React Native is the dominant cross-platform mobile framework for React users. It’s powerful, full-featured, and powers many thousands of mobile applications across the iOS and Android landscape. Choosing React Native is a great choice. You may have heard of NativeScript. It’s a cross-platform, mobile framework for creating truly native mobile applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular,…
Have you ever noticed the warnings on medication about not operating heavy machinery? How many industrial accidents are there because an equipment operator took a healthy swig of Nyquil before getting to work? Apart from the warning sticker, there’s no real prevention of this condition. If you stretch this metaphor to software development, you’d have…
The best way to annoy and frustrate users is to give them a sluggish, unresponsive experience. So if you’d like your users to curse your name and yell in frustration, skip this article. Still here? Cool. As you know, in modern JavaScript, it is too easy to ship excessive megabytes of JavaScript code to the…
On Wednesday, November 18th, TJ VanToll, and I interviewed Julian Gonggrijp, a scientific programmer for the Digital Humanities Lab at Utrecht University. He recently spent quite a bit of time reworking the structure of the popular Underscore.js library. On the show, we discussed what it was like to analyze and undertake the modularization work. We also discussed…
Digital Primates is a great place to work. The staff are top-notch, the leadership is approachable, egalitarian, and takes care of the staff and clients. I love the culture here at Digital Primates and believe it’s one of the key reasons why we attract and retain excellent staff. Like many of you, we’ve all been…
I presented “How to modernize your application with APIs” to the 2020 ColdFusion Summit today. There were over 5,000 registrants, and the recordings for all sessions will be made available for free to the public. The presentation’s main goal was to set the strategy on how to modernize existing applications to meet the latest expectations…