It’s been quite a while since my last post. Last year was a busy year with more updates to the The NativeScript Book, but now it’s time to get back to blogging! For Christmas this year my wife got me a ukulele. Although I’m still terrible at playing I am really excited to learn. The ukulele got me thinking about all kinds of apps I…
Author: Nick Branstein
NativeScript Playground
Yesterday Mike and I had the privilege of giving a half-day workshop at Code PaLOUsa 2018. If you’re not familiar with Code PaLOUsa it’s “Software Development Madness” right here in Louisville, KY. Mike and I spoke about rapidly prototyping mobile apps using NativeScript and Angular where we created a SpaceX mobile app in a few hours. So how does one rapidly…
Reusable Card Component with NativeScript and Angular
Happy New Year everyone! Last year was quite a year with the release of The NativeScript Book and all. This coming year Mike and I plan on making some updates to the book to make sure it’s update to date with the latest updates to the NativeScript framework and to fix grammatical errors that have been found since release. But enough…
The NativeScript Book
Today is a very exciting day for myself and Mike because our book, The NativeScript Book, is finally released! The best part is that it’s available online now available online now, for free, from Telerik! If an eBook isn’t your thing then print copies will be available soon on Amazon. I’d like to take a quick moment and thank my family,…
Takeaways From Code PaLOUsa 2017 For All Attendees
Code PaLOUsa 2017 I’ve been going to Code PaLOUsa for the past five or six years now and had the chance to speak there several years as well. Chances are you may not even know what Code PaLOUsa is, well it’s “software development madness” just like http://codepalousa.com says! Code PaLOUsa is a yearly developer conference in Louisville, KY. If you missed this…
NativeScript in Action Update – All Chapters
I’m pleased to announce that with the last MEAP update to NativeScript in Action all the remaining chapters were released! It’s been a long road over the last year but we’re finally done with all the chapters and can now share them with everyone. This last MEAP update was a large update and included chapters 13 through 17 which I’ve outlined briefly…
NativeScript in Action Update – Chapter 12
If you’ve been following our last post – you’ll know that we have been releasing MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) updates every couple of weeks. We’ve only got 2 chapters left to finish edits on so stay tuned for more updates to our progress on NativeScript in Action! Chapter 12 Released The lasted update to MEAP is Chapter 12, titled Deploying an Android App. In this…
NativeScript in Action Update
We’re excited to share some important updates to our progress on NativeScript in Action. To start off, we’re nearly finished! We’re working through updates and edits on the last three chapters, and will be releasing MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) updates every couple of weeks. Chapter 11 Released Our second announcement is that chapter 11 has been released to MEAP! Chapter 11, titled Refining…
What NativeScript Means to Mobile Development
What NativeScript Means to Mobile Development Many moons ago we were in the pre-iPhone era. For those of you reading this who remember, we were carrying around our Windows 6 mobile phones and geeking out over the latest Samsung Blackjack. There were fewer platforms and devices back then. Nowadays, new devices come out monthly. The increasingly frequent rate that devices…
js13kgames 2016
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post; not that I haven’t wanted but working on NativeScript in Action has definitely kept me more than busy. In my extra spare time I made sure I was able to participated in js13kgames 2016. js13kgames 2016 If you aren’t familiar with js13kgames it is a yearly competition to create a…