This week’s blog post was requested by one of our readers, Jasmine. Jasmine asked if I could write a guide on “processing JSON data for android applications using NodeJS and Express and Android Studio”. I haven’t done anything using Android Studio in a while – and I love writing guides that you all want and need – so…
Category: Tutorials
Create a local development server for Python apps
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a local development server for your Python applications using Vagrant, VirtualBox, Salt and Python3. Creating a local development server on your machine is crucial to coding quickly and efficiently. It’s faster, more portable, and you don’t have to rely on an internet connection for…
AngularJS with Gulp Tutorial
In this video I’m going to show you how to make a Hello World app using AngularJS using Gulp to deploy and test locally. There are loads of tutorials explaining how to make a basic Hello World app but I find most of them don’t focus on the file structure or folders of the app…
How to use Angular CLI and get Angular2 set up in SECONDS Tutorial
I’ve been teaching myself Angular2 and how to use the next version of the Angular framework. I think this software is going to be really popular in the foreseeable future and that most apps, whether mobile or desktop, will be hybrid apps rather than native. It’s just so much more efficient to build software suited…
How to ask questions on Stack Overflow (and get answers)
A lot of people ask me questions when something isn’t working. While I’m more than happy to help where I can, the questions I tend to get don’t outline enough information for me to be able to answer them. But more importantly, I might not be the best-suited developer to help. Which is why every programmer should…
How to Build an App Part 2 of 3: Creating the back-end with Django REST Framework
Welcome to part 2 of 3 of my How to Build an App tutorial. In the first part, I explained how to create the back-end server which we will use to host our app’s back-end (if you didn’t get a chance to read it, you can check it out here). In this second part, I…
How to Build an App Part 1 of 3: Setting up the Development Server with Vagrant, Ubuntu and Salt (Mac OS X Version)
Using Windows? Click here to view the Windows version of this walk-through. After my previous post, Android Development for Beginners: 6 Steps to Building Your First App, I received some requests asking me to explain in more detail how to build an app, step-by-step. If you have any experience buildings apps you will know that it can…
How to Build an App Part 1 of 3: Setting up the Development Server with Vagrant, Ubuntu and Salt
Using a Mac? Click here to view the Mac OS X version of this walk-through. After my previous post, Android Development for Beginners: 6 Steps to Building Your First App, I received some requests asking me to explain in more detail how to build an app, step-by-step. If you have any experience buildings apps you will know…
Android Development for Beginners: 6 Steps to Building Your First App
Learning any new technology can be a challenging and frustrating task. When I first started learning Android development, I spent a lot of time reading the official documentation provided by Google, and following various tutorials over and over again, trying to memorize all the syntax. After a while, I realised that this was a complete…
Disable "LF will be replaced by CLRF" warning in Git on Windows
If you’ve ever used Git in windows, you may have seen something like this every time you add files to Git: If you want to turn it off, type this: Done.