More than 2 years ago, I created a lightweight point of sale system (POS) for our restaurant in Jalandhar called SkewerSpot (SS). I wrote the thing in under a week (cowboy coding, yodlee yodlee youdoo) in Ionic/Angular. Essentially, it’s a collection of hybrid mobile apps that allows a restaurant to manage orders in real-time via […]
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Ionic Studio looks exciting (I hope it will be free)
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentThe Ionic team has just dropped a bomb in my inbox. The bomb even has a name – Ionic Studio. Still in preview, Studio is Ionic’s official integrated development environment (IDE). I believe they have done a fantastic job by concentrating on the thing that’s their defining feature — UI Components. Of course, things like […]
Fun trip to Bangalore (March ’17 edition)
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — 1 CommentDon’t let “edition” in the title mislead you into believing I’ve had a lot of fun trip to Bangalore before. But I’m hoping I will going forward. Nishith and I went on an official trip to attend Microsoft’s March 16-17 Tech Summit event. I have nothing much to say about the event other than it was […]
Progressive Web Apps
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentYou have no doubt heard of Progressive Web Apps by now, PWA for short, haven’t you? No? That’s okay. The thing is still pretty new. Although the concept is not entirely unique, recent advances in web standards & technologies have now made it possible to create mobile-first web apps that work equally well on desktops […]
The Problem of Run-Once Controllers in Ionic
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentIonic is based on Angular. Angular has views and controllers. A view’s controller is supposed to execute each time the view is opened or navigated to. In Ionic, that doesn’t happen. Take for instance this setup: you’re building a social app that has a Login view. You’ve configured the routes such that the Home view […]