Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs
From: Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel
Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the plans.
This doesn’t surprise me, and could work out well (hell Apple have done this before coming from PowerPC), I would expect the first models to be a low end / thin MacBook, mayhap the replacement for the MacBook Air which seems to be being strung out forever!
The BBC says it’s being squeezed out by Netflix and Amazon
The BBC says it’s being squeezed out by Netflix and Amazon:
Their business models and huge budgets mean we are increasingly being squeezed out of an ever more competitive environment. British creativity and British content are now under real threat.
No brit wants to see an establishment like the Beeb squeeze out and suffer, but just ask Blockbuster Video and Toys’R’Us, you have to change with the times.
But, the BBC and iPlayer have good content, and one thing that Netflix and Amazon are proving is that people are prepared to pay for content, so there is a market?
Xamarin announce UrhoSharp 3D Framework version 1.8
From: https://blog.xamarin.com/…
Been a while coming but Xamarin have pushed version 1.8 of Urhosharp, the .net binding to the Urho 3D engine. This allows use across iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows applications. Looking forward to giving this a play, especially the ARKit and ARCore Augmented Reality options for mobile.
Add Languages to Your Xamarin Apps with Multilingual App Toolkit
From: Add Languages to Your Xamarin Apps with Multilingual App Toolkit | Xamarin Blog
One of the things that near every mobile, desktop and web developer takes for granted is the words that their creation outputs. Don’t get me wrong, most developers can spend their entire careers not having to worry about localisation, and they can just throw local language words into the system as needed and move on.
But what if you don’t always have local audience, simple things like the word ‘Submit’ on the button need to be translated, quick win might be to copy the UI Views and then change the words, but what for your next locale, and the next, what happens if the client decides to reword that, yo have to change it, four times, five, six …… Arrrrrgghh, unmanageable.
This can be a challenge with only one or two additional languages, but becomes daunting very quickly as more languages are added.
Enter localisation, and a solution for C# and Xamarin Mobile Apps is the Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) Sure, it requires some thought and effort to setup, and definitely one that’s easier from the off that implementing mid project, but once in place it’s really easy to add a new language to your application.
Read the full article over at the Xamarin Blogs and decide for yourself.
Wirelessly deploying to an iOS to tvOS device
Feel my pain, we have an Apple TV in the office which runs a dashboard app that we knocked up, however the physical device is in the roof space, behind the TV, and about 10m of cable run from my Mac, the motivators to ‘do a quick update’ are low.
One thing most developers consistently do during app development is deploy to a testing device. One main drawback during this process is the struggle to find a cable, connect it to a computer, plug it into a device, and then finally deploy the app.
Looking forward to trying this, see how it works in reality, ask again later!
Full Article At: Lose the Cables: Make Deploying to an iOS or tvOS Device Easier | Xamarin Blog
Nigel Owens On What Referees Are Set To Clamp Down On For The Six Nations
Hmm, cracking down on things, like;
We will be stronger on crooked feeds at the scrum…
Pretty sure the rest of us in grass roots land do that every weekend, how about;
If someone charges into a ruck, leading with the shoulder and strikes the head it is pretty much always a red card…
Yup, that one’s in the laws of the game too. The other points have merit, but just goes to prove there’s still a secret law book for the elite game that differs from the one I’m given!
Nigel Owens On What Referees Are Set To Clamp Down On For The Six Nations:
Gone nuts? >> Nutella ‘riots’ spread across French supermarkets
I know the kids love it, but face it it’s basically brown, flavoured vegetable oil, always thought the French had better culinary tastes than this, filing under WTF!
Nutella ‘riots’ spread across French supermarkets – BBC News:
Camels banned from Saudi beauty contest over Botox – BBC News
Every day the world get’s a little bit weirder, but I think this takes the biscuit!
Twelve prized camels have been disqualified from a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia after their owners tried to tweak their good looks with Botox.
Camels banned from Saudi beauty contest over Botox – BBC News:
Thank you – the only words as a parent you should say to the coach? – more thoughts
I shared this earlier in the week, but thought I’d give this a little more reflection. At the end of the day in the majority of cases the coaches are unpaid volunteers, these are just people that want to help.
What this doesn’t mean is they are the best at the role, and quite often they are the only ones who will take it on. First ones there, last ones to leave, giving up more time and personal costs for coaching courses, first aid courses, red tape courses – all trying to be the best they can be, even if they aren’t the best (and most of us never claim to be).
I’m lucky that I have a team of volunteers to share my workload, all as enthusiastic as me, and pretty much have a good balance of skills and abilities between us to cover all that we need – so the kids win, but some groups are not as lucky.
So yes, please say thank you, or better yet say thank you, and ask if we need any help, and do what you can too – and to my co-coaches ‘Thank You’
Source: Thank you – the only words as a parent you should say to the coach? – Working with Parents in Sport