Intro to Mobile App Development Class 2019 Published I published the syllabus, assignments, and weekly slides for my Fall 2019 Intro to Mobile App Development class at the University of Texas. This year, I changed things around from being 4 months of Swift and iOS application development to being a little more well rounded. We did an introduction to Swift, and an introduction… Read More
Quirk with Rails 5.2 Encrypted Secrets and Slack Client IDs for OAuth I’m building a Slack App on top of ZapCircle, so that you can leave status updates from Slack, and also publish them directly from Slack. Part of this is managing flow for OAuth, so you can add the ZapCircle app to your Slack team, and there is a connection. OAuth requires a client ID and… Read More
ZapCircle: Status Updates for Remote Teams I work with a lot of different companies and teams as a remote software developer – sometimes it’s just a handful of us, all in different cities, sometimes everyone is in Austin, but never goes into the office. I work remotely when I write code, and have done so for about six years now. TLDR:… Read More
New version of Twilio Client for PhoneGap/Cordova Released I recently updated the PhoneGap plugin for Twilio Client (a VoIP SDK for iOS and Android) to support Cocoapods. This means that you can use this plugin with automated builds now! cordova plugin add twilio-client-phonegap-plugin Version 1.1.0 is published to npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/twilio-client-phonegap-plugin) See the GitHub repo for more: https://github.com/jefflinwood/twilio_client_phonegap… Read More
Building an API with Visual Studio Code and Node.js At the April Austin Microsoft Developer Meetup, I gave a talk about using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code to build web applications and API’s with Node.js. I also showed everyone how to quickly and easily deploy those Node.js web applications to Microsoft Azure’s App Services. We used both Express and Hapi to build web applications –… Read More