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Use A Side Drawer And Feature Rich List View In A NativeScript Angular App

The Polyglot Developer

I release a lot of content and build a lot of mobile applications using the NativeScript mobile framework, most of which includes Angular. Lately I’ve been getting many requests for information on using a side drawer within the application. These side drawer components can improve the user experience significantly so I figured I would explore the topic.

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Estimating Software Bugs

Professor Beekums

Software bugs are an inevitable part of any complex application. The human mind may be able to understand how an application works at a high level, but being able to have every detail floating around in your head is impossible. That means that it is very easy for a programmer to miss handling a specific situation in their code, aka edge cases, because they aren’t thinking about it.

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Our Once and Future Wisdom: Re-acquiring Lost Institutional Knowledge

The Agile Manager

Last month we looked at the loss of institutional memory and the reasons for it. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it. The erosion of business knowledge is not a recent phenomenon. Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand.

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Nested Routing In A NativeScript Angular Application For Android And iOS

The Polyglot Developer

When building mobile applications you’ll often find yourself needing to create child components. What do I mean by child components? Take for example a mobile application with two different screen groupings, one where the user is not signed in and the other where the user is signed in. In each of these groupings you could have multiple screens where the user is signed in and multiple screens where the user is not signed in.

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Track The Device Geolocation In A NativeScript Angular Mobile Application

The Polyglot Developer

I get a particular set of questions quite a bit on my blog and other social media outlets. One of these questions includes how to use geolocation features such as GPS tracking within a NativeScript mobile application for iOS and Android. Many people want to be able to gather location information and in many cases use this information for mapping. So what does it take to make use of the device GPS hardware for location tracking?

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Automatically Apply A WiFi Network Configuration To A Raspberry Pi

The Polyglot Developer

As you probably know, I’m a fan of the Raspberry Pi and Pi Zero Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Well, I recently had a moment where I felt like a total newbie. I go through a lot of installations of Raspbian Linux and during every installation I go through a network configuration process. This process of configuration is either by Ethernet or UART connection.

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