In 2014 Sony announced Project Morpheus a virtual reality headset in the same vain as Oculus Rift. Throughout the last year Sony has remained coy about whether or not Morpheus would even go beyond an experimental stage. At GDC 2015, we got our answer. Sony is going balls deep on Project Morpheus. Impressive updated specs on the well-designed headset and the startling revelation that the Playstation 4 console can do 120 frames per second the headset needs.
Before we proceed, I want you to read this news.com.au story by a guy named Peter Baines who runs a charity called Hands Across The Water. Aptly titled, “Why giving money to charity makes you a tool” As click-baiting as the title is, the story is partially about those who give money to charity but not much else. Baines then goes onto to make the point that people should be doing more than just donating money because it supposedly makes you a tool.
The only browser to support the BroadcastChannel API is Firefox 38 (at the time of writing this) which isn’t slated for release until May, 2015. If you are using Firefox Developer Edition, then you already have support for the BroadcastChannel API and you can start playing around with it now. This new API opens up a world of possibilities, working around inherent limitations in the existing postMessage API we already have. The BroadcastChannel API is part of the WHATWG living HTML standard which can be seen here.
The Translink Go Card is the preferred choice for public transport in South East Queensland. An RFID touch-on/touch-off card and a series of card readers on train station platforms, buses, City Cycle and ferries. Originally plagued with implementation issues that almost saw provider Cubic sued for the delays and widespread problems the Go Card rollout faced, the network is in a much more stable state these days. With paper tickets for some zones almost costing double the price in comparison to a Go Card fare, the incentive to own and use a Go Card is very high.
If you were a startup trying to get an MVP out the door in 2010, admittedly you probably used or considered Ruby on Rails. In 2015 you are probably more than likely going to opt for Node.js instead. But why? Once upon a time it seemed as if Ruby on Rails was destined for global dominance. Twitter was originally built on top of it before moving for scalability and performance reasons, but many companies still use Ruby on Rails.
I have been doing some development work in the online advertising space lately and as a result of it, I have become more mindful of which sites I block advertisements on and which sites I do not block advertisements on. Nobody likes advertisements and while I still use Adblock Plus to block ads for a lot of sites, I do it in a more polite manner than most. If a site offers value to me, I find the content great and it is free, I disable Adblock on the site. It is a small gesture that goes a long way.
React.js is the greatest thing to happen to front-end development in a long time. It is fast, it allows us to break our application into bite-sized chunks and has a tiny learning curve. In this article we will be using ECMAScript 6 classes to write our React.js components. This means they will be easier to read and look nicer, even if they are prototypical inheritance syntactical sugar. Before we begin I want to preface this article with: this is not a crash course on how to use React.js.
If you don’t vaccinate your kids you should be given two choices and these two choices only: Have your kids taken off of you and put into custody of the state. You should then attend a court hearing where you might face numerous charges ranging from jeopardising the health of your children and the health of other children to abuse. Or… You can vaccinate your children, not be fined/sent to jail, keep your children and stop being a fucking idiot. The arguments of some of these “anti-vaccination” loonies range from; the vaccination will give my kid a disability, vaccinations are against my religious beliefs, we have immune systems that can fight things like this and the really crazy: the Government are putting things in vaccines to try and control us because of a New World Order conspiracy to reduce the population.
Recently I encountered an issue in Firefox whilst attempting to login into my Twitter. Even though my login details were correct, I was not able to login. No error message, nothing. My first thought was Twitter was to blame, but it turns out it was my Firefox. I also noticed on other sites this weird login issue was happening as well. When I would try and login to 99designs, I encountered a strange redirection loop.
ANZ bank have fraud protection that they call Falcon. Essentially the goal of it is to prevent fraudulent transactions taking place on your credit cards and in my case, my Visa debit card connected to my savings account. Nice idea in theory, but in my case, annoying and wrong. It all began when I received a suspicious text message claiming my card had been suspended due to a security concern to prevent unauthorised usage. At first I thought it was a scam, so I called ANZ and sure enough, it was the real deal (the number it came from was +61427042684).