Book Review: Ionic Cookbook
I’ve mentioned now multiple times that I’m a huge fan of “cookbook” style technical books. After I’ve learned the basics of a language, I love to see real, if small, examples of applications built in...
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Ionic/Cordova Demo: Where did I take that picture?
Every now and then I think of an idea for a cool (aka useless and pointless but fun) app that I think will take me one hour and let me grow my small little empire of demos. Sometimes those “quick...
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Swift goes open source, and loads of new resources
Yesterday was a big day for Swift developers – Apple announced the open source release of the Swift language. There’s a new home for this initiative, Swift.org, and the complete source for the language...
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Review: Destiny and Star Wars Battlefront
It isn’t Sunday but here are two video game reviews for you. Next will be Fallout 4 which should be at home within the week. Destiny: The Taken King I wasn’t planning on getting Destiny because every...
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Feeling bored? Want to hurt your brain a bit? Play the Advent of Code
I absolutely love code puzzles which is why I’m both happy – and pissed – that I discovered Advent of Code. Every day the site releases two Christmas-themed code puzzles (the second one is heavily...
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Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript – Options
For a while now I’ve used the Google Feed API to parse RSS feeds in JavaScript. It did a good job of converting various RSS flavors into a simple array of entries you could easily work with....
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Using Ionic Creator with MobileFirst 7.1
A few months ago I wrote a post discussing how to use IBM MobileFirst 7.1 with Ionic (Developing Ionic Apps with MobileFirst 7.1). Recently, the Ionic folks have done some darn good improvements to...
View ArticleDeals on my Cordova book and JavaScript videos
Just a quick note to let folks know about two deals regarding my content. First, you can get half off of my Apache Cordova book with the following code: dotd121615au. Other books are included in that...
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My first extension for Visual Studio Code – CSSLint
Well, it took a while, but I finally got around to writing my first extension for Visual Studio Code. As I’ve said a few times recently, VS Code is my new favorite editor now that Brackets seems to be...
View ArticleA quick example of the Ionic Loading Widget
One of the things I love most about Ionic is how rapidly you can build applications. Many of the cooler features are simple things that can be quickly implemented for an easy win. I like easy wins....
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Review: Star Wars – The Force Awakens
Normally I wait till Sunday to do non-tech posts, but with the memory of the film still burning bright in my mind from last night, I thought I’d write it up today. The first of this review will be...
View ArticleIs your Ionic View title not updating?
Ok, so I run into this once a month or so. I’m writing this just so I can – hopefully – remember it this time. This isn’t a bug or anything in Ionic – but I’m wondering if it should be documented a bit...
View ArticleArticle: A Review of JavaScript Error Monitoring Services
Just a quick note to say that the Telerik Developer Network has published me again: A Review of JavaScript Error Monitoring Services. As usual, please post any comments there, not here.
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My Year
Ok, so technically the year isn’t done yet, but I was inspired by Nic Raboy’s post (My Activity Report for 2015) to go ahead and post a summary. I figure posts like these really aren’t that popular,...
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Books I Read in 2015
Yep, another lame, non-tech post. Sorry (not sorry). Today’s post is my list of books read in 2015. I record my books via Goodreads which has a set of widgets that – in theory – I could use – but every...
View ArticleFavorite Media in 2015
Following up on my previous non-tech/just for fun posts (Books I Read in 2015 and My Year), here is my favorite media of 2015. This was originally going to be my favorite music of the year, but I...
View ArticleAnother year, another WordPress issue
Thanks to a reader (thanks Theo!) I’ve discovered that there is a problem with the latest WordPress install and my blog. If you try to access a URL and get an infinite redirection loop, please let me...
View ArticleSpeaking on Ionic in NYC Next Week
Live in NYC? Want to hear me speak about Ionic services? Want to just heckle me instead? Come check out my presentation to the Ionic NYC meetup group next Wednesday: Ionic Services – Raymond Camden...
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Playing with StrongLoop – Building a Blog – Part One
This year I’ve decided I’m going to write the hell out of some Node code. That’s both good and bad. It means I’ll be learning more and more about Node as a side effect but on the flip side, I’ll...
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