all posts tagged with: javascript

Adding a new build notification to an Ember application

Continuous deployment of your Ember app is great; users with stale builds isn’t as great. Let’s take a look at building a new build notification using a service worker.

Progressive Ember - Service Worker

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Adding a service worker

Progressive Ember - Lazy Locales

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Lazy Locales

Progressive Ember - Showdown

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Remove Showdown

Progressive Ember - Moment Timezones

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Moment Timezones

Progressive Ember - Random Lodash

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Random Lodash

Progressive Ember - Include Web Fonts

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Bundle web fonts and preload

Progressive Ember - Remove Liquid Fire

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part three: Removing liquid-fire

Progressive Ember - Web Manifest

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part two: Adding a web manifest

Progressive Ember

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Progressive Ember - Baseline

A walk through the real effort to transition an enterprise level Ember application to a progressive web application.

Part one: The baseline, aka you can’t improve on what you can’t measure

A Step by Step Jekyll Blog to Progressive Web App Guide

In recent years, web technologies have started to catch up to mobile devices in terms of offering a first-class mobile experience. Here’s a step by step guide in the effort required to migrate my personal website to a progressive web application (PWA).

Coffeebot

The coffee situation in a crowded office can be difficult. If you don’t get the jump on a fresh pot of coffee, you might miss out entirely. Enter coffeebot.

Danger Brewing: The JavaScript Powered Kegerator - Build Overview

This is part two of three in a story about a completely unnecessary, over-engineered appliance that dispenses beer, has its own web application and reports data in real-time.

Danger Brewing: The JavaScript Powered Kegerator - Tech Overview

This is part three of three in a story about a completely unnecessary, over-engineered appliance that dispenses beer, has its own web application and reports data in real-time.

Danger Brewing: The JavaScript Powered Kegerator

This is a story about a completely unnecessary, over-engineered appliance that dispenses beer, has its own web application and reports data in real-time.

Write Better Ember Tests

If you’re not testing your code, well, you’ve got some nerve. For the rest of us rational people, let’s look at some basic tips for writing better Ember tests.

Ember Theming

Theming a web application typically involves swapping out stylesheets or moving CSS classes around. But what if you have a single page application? It’s a little tricky, but EmberJS and SASS make it incredibly easy.

Ember: Get More Done

Ember often gets lost amidst talks of other frameworks and tools like Angular, React, etc. and I think that’s incredibly unfortunate. Because of Ember, I’m the most productive I have been in years and building some of the best software I have ever written. It’s not that Ember is fundamentally better than other frameworks (but it is…), it’s that Ember makes decisions for me, it makes my workflow far less complicated, levels the playing field and gives me more time to spend building awesome software.

Ember and Firebase: Go Where Eagles Dare

At a recent EmberJS Philly meetup, Brendan O’Hara (@BrendanOHara) gave a great overview of Ember and Firebase (via EmberFire).

Why Ember is the Cat's Pajamas

If you have recently blinked, it’s likely that you have missed the plethora of web development tools, frameworks, etc. There is one in particular that has my full attention however, Ember.

Building a MEAN Pi

If JavaScript isn’t your thing, turn back now because we’re going to be implementing the MEAN stack on a Raspberry Pi. The MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and NodeJS) is a web stack based entirely in JavaScript.