Probably many of you already know that, PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are apps that can run in the browser or in a standalone window and can take advantage of native OS features, such as push notifications and the ability to work offline. Recently they’ve got a lot of media attention because they seem to be … Continue reading How you can develop Progressive Web Apps that feel native
Tag: Web
What happened to the WEB?
I was always into low level C/C++ stuff and most of my career I wrote desktop and server applications but during my college years, I remember I made decent amount of money by doing websites/applications for different customers. I remember that I really liked WEB development back in the days: you just needed to edit … Continue reading What happened to the WEB?
Fast food development
These days everybody wants to write web applications, cuz we all know that the web has all the cool technologies: Angular, React, Vue, you name it. More than that we can actually see JavaScript being pushed everywhere including mobile and desktop. Java, C++, native applications are all obsolete! Ionic and Electron are the future. Well, … Continue reading Fast food development
JavaScript: Deal with cached async calls
If you are doing asynchronous calls to a server (AJAX or something else) you must know that some browsers will cache the result for a specific request. The problem with that is that if you want to pull data from the server using repeated asynchronous requests then you are out of luck, the cache operation … Continue reading JavaScript: Deal with cached async calls
Happy Birthday Pubtex
Last month, me and a good friend of mine, Vasi Topac, worked on a new project called PubTex. PubTex was born from the frustration that we, the authors, had while consuming live text press articles on the web. The so called live text, although valuable due to the fresh information, was most of the time … Continue reading Happy Birthday Pubtex
Install Brackets on Kubuntu/Ubuntu
I tried to install Adobe Brackets on Kubuntu 15 but sadly I couldn't do it directly. The problem was an old and obsolete dependency called libgcrypt11. The "solution" for this is for Adobe to update the .deb package but obviously this is not an acceptable solution, for us users. What you can do is install … Continue reading Install Brackets on Kubuntu/Ubuntu