Test automation live-blog

Wrote a test for live blog where it checks the functionality of the expand button. 

Also dabbled some in Scala implicit conversions, hence the many files being changed. Good for Scala adepts to take a look and see that I am not doing anything crazy...
Yep, was told to add it as apparently it does somethings compile time rather run time which is good for performance. Not neccessary in our case but the cost for adding it, here, is virtually nothing