Category: iPhone app

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuild a CRUD App with ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core

One advantage I see using dotnet core is for .Net shops the transition is relatively smooth in terms of skill set. Second advantage is it’s cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux): so in away it’s get the same cross platform capability as Java (Spring etc)

also
.NET for Java developers

Migrate your .NET app to Azure

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlexa

Alexa Account Linking: 5 Steps to Seamlessly Link Your Alexa Skill to User Systems That Require Authentication (Sebastien Stormacq, done)

User Account Linking in Alexa with ASP.NET Web API (Heather Downing, Okta)

Linking Your Alexa Skill Securely with Okta (Jefferson Haw, Okta)

Account Linking : Amazon Alexa and ForgeRock OpenAM using OAuth2 Authorization grant (karthik, Medium)

How to set up Account Linking for Alexa with Auth0 and Jovo (Kaan Kilic, Jovo)

Build an Alexa Skill in Node.js with Jovo (Jan Konig, Jovo, done) : If a user responds with a name, the MyNameIsIntent is triggered. The code is shown below in index.js

Webhook.listen(port, () => {
console.info(`Local server listening on port ${port}.`);
});

Webhook.post(‘/webhook’, async (req, res) => {
await app.handle(new ExpressJS(req, res));
});

also, how to test the code in AWS Lamda…Click “Test” right next to the “Save” button and select “Alexa Start Session” as the event template…

Interaction-Based Authentication for Alexa Skills with Auth0 (Joao Angelo, Auth0)

Developing Alexa Skills Locally with Node.js: Account Linking Using OAuth (Juan Pablo Claude)

The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code.

JavaScript
Node.js based testing (npm test)

jasmine official website

commonly used commands:
npm install –save-dev jasmine
npm init
npm test

Sample project can be seen here: (please contact me if the repository is private)

Also
Learn JavaScript in 2019 (David Neal)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the code that works (my code):

Junit test code is here.

I will add some ReadME as time permits. This is not as straightforward as it sounds. I didn’t get it working initially after spending hours on it 🙁

Reading Time: < 1 minuteH2 Database – Installation

H2 Database – JDBC Connection (the only differs from the docs is we need to add “mem” before the “:~/test”. Otherwise it gives me error.

Mixed mode

Another Java H2 tutorial

Last but not least, how much time should a coding test be? I feel couple hours are probably the way to go (think of Filtered AI, Hacker Rank etc). The other approach is more like open-ended projects: those could take from a few hours to a few days 🙁 In some cases I was suspecting the hiring companies could use this opportunity to get some real work done (if they ask for source code 🙂

Something to keep in mind when doing code test.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteApache flink
SE-Radio Episode 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming Architecture;
Software Engineering Daily Apache Flink with Stephan Ewen – Nov 2015; Spark and Streaming with Matei Zaharia – Feb 2018

AWS Streaming data

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDB deployment (schema or DDL, package)
Continuous integration and deployment of database is a main issue for many legacy monolithic web app. I came across this article recently, and I think it touched some good points.

On a related matter, Jeff Atwood (cofounder of stack overflow), has a good piece on database version control.

I understand the world is going microservice, and the monolithic relational database is not used as frequently as it’s being used in those legacy web apps. But nonetheless, it helps the dev team to be agile if version control / CI / CD can be applied to database update as well as the application update.

Tracking data changes in DB
This also reminds me of an app I worked in 2010/11, in which we have an DB audit log for many (if not most) database changes: add, update, delete. It’s usually achieved via trigger in Oracle, or interceptor in Java. I read an article from a startup engineering blog (credit karma? Or something like this), they detailed how this is implemented.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOr companies that allows or encourages remoting.

Zapier (Emily Irish) The Remote Work Survival Guide: 9 Do’s & Don’ts Every Remote Worker Needs to Know

stackoverflow remote dev jobs:
e.g., MobyMax: this is very interesting because I learned about Mobymax because my daughter’s school has the subscription.

Top 30 Companies for Work-from-Anywhere Remote Jobs in the U.S.

Work From Home 2018: The Top 100 Companies For Remote Jobs

Last but not least, LinkedIn has the top startup list for 2017 and 2018. Note many startup like people to work onsite for more communication but there are some exceptions (InVision for one).

Reading Time: < 1 minute(Update 2 09-30-2020) Webhooks — The Definitive Guide [2019]

Other Useful Tools For Debugging/Testing Webhooks

A modern request bin to inspect any event

(Update 03-21-2019) Add the Power of Webhooks to Your App with Okta’s System Log (Joël Franusic at Okta).

(Original 12-28-2008)
Webhooks
I heard webhooks from Zapier the first. Below is an good article written by the folks at Zapier.
What are the webhooks? (Zapier)

Was trying to follow the tutorial from the above
requestbin tool

requestbin works like described (encountered a few 500 errors, but mostly working)

It seems I could not open the hurl.it link from runscope community page.

I am reading this more technical webhooks blog by @brandur

My interest in webhooks is also inspired by this little JS program I wrote a long time ago. And this was rekindled recently due to the atomist-sdm (GitHub) (node.JS based SDM, automation, quick start here).

Reading Time: < 1 minute(Original 11-30-2014, to be worked on)

I heard about Node js for a while, until recently I had opportunity to practice it. I used this tutorial from raywenderlich.com as a start, as I had good experience using the iOS tutorial on ray’s site. But I need to learn more. Here is another one (similar to Ray’s tutorial).

http://nodeguide.com/beginner.html (update 03-07-2019: it seems the site is no longer available)

How do I start with Node.js after I installed it?

Webtask (Auth0)
https://webtask.io/make (for me I used GitHub as SSO login)

If This Then Node.js

more about auth0 vs okta

JavaScript
http://eloquentjavascript.net/03_functions.html

Atomist: a SDM based on Node.js (SDM stands for Software Delivery Machine)
https://docs.atomist.com/quick-start/

I was also following the first few lessons of the advent of atomist automations. Got a bit stuck at the SDM team mode. Local mode seems working fine. I did receive the free trial for Atomist. Maybe I need to update the package as I downloaded Atomist a while ago (in August, I think).