Unofficial BBC News feed reader app created with NativeScript in couple of hours
Last week Jen Looper from Telerik set a challenge to create an unofficial BBC News reader app built with {N}. After reviewing another app built with ReactNative, I was surprised at how unorganized RN code looked. There is an XCode project and also have some JS styles embedded in the JS. Knowing that {N} code […]
The dreaded NativeScript 2.0 Android plugin problem and why it will affect everyone not just plugin developers
UPDATE (04/17/2016): Our prayers have been heard and the {N} team decided to continue support of the current plugin structure with AndroidManifest.xml in the plugin’s platforms folder in addition to the new .aar structure. You can read more about it here. As a {N} plugin developer last week it was brought to my attention that […]
SQL Server 2012
I was at the SQL Server PASS Summit in Seattle last week and one of the big announcements was that SQL Server code name Denali (SQL11) is officially named SQL Server 2012 (scheduled for release early in the year)! Here is the proof: Exciting news, lots of great enhancements to come!
Start Your SQL Engines
S QLRally is only two days away! I am deadlocked here looking at the schedule and trying to make a list of sessions to attend. Such a great line-up of quality content and talented speakers, too bad my concurrency model is not as good as in SQL Server. 🙂 I may have to do some […]
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2011 (CTP1)
SQL Server 2011 (code named Denali) CTP1 was announced in November 2010 during the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle. While a bit disappointing not to see the much anticipated full implementation of the window functions (hope we will still see that in a future CTP version), it offers some interesting new programmability features. These new […]
Defensive Database Programming
Defensive programming is a much avoided topic by developers. Rushing to deliver features is almost always prioritized higher than spending time to defensively program code for robustness. Especially in the database world where this concept is much misunderstood. This is why it was real pleasure to read Alex Kuznetsov’s book "Defensive Database Programming with SQL […]