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How did I get here ? yes that is the exact thought in my head right now, how did I get here? ( or this link ) Yes not long ago, I had a job that paid a somewhat decent amount, I was working on a very challenging (and interesting) project and I had plenty of time to play games. Right now: well I am still working on an interesting project, not getting paid (not yet) and I am getting very little time to play games. Ok so maybe not 'thaaat' different from my former situation except the part about the money. The point is that being a sole founder in a startup, I just have to so many things at the same time, I mean seriously think about this, I am building a Java Spring web version for My Day To-Do , I have to deploy it to AWS , learn new APIs in iOS 11, make iOS11 updates, make job descriptions, find more employees (interns) to work with me at my startup etc etc. The number of disparate (different) tasks I need to get my head around is just staggering. In this post I will be shari...

In this post we will continue the story of Cpt.Danko (Danko) and how he returned to work from 3 months of medical leave and was asked to build a mobile app about the Galaxy's finest smugglers using technologies that he knew little about. In the first part of the story we got to know how Danko built the Java backend for the app and in this part we will explore the front-end side of things i.e. the Ionic framework powered mobile app. Background In the first part of this story, Java RESTful backend for an app about the Galaxy's finest smugglers , we learned about the new project requirements that Danko had to work with, which were For his new project, Danko was asked to build an app that that shows a list of some of the  galaxy's finest smugglers   their race when we click on them  and the user should also have the ability to add a smuggler Since this was a client project, the UI for the project was already known and the first thing that Danko had to do was ...

In this post, I will continue from where we left in Part 1 of this series.  In part 2, I will talk more about the front-end side of things. Ahh, I have a background in web development, hence I call this front-end, but that's not the most accurate thing to say in these modern times. So the right way to say this is, I will talk about the Ionic app in this Github repository(IonicAppWithRestBackend) in more details in this post. So what did we do in part 1? In part 1, we got to the point of running our backend on the web server that ships with Django . To refresh your memory, this is how we got the backend server running, Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/cptdanko/IonicAppWithRestBackend Navigate to the backend project directory cd IonicAppWithRestBackend/backend/python_django/restBackend/ Note: if you are using Windows, you may want to change "/" to "\" in the above command. Once there you can run the backend server with the follow...

In this post, I will be talking about my latest Github repository(repo);  IonicAppWithRestBackend  and delve into details about what it is and the problem it aims to solve. Introduction The idea of this repo is to provide code samples for both the backend and front-end for an Ionic app that communicates with a REST ful backend. The aim is to bring many disparate aspects of building a solution like this(hybrid app that talks to a REST backend) and to be able to see most of them as one complete solution. Also, a solution such as this ensures you can test your Ionic app locally during development. Still not clear? read on to find out what I mean. Note: Once I started writing this post, I realised that it would be a really long blog post, so I decided to split it into individual parts in hopes that it's an easier read. In part 1, I will be talking about what the backend solution is and how to get it running. Motivation In 2014, I started working on a project with someon...