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Make HTTP Requests In A NativeScript Mobile Application

The Polyglot Developer

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 third party web services. I demonstrated how to make HTTP requests in Ionic Framework as well as how to make HTTP requests in React Native.

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Corporate Middle Management as an Autopoietic System

The Agile Manager

[T]he aim of such systems is ultimately to produce themselves: their own organization and identity is their most important product. -- Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization , p. 236. In the early 1970s, biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela coined the term autopoiesis to define the self-maintaining nature of living cells: biological cells produce the components that maintain the structure that creates more components (in this case, more cells).

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Advice For Becoming a Front End Developer

Professor Beekums

Someone recently asked me for advice for switching careers to be a front end developer. I knew very little about the person other than their college degree was unrelated to the field, they were trying out Free Code Camp, and that they wanted to be a front end developer.

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Taking Let's Encrypt for a Spin

Tim Kadlec

A lot of folks have been very vocally pushing for “HTTPS Everywhere”, and for good reason. The fact that the lack of HTTPS makes you miss out on shiny new things like HTTP/2 and Service Workers adds even more incentive for those a little less inspired by the security arguments. Unfortunately, moving to HTTPS can be kind of painful as you can see from Jeremy Keith’s excellent post detailing exactly how he got adactio.com onto HTTPS.