ionic/cordova emulate vs. Xcode 7

After the App Store automatically updated Xcode to version 7 (without me actually wanting this for now, but hey …) running ionic emulate ios -c -l would not do much anymore: The app would launch but get stuck at the loading screen No console.log() calls would be logged Fixing it manually To fix this, update …

Chaos Kong

The people at Netflix: Several years ago we introduced a tool called Chaos Monkey. This service pseudo-randomly plucks a server from our production deployment on AWS and kills it. Building on the success of Chaos Monkey, we looked at an extreme case of infrastructure failure. We built Chaos Kong, which doesn’t just kill a server. …

Your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe

Before you know it, anyone with physical access to your ‘locked’ device could be accessing your personal photographs and contacts. Even with the latest iOS 9.0.1 update, your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe → On a sidenote: The audio stack of my iPhone crashed today — “Hello IT, have you tried …”

Videogular – The HTML5 video player for AngularJS

Note: the demo embedded below might not work due to the source files only being available over HTTP, and this site being loaded over HTTPS. In that case you can check out the pen here Videogular is a video application framework for desktop and mobile powered by AngularJS Really nice player. Works way smoother than …

ion-drawer-vertical – A vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) for Ionic

For a current Ionic project I’m working on I needed a vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) to store in some content that may be hidden by the user. As I couldn’t immediately find such a component in Ionic itself I decided to create one myself: ion-drawer-vertical (source available on GitHub). The result is a …

Ionic: Preparing for iOS 9

iOS 9 is releasing next week, and with it comes some changes and bugs that Ionic developers need to be aware of. Even if your app was published for an earlier version of iOS, you might still need to make some fixes due to regressions released by Apple in the web browser. Some minor things, …

Glen Keane – Step into the Page

Be inspired: Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Tarzan, to name just a few. Keane has spent his career embracing new tools, from digital environments to 3D animation to …