All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

'It’s an exciting time in San Francisco as the return of the. AWS Loft. is fast approaching. We’ve been working round-the-clock, making updates to ensure the experience is more fulfilling and educational than in June. Today we’re excited to announce that…. On Wednesday, October 1 st , we’ll be returning to 925 Market Street! The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

There are often times where you need to display messages to your users inside your Ionic Framework Android and iOS application. If you’ve been using Ionic for a while, you’re already familiar with the $ionicPopup feature, but what happens if you don’t want to bother the user with interaction? Using the Toast plugin by Eddy Verbruggen for Apache Cordova, we are able to create native Toast notifications for both iOS and Android that require no user interaction to close.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

At Velocity NY, Daniel Espeset of Etsy gave a great talk about how Etsy profiles their JavaScript parse and execution time. Even better, after the talk, they released the tool on GitHub. Daniel shared a few examples in his deck , but I couldn’t wait to take Daniel’s tool and fire it up on a bunch of random browsers and devices that I have sitting around.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Preparing an Apache Cordova Android project for release can seem like a difficult task. The documentation for completing such a task is definitely more than it needs to be. The post Signing An Apache Cordova 4.x Android App For Release appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

After recognizing that I develop almost entirely on Ubuntu Linux , a subscriber of mine asked me how to properly set up an Ubuntu machine for Ionic Framework Android development. Now there are a ton of options to handle this task, but not many bare bones solutions. Most solutions on the internet explain how to use an IDE, or fail to elaborate a complete installation.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

I recently found myself needing to scan barcodes in one of my apps. More specifically I needed to scan quick response (QR) codes. After doing some searching I found that ngCordova had an extension for the Apache Cordova plugin BarcodeScanner which has the ability to scan barcodes in the following formats: QR Code. Data Matrix. UPC E. UPC A. EAN 8. EAN 13.

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