Published in Vue.js Developers·May 11, 2021Django and Vue3 — Best of Both Frontends, Part 4In the previous articles of this series, I’ve demonstrated a method of integrating Django templates and Vue in such a way that preserves the strengths of both frontend frameworks. Since those articles were published, Vue3 has been released, bringing a variety of improvements and a list of breaking changes. With…Django5 min readDjango5 min read
May 21, 2020Multicolor Transitions in FlutterFlutter’s built-in ColorTween is the standard way to animate a color transition between two colors. With ColorTween we can lerp (linearly interpolate) between two colors along the lifetime of a controller's animation. But how can we smoothly transition between multiple colors? This article discusses three methods, each which may suit…Flutter2 min readFlutter2 min read
Published in Vue.js Developers·Apr 23, 2020Member-onlyDjango + Vue — Blazing Content, Rich InteractivityAlbert Einstein discovered in 1905 the curious phenomenon of the mass deficit, which is that the mass of a molecule is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent atoms. …Vuejs9 min readVuejs9 min read
Published in Vue.js Developers·Dec 4, 2019Vue + Django — Best of Both Frontends, Part 2Continued from Part 1 of this series. See also Part 3 of this series which introduces lazy loading of Vue components for increased performance. In my previous article I demonstrated how to use Vue’s Multi-Page App (MPA) support to embed Vue Single File Components into a Django template, allowing developers…Java Script6 min readJava Script6 min read
Published in Vue.js Developers·May 26, 2019Vue + Django — Best of Both FrontendsDjango and Vue both have unique front-end strengths. Django’s context-driven template views offer rapid development of pages directly from back-end model content. Vue’s modern reactive components provide powerful tools for building complex UIs within the rich Javascript ecosystem. However, typical solutions to integrating Django and Vue forgo much of the…Django8 min readDjango8 min read
Oct 1, 20186 things I learned from my first bike tourOne Christmas, my partner and I suddenly decided we would embark on a new adventure: a bike tour across the breadth of Estonia. We knew almost nothing about bike touring. We didn’t even own bikes. So we educated our minds by reading blogs and listening to podcasts while we prepared…Cycling9 min readCycling9 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Mar 12, 2018Storyboarding Widgets in FlutterWhile developing a React Native app, a tool I found very useful was Storybook, which allows developers to write small isolated “stories” involving widgets. These stories, especially when teamed with a hot deploy mechanism, allows quick iteration of widget design, and also promotes improved reusability and testability of your widgets. …Flutter3 min readFlutter3 min read
Jan 26, 2018Testing Amazon Alexa skills with captured fixturesHello, my name is Mike, and I developed my first Alexa skill without writing any test cases. With that confession out of the way, I will defend my developer honor to some degree: I did perform testing, but it was a clumsy affair using Amazon’s testing support from withing the…AWS Lambda5 min readAWS Lambda5 min read
Feb 13, 2017Developing Angular2 Dart Asset Services, Part 3Continued from Part 2 This article continues an effort to externalize content assets for a fictitious app. In Part 1 and Part 2, we developed an external HTML content repository and an Angular service to retrieve these assets. But our fictive scenario requires that we include not only external HTML…Web Development4 min readWeb Development4 min read
Jan 11, 2017Developing Angular2 Dart Asset Services, Part 2Continued from Part 1 For the fictive scenario described in the previous article, we built a simple content service that would provide randomized lorem ipsum text to our article application. Now our manager tells us the latest news: the content will now be developed in-house by our company’s ad department…Angular 24 min readAngular 24 min read
