tech/webdev magazine

June 21, 2017

No No No

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Teklinks

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question. And how do you justify something you’ve learnt from experience without making the other person feel that you are overriding their idea just by being more opinionated?

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How To Dictate Text In MS Office With Dictate By Microsoft

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Teklinks

You can use speech recognition in Windows and dictate a document in MS Word, or an email in Outlook. Windows’ dictation feature isn’t the greatest tool for this purpose. MS Office apps don’t have a built-in dictation feature so that’s really all you can use.

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Getting Started With Vue Router

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Teklinks

Vue is already a great Javascript library that allows you to create some really cool, dynamic, front-end applications. Vue is also great for single page applications (SPA). SPAs work a little differently that your standard backend web application built in something like PHP.

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June 20, 2017

A critical analysis of notification systems

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Teklinks

Look at the above picture — to the left is the user’s world: a world where the person’s kids, family, hobbies, work and other things reside. The user’s interaction with this world is the “typical experience” of a human being.

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Deploy an AngularJS Ecommerce App in 4 Steps

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Teklinks

In this blog I will demonstrate how to Install and Deploy an AngularJS Ecommerce Application built using AngularJS, Node.js and Cosmic JS. This Ecommerce Application allows you to process orders from customers and accept Stripe payments for goods and services.

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ReactJS Authentication Tutorial, Part 1

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Teklinks

ReactJS is a JavaScript library, built and maintained by Facebook. It was developed by Jordan Walke, a software engineer at Facebook. It was open-sourced and announced to the developer community in March 2015. Since then, it has undergone tremendous growth and adoption in the developer community.

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