Recently I bought a MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display and the first thing I wanted to do was connect my Casio CTK-800 keyboard to it and use it with Garageband just like I saw in this epic video where these guys jammed out on such a retro set up! source – http://progamerreview.com/
The driver for Mac OS can be found here and even though it specifically states versions 10.7 and 10.8, it will work on 10.9 and presumably later versions of Mac OS when they’re released.
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of Bono laughing uncontrollably as he counts the reported one hundred million dollars his band U2 were paid by Apple in exchange for releasing their latest album Songs Of Innocence to all 500 million iTunes members for free, as part of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus announcement.
If you have an iTunes account, you’ve been “gifted” the album from U2, congratulations. Whether you want it or not, it’s there right in your iTunes account, enjoy.
When it comes to front-end development, it is a relatively new job title. The advent of responsive web design or as the hipsters call it RWD, meant more emphasis was placed on making coherent front-end user experiences across different devices and mediums.
Even though web development has been a thing since the nineties, you once upon a time called yourself a web developer and it was rare you specialise in just the front-end aspect.
That is the question. While researching a potential MacBook purchase, the one question I had but could not find a definitive and up-to-date answer is: Can you play DOTA 2 realiably on a MacBook and if so, what models?
I am not a big gamer, but I do like to play the occasional game of Dota 2 where I can. I usually play on PC, but I will be travelling, so I had to get a laptop.
When it comes to finding freelance development work, Freelancer.com seems to be the best choice out there. I have had pretty good success with it, despite the fact I keep getting undercut by outsource operations willing to build whole websites for $100.
One thing that really bothers me about Freelancer.com is the fact withdrawals are broken.
The first frustrating thing for new time users is the fact your first withdrawal is held for two weeks. This is presumably a security thing and subsequent withdrawals you do not have to wait to be processed. I can kind of understand this, but wouldn’t it be easier and more secure to ask users to just confirm their identities instead of holding the funds for a made-up period of time?
This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now, but like many, have not had the time. Someone has created a WordPress Plugin boilerplate which gives you a nice little start when creating a WordPress plugin.
As anyone who has modified an existing plugin or created their own plugin for WordPress knows, there is no right or wrong way to do it. You can write it solely procedurally, object oriented or you can intertwine and mix both. The result is never pretty and I have seen a lot of bad plugins out there.
I wouldn’t really call them proper PSD’s, but Apple has released a Photoshop PSD files for its latest models of iPhone, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
If you just need some simplistic images of the devices to add in marketing shots, that is all you will be able to do with them. They’re more for mockups than they are proper development as Apple doesn’t want people moving other elements around, presumably to keep integrity in the design intact or something like that.
This is an interesting question I have been asked about a few times now and it appears many developers are confused what the answer is. Long story short: Yes, you should commit your composer.lock file.
The composer.lock file is a build metadata file that specifies exact versions of dependencies in your Composer project. It means if someone else in the team pulls down your code, they will get the exact same versions specified.
I recently moved to a Mac and one of the first things I did was install Homebrew, then setup all of my PHP projects, one of them being a Laravel project which uses Composer for dependencies.
Then I hit a snag telling my I had exhausted my allowed memory allocation in my php.ini file. Well, shit.
The exact message I got was:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.0.0-alpha8/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchNode.php on line 40
There are very few fonts in existence that incite rage and make you appear unprofessional in any creative industry than Comic Sans. You hear of the hate quite regularly, but is the hate justified? What is it about Comic Sans that people hate so much?
Like all fonts, each one has a purpose. Originally Comic Sans was commissioned for use in Microsoft Bob, an early 90’s application for showing people how to use Windows applications. It’s specific use was for comic book style speech bubbles. It’s quite a fascinating and quick story behind one of the most notoriously known fonts in history.