If you host an Angular Progressive Web App (PWA) on a web server, you will frequently have URLs that are handled by the Angular router to navigate to specific pages within the app.
However, without the service worker registered, navigation requests are not intercepted and sent to the PWA. In other words, if a user has never ran the PWA yet in his or her browser, a… Read more
If you’re looking for an alternative to Meetup (meetup.com) where you don’t have to pay a hefty monthly or semi-annual fee just to host events for groups over 50 members, refer your group to Casual Events!
Casual Events is a new platform that needs your help to grow. Since it is maintained by one person (me) you don’t have to subsidize congl… Read more
In light of the recent showcasing of Alphabet’s political partisanship (a search engine I will not name directly to avoid getting unfairly punished more via their corrupt ranking “algorithms”), and the overall collusion of big tech companies siding with radical, communist ideologues, this post is just a reminder of all the alternat… Read more
I have released a new app called Casual Events. Check it out here.
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Of all the degeneracy and anti-social behaviour that social media has wrought, Meetup, while not strictly “social media”, is probably one of the more “social” things to emerge from the Internet. Certainly more social than say Facebook or T… Read more
Before I even updated my Lotto Max Calculator with the new payouts, I knew right away the OLG wanted to accomplish two things with their changes to Lotto Max:
I don’t know who the original author of this image is so I don’t know who to give credit, but in my opinion the creator has succinctly and accurately pinpointed the acceleration of degeneracy in today’s social media driven world:
Perhaps gluttony would more accurately be represented by Amazon — a symbol of unrestrained consumerism an… Read more
There’s no straightforward way yet in getting the parent component of a component via dependency injection without knowing the type of the parent component. This poses a problem if you want your component consumed by many different types of parent components.
A common scenario where this problem occurs is an Ionic 4 app with several pages that use so… Read more
With the termination of Zoho free tier access to POP/IMAP/Activesync services, choices for simple, free inboxes and an outgoing SMTP server for your domain have become virtually non-existent.
A common scenario when hosting a small-scale web service under a domain is to handle registrations by sending out automated mails via the free out… Read more
For Angular 2/3/4/5/6/7 developers, use this gadget to translate your en.json file.
This is relevant for developers that use @ngx-translate/core similar to the following in app.module:
import { TranslateModule, TranslateLoader } from '@ngx-translate/core';
@NgModule({
/* ... */
imports: [
TranslateModule.forRoot({
loader: {
provide: Translat… Read more
Since documentation and StackOverflow answers are currently sparse for Ionic 4, this tip may hopefully help you save a lot of time debugging if you are transitioning a project from Ionic 3 to Ionic 4.
If you discover one of your components is missing the “hydrated” class, a class programmatically applied to Ionic 4 components at run-time (your … Read more