the need to share my wifi password with anyone.
Lets be honest. There are developers who love all of the additional styling for forms, typography and widgets that come with Bootstrap and there are those who absolutely despise everything Bootstrap has and stands for, with exception (for most) the great grid system.
Recently I wanted to use the Bootstrap grid system but without having to use Bootstrap itself. While Bootstrap does offer the ability to customise your download, if you are like me and you use JSPM or Bower for managing stuff like this or you use Git sub-modules, then including just a stylesheet file into your project isn’t the most ideal approach.
Geronimo Jerky is a small Brisbane based company that produce beef jerky. At the helm is The Big Chief aka Mark Hoyle, who moved to Australia from the USA 20 years ago, bringing with him an authentic native American family recipe for jerky.
Their slogan is, “The best beef jerky you’ve ever tasted” it is a pretty big claim to make, so does Geronimo’s jerky live up to the claim?
If you are currently working with the Aurelia Javascript framework, then you would know that every so often given the not-so-beta nature of the framework, a new update comes out for one or more of the framework components.
This article is specifically for Jspm users, updating dependencies in Webpack and RequireJS applications uses Npm instead of Jspm.
If you’re not staying up-to-date for each update, it is possible to fall behind. While you might assume that jspm update would work. Sometimes if you’re updating an older code-base, the newer code can and possibly will break your application using update.
Leading off from my previous post about swapping variable values, I thought I would write a follow-up post on how to reverse a string in Javascript. Surprisingly in Javascript there is no native means of reversing a string (I guess there are very few situations where you would need to do that).
This is not going to be an exercise in code golfing. In-fact, I am only going to show you 3 different ways to reverse a string (although there are potentially tens of different ways to do it). My preference is the first solution using Array.reverse, but pick whatever suits your needs.
While most developers will probably never encounter a situation where they’ll need to swap two integer values without a third variable unless you’re heavily into code golf.
While novel and impractical for most purposes, it can be nice to improve your problem solving skills and learn new things by solving problems without choosing the most obvious solution.
A little bit of trivia: I was actually asked to swap two integer values in a technical interview once-upon-a-time. So you never know if you find yourself going for a front-end development position and you’re asked during the coding test to swap two integer values without a third variable.
Life on the front-end side of the development tracks can be an exercise in patience and learning endurance. When it comes to front-end package managers, there is definitely no lack of choices.
In this article I will be focusing on two of the hottest front-end tools: JSPM and Webpack. With Jspm coming to providence thanks to Angular 2 and Aurelia and Webpack being the preference of a large number of React developers.
As much as I love my new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, it does suffer from some bad performance issues at times. Even playing non graphically intensive games or applications can produce noticeable lag.
While the hardware in the phone is definitely not sub-par, a certain feature on Samsung phones since Jellybean called Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) can have an effect on the phones performance.
Without going into too greater detail, DVFS causes the phone to scale down CPU performance to prevent the phone from getting too hot. The more power being consumed, the more heat generated. As a result, the phone will encounter lag when playing a 3D intensive game or CPU intensive application.
As Javascript slowly becomes a less salty language thanks in part to ECMAScript 2015 (formerly ES6) amd ECMAScript 2016 (formerly ES7), the question of whether to choose a superset of the Javascript language or write POJ (Plain Old Javascript) is a question we need to ask ourselves.
My experience with TypeScript is rather minimal, whilst investigating Javascript frameworks a few months ago I used TypeScript for a little while to get a feel for it and see what it would offer me in terms of workflow and efficiency. The fact the project would be built in .NET which means using Visual Studio 2013 was also a point towards TypeScript (of which Visual Studio fully supports).
You’re probably aware of Facebook’s pride image overlay effect which allows you to add a gay pride flag overlay on your Facebook profile image. Today we are going to be recreating this incredibly simple effect, three different ways. First we will do it the Facebook way, followed by a couple of other approaches.
To demonstrate the effect I have created three Codepen’s so you can see the effect in action and fittingly used a picture of Donald Trump and his son to demonstrate the pride effect.