The central enemy of reliability is complexity.
― Geer et al., 2003
First marathon at risk: One month to go
In my last post I told myself “not to overdo” it. Sadly exactly this happened. I have lots of trouble with shin splints (medial). 🙁 What happened? The last long run, which went well was on 19th August. Previously I was running over 30km multiple times on the weekend. Obviously this was too much. I […]
AngularJS: Send auth token with every request
AngularJS is an awesome javascript framework. With it’s $resource service it is super fast and easy to connect your javascript client to a RESTful API. It comes with some good defaults to create a CRUD interface. However if you are using an API, which needs authentication via an auth token, you might run into issues: […]
CORS API with OAuth2 authentication using Rails and AngularJS
Introduction For my latest project PomodoroEasy I wanted as much decoupling of the web client and the server as possible. So the server only provides a RESTful JSON API to feed the client. All the templating, views and business logic are done clientside. Furthermore I wanted them to be provided on different servers and domains. […]
PomodoroEasy: Prelaunch access to the upcoming Pomodoro app
If you stumbled across my article series about how to build a webapp, you already know: I am working on an app to bring the awesome Pomodoro Technique to life on your machines. The Pomodoro Technique is a great, hassle free way to boost you productivity. The main goal is to focus on your tasks […]
Rule the bash: How to edit CLI input with VIM
Sometimes we have to write quite long shell commands, right? And from time to time you have an error in there or want to change a command from the history to do something else, right? If you are a vim user you probably hate to navigate with the cursor keys to the position in the […]
HowTo build a webapp: Document the domain model
In the previous article we did define a vision and the key features for a MVP of our app. Now we will discover the domain of our app and get a model of it. Such a domain model is a conceptual model of the entities and their relationships relevant for you app. Why you should […]
HowTo build a WebApp: Define what the app will do
This is the second part of this Tutorial series. The first article can be found here: How to build a WebApp: Strategic Planning If you are familiar with agile methodologies you may want to avoid a lot of documentation. In general I think this is a good approach. But it does not mean, that you […]
HowTo build a WebApp: Strategic Planning
Intro Hi and welcome to the first article in this series. I will cover the whole process of building a modern Webapp. We will start with an initial planning (covered in this article) and finish with the public deployment of the app. I will rather focus on the development process than on implementation. There are […]