tech.agilitynerd mobile

Here are my slides on Build in Customer Support: Simplify support of your mobile/web applications for a "lightning talk" that I gave at the October Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup.

I've been a developer for a while and have worked in organizations who have been focused on the customer (really …

Here are my slides on Cypress E2E Testing for a talk that I gave at the June Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup.

I first tried Cypress when testing my Agility Course Master hybrid mobile (Ionic) application/website. I was really impressed with how easy it was to install and use. The …

I gave a short talk on 'PouchDB and Couchbase Replication for the Offline-First Web' at the September Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup.

It builds on Peter Mbanugo's blog post: Using PouchDB and Couchbase in an Offline-First Application by using the PouchDB API in place of the Hoodie API Peter used.

My …

Here are my slides on Using the Ionic Framework for Mobile and Web Development for a talk that I gave at the July Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup.

I've been using Ionic since early 2017. I was drawn to it because it allowed a single code base to create native applications …

I'm creating a mobile app for my agilitycourses website and I'm using django-rest-framework to provide a REST API for use by the client application. In order to provide authentication and registration I'm using django-allauth. Lastly I use django-rest-auth to provide REST resources for authentication and registration.

I implemented and tested …

For the mobile version of agilitycourses.com I wanted to follow the approach Google appears to be using on some of its sites:

• If the user views agilitycourses.com from a desktop browser they should see the standard/desktop version of the site.
• If the user views agilitycourses.com from …

I'm adding an "m" subdomain to agilitycourses.com to provide a better mobile browsing experience. I'm using the referrer string in Django middleware (currently using minidetector) to detect whether the client is mobile and redirect them to the mobile site. Since it is likely that some folks will/won't get …