A deep dive into Xamarin and React Native

Track

iOS - 10
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/xamarin/ios/get-started/hello-ios-multiscreen/hello-ios-multiscreen-quickstart?tabs=vsmac

Ruby, RoR - 0.5

React -

Vue - 4
- https://www.vuemastery.com/courses/intro-to-vue-js/vue-instance

Electron - 4
- have to check how notifications are shown (which are notifications and which are just toastr messages; where is notification manager?)
- faye code to show notifications?
- rules engine
- how to submit an Electron app to Windows Store & Mac App Store
  -- can we submit a sample app
- prevent session timeout so that user stays logged-in
--- if user stays logged-in, then things that happen at login time (like Login Interrupts) need to be triggered when user launches app
- can we write code to distinguish whether user is using browser or Electron app ?
- look at Google Analytics for different clients to see usage on Windows and MacOS
- on Macs we can show Notifications that stay on the screen; can we do the same on Windows? 

Xamarin - Visual Studio on Mac

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/installation

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/tools/live-player/index


Xamarin University: https://university.xamarin.com/classes


Xamarin.iOS - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/xamarin/ios/

Above link includes a "Getting Started" section that has "Hello, iOS"(QuickStart & DeepDive) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/xamarin/ios/get-started/hello-ios/

Xamarin Sample Projects - https://www.xamarin.com/prebuilt

Comparison with other technologies - https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/mobile/pros-and-cons-of-xamarin-vs-native/

Xamarin Forms - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-basics/

ActiveRecord: arel

https://jacopretorius.net/2016/09/the-mimimum-arel-every-rails-developer-should-know.html
https://www.calebwoods.com/2015/08/11/advanced-arel-cheat-sheet/
https://github.com/rails/arel
https://medium.com/@zedalaye/build-crazy-queries-with-activerecord-and-arel-e7bd3b606324
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4430578/how-to-do-a-like-query-in-arel-and-rails?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa 

CSS related: getBoundingClientRect, offsetHeight, clientHeight, scrollHeight

getBoundingClientRect - https://johnresig.com/blog/getboundingclientrect-is-awesome/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22675126/what-is-offsetheight-clientheight-scrollheight

http://jsfiddle.net/shibualexis/yVhgM/3/

Mongodb related

1) Export
mongodump
Above command will export everything (all databases) into a folder called 'dump'

2) Import
mongorestore dump

Rails: How to chain scope queries with OR instead of AND?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3684311/rails-how-to-chain-scope-queries-with-or-instead-of-and

Internal Side Projects

I wrote the below comment in reddit.com/r/programming in response to a medium.com post about Hype Driven Development

There is a solution in my opinion: Internal-Side-Projects.

The only way, for a team to choose/decide in an informed manner, is to do some Internal-Side-Projects using the said framework/stack. Internal-side-projects = something non-critical but useful that everyone can work on, and should work on.

At the minimum, all senior-developers in the team/company should do be indulging in this. If we do this, when the time comes to make a decision, the team will actually have meaningful discussions. Sometimes decisions become obvious when people actually know what they are talking about. (The happy side-effect is that developers remain happy as they get to learn new things.)

However, for this to be practically possible, the company's culture should plan for & encourage such internal-side-projects.

This is absolutely essential for a company/team to remain competitive in the long-run.

GDPR related

https://matomo.org/blog/2018/04/how-to-make-matomo-gdpr-compliant-in-12-steps/?pk_campaign=org_newsletter_2018_04&pk_medium=email&pk_source=piwik_org_newsletter

Tick or Tock? Keeping Time and Order in Distributed Databases

https://dzone.com/articles/tick-or-tock-keeping-time-and-order-in-distributed-1

Phoenix Chat for your Rails application

https://medium.com/@korolvs/elixir-beside-rails-2b94414bcb03

Javascript Frameworks: The deepest reason why modern JavaScript frameworks exist

https://medium.com/dailyjs/the-deepest-reason-why-modern-javascript-frameworks-exist-933b86ebc445

AWS related: How To Set Up a Serverless React Application with AWS S3 and CloudFront

https://www.devopsgorilla.com/cloud/aws/how-to-set-up-a-serverless-react-application-with-aws-s3-and-cloudfront/

Processors related: “Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law are dead, Now what?” – a 4-act play by Dr. David Patterson

“Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law are dead, Now what?” – a 4-act play by Dr. David Patterson
https://www.eejournal.com/article/fifty-or-sixty-years-of-processor-developmentfor-this/

From Uber blog

https://eng.uber.com/check-in-queueing/

Anna: A KVS for any scale

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/27/anna-a-kvs-for-any-scale/