The Polyglot Developer

Crack Wireless Passwords Using A Raspberry Pi And Aircrack

June 6, 2018

Another day and another project with one of the many Raspberry Pi devices that are laying around my house. One of my younger family members came over to try to get inspired for his college future so we decided to work on a project together. We wanted to explore some cybersecurity topics rather than programming which led us to network security.

We decided to try to obtain the password to my wireless network password using the popular Aircrack-ng software. While it didn't find my password in the end, it doesn't mean we weren't successful.

In this tutorial, we're going to see how to setup Aircrack-ng on a Raspberry Pi to decipher WiFi passwords for WEP and WPA secured networks.

June 2, 2018

Nic Raboy

I'm pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast titled, Automated Software Delivery for Cloud Native Applications, has been published to all the major podcast networks, including, but not limited to, iTunes and Pocket Casts.

In this episode I'm joined by Jim Clark who is the Chief Architect at a software delivery as a service company called Atomist, where we discuss software delivery and how it can be improved within organizations to make relevant teams within them more efficient.

June 1, 2018

Roman Akhromieiev

In February 2018 the Ionic team announced Capacitor. Capacitor allows you to make your frontend builds run everywhere, for example, iOS, Android, Electron and in the browser as a progressive web application (PWA).

Also, Capacitor provides a high-quality API to work with native functions within your apps. For example, you can get access to the camera and it means you still get this access to every platform.

In the official Capacitor documentation you can find a well-described tutorial on how to use Capacitor with Ionic, but in our tutorial, we will check how you can add Capacitor to your existing React app. We will create a simple React app with Capacitor and run it on iOS and in the browser as PWA.

May 24, 2018

Nic Raboy

Have you ever needed to perform a certain action when the user tries to hit the back button or exit out of your application on Android devices? For example, what if the user was able to back out of your application and you wanted to show a dialog. Or what if you have a video application and you wanted to pause the video when they tap the back button?

Being able to override the functionality of the back button on Android can do great things for your application as long as you don't abuse it.

We're going to see how to create a mobile application with NativeScript and Angular that demonstrates overriding the back button on Android, whether that be hardware or software.

May 22, 2018

Nic Raboy

I've been playing around with GraphQL for a little over a month now, just to see if it is worth all the buzz it has been getting when it comes to modern API development. I must say that the more I use it, the more I'm coming to like it.

I recently wrote a few tutorials around getting started with GraphQL using Golang, but being the polyglot that I am, I wanted to see how difficult it would be to accomplish the same in something else, like Node.js. After having made an attempt, I found that it really isn't any different as it is the same concept, just a different language.

We're going to see how to get started with developing a web application with Node.js that can be queried with GraphQL rather than the traditional RESTful API endpoint approach.

May 17, 2018

Nic Raboy

I'm pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, titled Progressive Web Application Development has been published to all of the major podcast networks.

In this episode, which is the eighteenth on the show, I'm joined by Tara Manicsic who is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and works for Progress Software, the company behind Kendo UI. We discuss everything from where applications are headed and how they can function effectively as PWAs.

May 16, 2018

Nic Raboy

I recently wrote about getting started with GraphQL in a Golang application, where I discussed the creation of schemas, executing queries, and mutating data, even though it was all mock data. In this example there were queries for related data, but they were constructed in a very independent form.

We're going to see how to query for related data, similar to what you'd find in a JOIN operation on a relational database, but using GraphQL and the Go programming language.

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