Occasional musings on software development, tech, the Middle East, and anything else.
I typically review a fair amount of Angular code at work. One thing I typically encourage is using plain Observable s in an Angular Component, and using AsyncPipe ( foo | async ) from the template html to handle subscription, rather than directly subscribing to an observable in a component TS file. Subscribing in Components Unless you know a subscription you're starting in a component is very…
Microsoft recently announced the launch of Office for iPad . Many people took note about the pricing model behind Office for iPad: the apps are free to download, and the user can open and view documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for free, but must pay for an Office 365 subscription to edit these files. Many have taken notice. At Microsoft, the move to a subscription-based model has been…
On Twitter, @AnonymousIRC claims to have been responsible for bringing the * .mit.edu network down for a few hours last night in protest of MIT's legal "back-and-forth" with Aaron Swartz. Later on they went on to 'hack' two sub-domains in the MIT network (the "Cogeneration Project" and an RLE site, seemingly they just picked two random ones easy to break) posting a message about Aaron. Here are…
