Josh Morony has just started a new series on learning Ionic. So far part 1 is going through the basics of creating and setting up a Ionic app, but it is an interesting series, because Josh has mainly developed mobile apps using Sencha, which I’ve never used. Seeing how a developer moves from alternative technology to … Read more
Using Desk for the first time. I’ve been a fan of Desk for a while, reading John’s blog and his videos about developing Desk. So finally I thought I’d pay for the app. And this is my first post using Desk. A couple of the things I like about Desk is the full screen editing, … Read more
Working with jQuerymobile today, it’s so hard to go back to that after working with Ionic for the last few weeks. jQuerymobile is good and the original mobile/hybrid web framework, but it is now so far behind. For me this it what it needs: A new grid system or one that has more classes and options … Read more
Just reading through the CLI documentation on the Ionic site, found this small tip for updating the version of Ionic you have in a project. To do this go to your project in terminal, then run: ionic lib update This then updates Ionic for that project to the latest, nice….
I’ve been a fan of Chris Beshore and his iOS newsletter, though I’m not a iOS developer the newsletter does have some great articles. One of them in this weeks newsletter is a story by Stephen North on his journey as a iOS indie developer. Its a great read and inspiring to hear someone has … Read more
http://developer.telerik.com/featured/what-is-a-hybrid-mobile-app/ Nice article on what is a hybrid mobile app is. I’ve not used Telerik tools, but for any hybrid developer this is an interesting article.
I’m working on a Ionic app that loads data at startup and also checks to see if this data is available everytime a view loads. So to do this I’ve created a Service that loads the data, this I can call within the run function in the main JavaScript file, where I set up the … Read more
Today I’ve been working from home, thankfully the client I’m working for sometimes allows me to do this if I need to. I was thinking about remote working and how it has changed and grown so much over the last few years. Back when I started in the web industry many years ago, one of the … Read more
There is an interesting article on the Universal Mind blog about the upcoming trends in 2015. One of these trends is Hybrid Apps. In the article the author, Peter Traeg, talks about how the recent updates in the webviews for both Android and iOS have made great steps forward in performance. This with the latest phones … Read more
After reading the great book Soft Skills from John Sonmez I decided to setup a new site for CGCSoftware. The previous site was a simple HTML/Bootstrap site I created quickly over a weekend and it hasn’t been updated ever since. So after reading through John’s book and his thoughts on how the blog is one … Read more
