At the moment Node.js is my web development language of choice, but occasionally I come across something that really grinds my gears. I sometimes find that I’ve fallen into an async hell that screws up a lot of things. For example, maybe I’ve designed an API endpoint that makes a few requests to ext...

Earlier this year (July), I wrote about my first year of blogging and the stats around it and I feel it was important because it was my first year. This time I’m going to write about my activity in 2015 and report the stats around it. The plan is to do this every year and possibly inspire other deve...

With all the buzz around NativeScript, I figured it was about time that I demonstrate how to access native features of a device without the use of any plugins. To start off slow I decided it might be convenient to see how to obtain the application version number and display it within the application...

Since the release of iOS 9, a ton of stress has been put on mobile developers because of forced changes that Apple put in place. The most common problem developers are facing resides in the App Transport Security (ATS) policies that Apple now requires when accessing insecure resources external from ...

To continue my sprint on Telerik NativeScript related topics, I figured it was time I talk about how to handle navigation to different routes or views within an application. With platforms such as React Native you would use a Navigator component and in platforms such as Ionic Framework you would use...

As I mentioned in some of my other posts, I’ve been exploring NativeScript by Telerik. So far it has proven to be a nifty platform and my attention is still invested. Previously when writing about similar technologies such as React Native and Ionic Framework, I explained how to make HTTP requests to...

It is no question that I am pretty familiar with Ionic Framework and Apache Cordova in general. I have a ton of blog articles, YouTube videos and even a beginner level course for Ionic Framework. However, lately I’ve been playing around with NativeScript by Telerik, a similar technology platform tha...

I’ve been doing a lot of NativeScript development lately because I’ve found it to be a pretty nifty platform. If you’re unfamiliar with NativeScript, it is similar to Ionic Framework and React Native in a sense that you can use JavaScript to build iOS and Android mobile applications. I previously wr...

Turns out I will be speaking at the Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) in Santa Clara, California on December 1st, 2015 to December 3rd, 2015. If you’re unfamiliar with AnDevCon, it is a big deal. It is probably one of the better, if not the best, development conferences focusing on everything ...

Previously I explained how to install WordPress on a Digital Ocean VPS Droplet. Now Digital Ocean isn’t for everyone because not everyone wants to manage their own sever. There is nothing wrong with this because there are easier solutions out there that will more than likely accomplish what you need...

There are a lot of blogs out there on the internet and many on the topic of hybrid mobile app development. By hybrid mobile app development I am talking about technologies like Apache Cordova, Phonegap, Ionic Framework, and React Native. Basically all the technologies for building applications using...

Recently I started fiddling with NativeScript from Telerik because I’ve been hearing a lot about it when I attend various developer conferences. If you’re unfamiliar with NativeScript, it is a cross platform mobile development framework similar to Ionic Framework and React Native. The difference bei...

I was at an event not too long ago where someone recommended I take a look at PassportJS for my Node.js applications. In case you’re unfamiliar with PassportJS, it is an authentication middleware that makes it easy to work with logins, whether they are with basic login, or with social media accounts...

With my Telerik NativeScript adventures pressing on, I ran into an obstacle that took me quite some time to figure out. I wanted to launch a URL from within my application in the iOS and Android system web browser. It wasn’t obvious in the documentation at the time of writing this, but after a lot o...

I am very pleased to announce my second quickstart course titled NativeScript 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps found on the learning service Udemy. This course follows in the same direction as the previous course I released titled Ionic Framework 101, but instead of Ionic Framework we’re co...

I created this blog not too long ago in an effort to help developers, system administrators, and even bloggers. As many of you know, I’m using Digital Ocean to host this WordPress blog because it gives me the performance I need for the amount of traffic I receive. In case anyone wants to follow in m...

With Angular development happening in full force, I figured it was time to take a break from Angular 1 and start thinking about what it takes to make the switch over to Angular. Like with most JavaScript powered applications you will have a single page composed of partial routes and views. I previou...

So you’re at a time in your life where you want to manage your own web server. Maybe you are currently on a shared hosting plan and it isn’t giving you the performance you need because your web application is getting crazy amounts of traffic or maybe you just want to play the role of DevOps. My blog...

So I answer enough forum, Stack Overflow, and blog questions to feel it is now necessary to teach people how to properly seek programming help using these outlets or similar. I feel it is necessary because so much time can be saved for everyone when this is done correctly. As someone who provides fr...

Previously I wrote how to properly test your Ionic Framework application and how to debug your application using ADB for Android. However, I get many questions from people regarding how to test their Apache Cordova, PhoneGap or Ionic Framework application running on iOS. In this guide I’m going to w...

Previously I wrote about how to create an AngularJS application with PouchDB and Couchbase. The way I demonstrated is of course one way to accomplish the job of using Couchbase in a web application. This time around we’re going to take a look at creating a full stack application using the Couchbase,...

The release of iOS 9 has caused a mess of problems in the Apache Cordova, Ionic Framework, and PhoneGap communities. Problems spanning from styling issues, to permission issues, and even stricter security requirements that Apache Cordova wasn’t ready to handle. Here I’m going to discuss App Transpor...

In case you’re in the area and are interested, I will be in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16 and October 17 speaking at ConnectJS. This is a conference focusing on JavaScript development and mobile application development. I will be giving two presentations titled Quick and Easy Development with Node....

Last year when Android 5.0 Lollipop came out I didn’t want to wait for an over-the-air (OTA) update so I flashed my Nexus device manually. I wrote about this experience in a previous post. This time I upgraded my Android operating system to the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow release. We’re going to ...

I’ve written a few tutorials regarding Node.js and the Express.js framework, but I never took a step back and explained how to make a super simple RESTful API for processing HTTP requests from a front-facing interface. With this API created, you can use it with just about any application that can su...

So after a lot of thinking about it I finally dedicated some time to creating my first ever Ionic Framework course! The title of the course is Ionic Framework 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps and it can be found on the learning service Udemy. A little background on what I hoped to accomplis...

Previously I wrote about using the device camera in your React Native mobile application. However, what if we wanted to go a step further and start scanning barcodes? This is not a problem because the react-native-camera component we used in the last tutorial also supports barcode scanning. The post...

In case you’re interested in seeing me present on Node.js or Ionic Framework and Couchbase, I’ll be giving two talks at the free to attend Silicon Valley Code Camp in San Jose, California. It is the weekend of October 3rd to October 4th. The title of my talks are Quick and Easy Development with Node...

I’m trying something new so bare with me here. I speak at quite a few events (conferences, meetups, code camps, etc.) so I figured it would be useful to my followers to know when and where these events are in case I am in your part of the world. I’ll keep it short and to the point. I’m going to be i...

Keeping up the trend of React Native coolness, I figured it would be a good idea to see how to access the native device clipboard. I had already demonstrated the device clipboard with Ionic Framework so it would only be fair to accomplish the same with React Native as well. Out of the box with React...