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How to Get Started Building Mobile Apps With Meteor
http://abstractcoder.com/2014/08/22/how-to-get-started-building-mobile-apps-with-meteor-js.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. How to Get Started Building Mobile Apps With Meteor. August 22, 2014. Quick Meteor Mobile App Tutorial. The ability to create mobile apps for iOS and Android using Cordova. This short guide will show you how to get up and running quickly. To build an app for iOS first you will need to install the latest version of Xcode. If you want to build an app for Android you will need to install the Android SDK. If you dont have Meteor installed first open a terminal window and run.
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Quick Meteor Mobile App Tutorial
http://abstractcoder.com/2014/12/03/quick-meteor-mobile-app-tutorial.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. Quick Meteor Mobile App Tutorial. December 3, 2014. Meteor recently released version 1.0. So I decided to revisit deploying Meteor apps to iOS and Android. The last article showed how to deploy the default Meteor application. But this time I will be deploying the example todo app. If you dont have Meteor installed first open a terminal window and run. Curl https:/ install.meteor.com. Next create a new project using the todo example and change to the new project directory.
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Using Multiple Gemfiles
http://abstractcoder.com/2013/08/23/using-multiple-gemfiles.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. August 23, 2013. One of the major benefits of Bundler. Is being able to checkout a project and install its Gem dependencies using the. Command. However, Gems that are only used locally shouldnt be added to the Gemfile because they unnecessarily alter Gem dependencies and in some cases create conflicts with project Gems. To install the Gems from this file you need to run. Bundle install - gemfile Gemfile.tools. Finally to use the. Gemfile.tools bundle exec.
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Mapping and Geocoding in Commercial Web Applications
http://abstractcoder.com/2014/03/14/mapping-and-geocoding-in-commercial-web-applications.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. Mapping and Geocoding in Commercial Web Applications. March 14, 2014. Mapping and geocoding is difficult to do in commercial web applications. Not technically difficult, but in terms of licensing. Many websites and applications use Google Maps. The project Im working on is a Rails. Application. After researching and testing I decided to go with the Geocoder. Gem for geocoding and Leaflet. I also excluded any services that didnt have transparent pricing and terms. They pro...
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Create a Windows Service with Ruby - Part 2
http://abstractcoder.com/2013/08/02/create-a-windows-service-with-ruby-part-2.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. Create a Windows Service with Ruby - Part 2. August 2, 2013. In the last post. I created a simple Windows Service using Ruby. The biggest drawback of creating a Windows Service with Ruby is that the target machine would need Ruby installed as a prerequisite. Fortunately there is a Ruby gem called OCRA. Which alleviates this issue. According to OCRA’s GitHub page,. There are a few changes that will need to be made in order to get the Windows Service working with OCRA.
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Simple AngularJS Forms
http://abstractcoder.com/2014/01/13/simple-angularjs-forms.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. January 13, 2014. Reactive programming and templating are extremely powerful because they allow you to define how your UI should work, without the need to manually manipulate the UI. Here is an extremely simple example of a form that should calculate and display an area to the user, based on the length and width. Before discovering reactive programming, this is how I would code the dynamic behavior of the form. JSFiddle Simple jQuery Form. JSFiddle Simple AngularJS Form.
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Javascript Regex Pitfall
http://abstractcoder.com/2013/09/20/javascript-regex-pitfall.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. September 20, 2013. Ive run into a frustrating issue with several of my apps where a regular expression Im using seems to periodically fail. In the case where there is only one match in the string the test method will fail every other time. In the case of two more matches, calls to test will return true once for every match, then return false. Here is some example code that illustrates this behavior http:/ jsfiddle.net/abstractcoder/gx5yh/.
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Create a Windows Service with Ruby - Part 1
http://abstractcoder.com/2013/07/18/create-a-windows-service-with-ruby-part-1.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. Create a Windows Service with Ruby - Part 1. July 18, 2013. Recently I was tasked to create an application that needed to run in the background on a Windows machine, which seemed like the perfect job for a Windows Service. I’ve created Windows Services with .Net before but I wanted to try to create one with Ruby. It turns out that it was pretty easy to get a Windows Service up and running using Ruby. The next step is to install the win32-service gem. The last line actuall...
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Web Development Resources
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Web and Mobile Development Blog. Below is a list of web development resources I find useful. Im always looking for resources that make it quicker and easier to develop and deploy robust web applications. This list will expand and evolve over time as I test new products and services, so if you find this useful check back often. Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means that if you purchase something my company will earn a commission. This does. Dropbox Pro paired with Packrat Version Histor...
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Using Bower With Middleman Through Sprockets
http://abstractcoder.com/2013/07/12/using-bower-with-middleman-through-sprockets.html
Web and Mobile Development Blog. Using Bower With Middleman Through Sprockets. July 12, 2013. Is a simple package management system for js/css similar to Bundler for Ruby or NPM. Is a static website generator I use to create web app prototypes. Since it uses Ruby, Bundler, and Sprockets its fairly easy to migrate work done in Middleman to Ruby on Rails. Now that Sprockets is set to search the bower components directory you can use Sprockets to include the files using the following format.
