Premium Members Only Content Is Coming To The Polyglot Developer

June 12, 2016 Nic Raboy

Back in 2014 I started blogging on The Polyglot Developer which was previously known as Nic Raboy’s Code Blog. Since then I’ve published more than 250 blog articles, more than 100 video tutorials, and even three premium courses. The Polyglot Developer is evolving again, this time with premium members only content in addition to the free content I plan to continue to produce.

Here we’re going to see about what is coming on this blog and how it can benefit you, the awesome developer and loyal subscriber to my content.

TPDP Episode #6: PouchDB and its Usefulness in Development

June 10, 2016 Nic Raboy

As a web and mobile application developer, you may come to a point where you need to worry about data and how to synchronize it between devices in platforms. PouchDB is one of a few good solutions that makes this task significantly easier. In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker Nolan Lawson and I discuss PouchDB and how it is being used in a lot of modern applications, both web and mobile.

Nolan Lawson is a Program Manager at Microsoft, but also one of the core contributors to the PouchDB open source project. In Episode #6: PouchDB and its Usefulness in Browser Based Development, we’re going to cover a lot of ground without actually showing how to use the database in your application. After all, this is an audio only podcast. You will however, be educated on a lot of the technical concepts and popular use cases behind the tool.

Prompt Users To Rate Your NativeScript Android And iOS App

June 6, 2016 Nic Raboy

So you’ve released this great application that you developed using NativeScript by Progress. The problem you might be facing now is that no one is rating or reviewing your mobile application. This may be related to the fact that it takes a bit of time to find an app in the app store and then leave a rating. A great solution to this is to prompt the user to rate your application and be automatically redirected to the app store listing should they agree to leave you a rating.

We’re going to see how to prompt users for feedback from within your NativeScript iOS and Android mobile application.

Create A Simple Todo List App Using Ionic 2 For Android And iOS

June 3, 2016 Nic Raboy

I’ve created a few tutorials around Ionic 2 while it was in its early alpha stage up until now. These tutorials explain how to use the bits and pieces that the framework or Angular offers, but I never demonstrated how to make a functional application. Seeing how to put the pieces together makes a huge difference when learning a new technology.

We’re going to see how to build a simple todo list type Android and iOS application using Ionic 2, Angular, and TypeScript.

Using Couchbase NoSQL In A NativeScript Angular Mobile App

May 30, 2016 Nic Raboy

Not too long ago I created a Couchbase NoSQL plugin with Mehfuz Hossain from Telerik for the NativeScript framework. Since developing the plugin it has received a lot of positive feedback and great developer adoption. Shortly after its release I published a blog post on how to use the Couchbase plugin in a NativeScript app. The blog post I had written focused on using NativeScript’s proprietary vanilla framework. Since then, Angular has been released for NativeScript, so it makes sense to make an Angular version of the tutorial.

We’re going to see how to create a cross platform NativeScript application that syncs, using Angular and Couchbase.

Converting Your Ionic 2 Mobile App To NativeScript

May 27, 2016 Nic Raboy

As many of you know, I had been using Apache Cordova based frameworks such as Ionic Framework for a long time. They are convenient and easy to use when it comes to rapidly developing cross platform applications. The problem with using Apache Cordova frameworks such as PhoneGap, Ionic Framework and Onsen UI is the performance limitations that come with them, particularly because of their use of the platform web view.

NativeScript is a mobile development platform that I recently switched to because it eliminates the performance issues that people experience with web view based frameworks. This is because it doesn’t render your application in a web view. Instead the application gets compiled to native code giving the same performance you’d see in an app that was developed with Objective-C or Java.

Being that I spent a long time with Ionic Framework and Ionic 2, which uses AngularJS and Angular, I figured it would make sense to show how easy it is to convert your application to NativeScript, which also uses Angular. As an end result you’ll get a cross platform web application, built with a modern framework, that is native.

Clone A Raspberry Pi SD Card For Quick Storage Upgrades

May 25, 2016 Nic Raboy

I recently found myself needing to switch micro SD cards in my Raspberry Pi 3, not necessarily because it needed a storage upgrade, but more because I had a different device that needed the exact memory card that the Raspberry Pi was using. The problem was that I had already done a lot of work on the Raspberry Pi that I didn’t necessarily want to have to do again. This made me wonder. Could I just clone the micro SD card and be good to go? The answer was yes, and it really wasn’t difficult to do.

We’re going to take a look at how to clone or copy a Raspberry Pi memory card to a new one with potentially more space than the previous.