Amazon sales some decent little tablets called the Amazon Fire 7", add one of there decent kids cases and the tablet is great for letting the kids use for a ereader, comics, games, notes, Zork, and many other tasks that a normal Android compatible touch screen devices can do. All for the grand total of… Continue reading Amazon Tablets - Jailbreaking / Rooting
MySQL SSL required connection Ubuntu solutions
I went to implement MySQL replication for a client this evening and ran into some interesting issues that I haven't ran into before. Guess it has been a while since I had to set it up for a client. So this post is for notes for me or someone else who might need to do… Continue reading MySQL SSL required connection Ubuntu solutions
NativeScript 2.4.0 - New Features
Some of you might have seen the all New version 2.4.0 has been released today. This has been a release that has taken a bit of time to get right, but it is finally out! Wooo Hoooo!!! Some of the new features NativeScript Workers Per-Side borders Flexbox layout Android Snapshots on Release build (faster app… Continue reading NativeScript 2.4.0 - New Features
NativeScript - Professional post series
I've been doing NativeScript for a while; and since I'm a contractor/freelancer; and no specific company pays my salary -- I've decided to start putting some of my cool learned tips into the paid category. Most of these will only qualify if they took me multiple hours to figure out. Unfortunately nobody pays me for… Continue reading NativeScript - Professional post series
NativeScript - Workers
One of the best new features in the brand new 2.4.0 release of NativeScript is WebWorkers. For those who have seen me around in the community; you will probably all know how long I have been harassing the NativeScript Core Teams to get this done (Since Aug of 2015). I even went so far as… Continue reading NativeScript - Workers
NativeScript Testing: Developer Days Video
I just noticed my video from my presentation was released. This was the presentation that I did at #NativeScript Developer Day in Sept of 2016. The subject was Testing your NativeScript app and dealt with both Unit Testing and End to End testing. I saw a couple of "um" mistakes. I "um" need to… Continue reading NativeScript Testing: Developer Days Video
NativeScript Testing: End to End
I got to give a talk on NativeScript testing to a great group of people at NativeScript Developer Days. Despite my silly technical problems at the beginning, we managed to get back on track and I was able to present all the critical information that was needed to get everyone up and running. I… Continue reading NativeScript Testing: End to End
NativeScript: iOS and xCode 8 the wonderful world of breaking changes
For those who have upgraded to the all new xCode 8, you may have noticed some of the plugins breaking... The biggest breaking change in NativeScript and xCode 8 is now things deep down in the ObjC runtime that used to be a function call are now a property. So, for example let say you… Continue reading NativeScript: iOS and xCode 8 the wonderful world of breaking changes
NativeScript Testing: Unit Testing
I got to give a talk on NativeScript testing to a great group of people at NativeScript Developer Days. Despite my silly technical problems at the beginning, we managed to get back on track and I was able to present all the critical information that was needed to get everyone up and running. I did… Continue reading NativeScript Testing: Unit Testing
NativeScript Developer Days
Well, we just finished the Conference yesterday! Thanks for everyone coming out; I enjoyed meeting a ton of you. And I hope everyone had a great conference. For NativeScript being released as a Beta to the world 18 months ago; they had a large turn out. In fact the Angular Native sessions… Continue reading NativeScript Developer Days