So about 10 months ago, I put in an issue for adding threads/workers to NativeScript. I realized early on this was a major feature that is missing. 10 months later, I still have that same opinion; the only real major feature NativeScript is really missing is background threads. For a lot of projects this won't… Continue reading NativeScript and WebWorkers/Threads
Please note these are how to install the newest pre-release; based on my experience with the current nightly pre-release masters available at http://nativescripts.rocks. The first thing you MUST do is upgrade your NativeScript Command Line utility, first. The easist way is to do a: npm remove nativescript -g Yes, we need to de-install the current… Continue reading Upgrading to NativeScript v.Next (From pre-release nightly masters)
For those who would like to live on the bleeding edge; I have started the process of having one of my servers build each of the different NativeScript repo's nightly from the master branch. You can now download any of these from NativeScript.rocks. Currently done are: NativeScript Common/Core Library NativeScript Command Line Interface NativeScript TypeScript… Continue reading NativeScript Nightly Masters
[[ A updated version of this post has been posted for NativeScript v1.5+ and icon fonts here. ]] Since the subject of Fonts has been causing issues for multiple people in the NativeScript community I figured I would write up a post on how to do it. Attached to this post is the completed project. … Continue reading Fonter - A Simple NativeScript Font Application for iOS and Android
Over the last couple years I have played around with several DLNA servers and other media servers on my own network. I like to eliminate the physical media and make it as simple as possible to listen to my favorite music or watch a video from anywhere in my dwelling. Since I have… Continue reading DLNA Servers with Passwordable Folders
Update: There is a relevant update for this in a new post. Over a year ago; one of my co-workers bench marked several compression libraries and since then we have been using library called jslzjb by Bear. This is on a un-released product and we currently use it almost constantly on a wide variety of… Continue reading Data Compression Revisited
Colt McAnlis posted a very interesting blog post (http://mainroach.blogspot.com/2013/08/json-compression-transpose-binary.html) this evening on using Transposing to reduce the JSON data size; his post was right on the money. We have been using a similar technique for a couple years now. (Although, we use a different compression method over websocket as gzip is too expensive in pure… Continue reading Transforming JavaScript JSON