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Getting Started with Ionic, Part 3
In my previous post, we did things that really didn’t utilize any device features. In this post, we are going to use two native device features: email and phone. Let’s get started by installing the email plugin. ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-email-composer
npm install –save @ionic-native/email-composer Using this plugin can be a little tricky. We have…
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DPL Reading List – February 2, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That’s Not Good News – “Perfectionism is a misleading trait. It promises meticulousness, hard work, and dedication but, although it can deliver motivation and performance, also delivers mental health difficulties. Our research suggests that perfectionism is increasing….
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Vogon Poetry Review – Azure Service Fabric
On January 24th, Doug spoke at our Vogon Poetry Reading about Azure Service Fabric. This technology is something that we are very bullish on as the future of hosting. Why do we like “the Fabric”? The programming model closer mimics how we currently write software. Reliability / scalability is basically baked into the fabric. Azure…
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DPL Reading List – January 26, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future – “Inside is an 1,800-square foot mini-market packed with shelves of food that you can find in a lot of other convenience stores – soda, potato chips, ketchup. It also has some food…
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Getting Started with Ionic, Part 2
In my first Ionic blog post, we just got started creating a simple app using Ionic. In this post, we are going to create a simple application that is a basic contact manager. To speed this along, we are going to build off of what we started in part 1. The first change is ironically…
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DPL Reading List – January 19, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Making of Apple’s Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life – “…I would suggest to any designer looking for their reason to get up in the morning to find their humble mentor, or be one, and get on…
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Getting Started with Ionic, Part 1
There are many strategies to building mobile applications. Some people prefer to go the 100% native route, writing their applications in Swift / Java. Others like to use Xamarin and write one application in C#. There are yet still some that just write a single website that works well in mobile. In this article, we…
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DPL Reading List – January 12, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Using thought to control machines – “These questions are not urgent. But the bigger story is that neither are they the realm of pure fantasy. Technology changes the way people live. Beneath the skull lies the next frontier.” Exclusive: What Fitbit’s…
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SOLID, Part 5: Dependency Inversion Principle
In this five-part series, I’m covering each design principle laid out in SOLID. In this final post, I am covering the dependency inversion principle. The “D” in SOLID is a pretty well understood principle. It is supported by a variety of platforms, including Angular. The code below shows how it is implemented using Angular. The…
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DPL Reading List – January 5, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Apple’s Legendary Lisa Operating System Is Coming to Your Desktop for Free – “Lisa was a cutting-edge machine and one of the first to offer consumers a GUI, mouse, and file system, but it was prohibitively expensive and didn’t catch on….
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