Why do businesses prefer to have native apps even though they have fully responsive websites? Native apps load faster, give full-screen experience, have offline capabilities, support push notifications, and significantly add to user convenience. What if your mobile website had all of these benefits? That’s what a Progressive Web App is all about—the rich experience of an app and the full functionality of a website.
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Is the loading speed of your web application extremely important?
Is your web application’s loading time affecting sales?
Is your web application built on Angular 1?
If the answer to all the three questions is “yes,” then this blog post is for you. (more…)
As the microservice buzzword catches up, I believe sooner or later you might think of trying microservices. In this blog post, I shall cover some of the common problems related to routing and load balancing and how to get around them using HAProxy.
How often do you stumble on a new word while reading? If you are like me, you wouldn’t look it up in a dictionary. You will carry on reading as your mind intuitively figures out the meaning. We have to hand it to our brains. Over the course of millennia, the human brain has become adept at many things, including language and object recognition. So even if we don’t know exactly what we are looking at, our brains fill in the gaps by providing a rough interpretation.
What if we could create intelligent machines that could do the same—learn by associating things, just like the human brain? It is a question that has puzzled and driven curious minds for generations. This post takes a look at the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI)—the making of the thinking machine.
Rails developers like me are on a high with the release of Rails 5. Yes, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails) has something really cool for us this time. One of the cool factors in Rails 5 is Action Cable, the framework that integrates WebSocket with Rails. Real-time features on Rails, such as live chat, notifications, interactive online games, and so on are all possible thanks to Action Cable.
Before we go into the tutorial on creating a real-time messaging app using Action Cable, let’s take a quick look at the server-side components of Rails 5.
It was in the 1990s that I was introduced to the idea of virtual reality. The three-dimensional simulated world inhabited by the sci-fi hero Jonny Quest was too amazing a concept for my then 10-year-old self. I used to wonder when I would be able to witness one in real life. The emerging world of virtual, augmented, and mixed realities does look like my childhood dream is coming true.
Gamification is a term that has been tossed around to describe scenarios where game elements placed in tasks engage users and make things less boring. Well, there’s more to it than that. Gamification is often mistaken for game simulations. Game simulations are game-like applications that are built not for entertainment but for learning certain real-world skills. Flight simulators (to learn how to fly) and racing simulators (that racing drivers use to learn the layout of tracks) are some examples. Even though these platforms involve games, these should not be confused with gamification. (more…)
Today, people consume tremendous amount of information on their smartphones. However,
loading websites on our mobile devices is a slow and frustrating experience for many of us. What if there was an option to optimize website content to suit the mobile web? Articles, sites, and blogs would be loaded instantly! (more…)
Technology, the inveterate disruptor, is at it again. Granted, it’s always kicking up dust. But every now and then it coughs up something major, sending a shiver down the industry’s spine. So it is with blockchain, a distributed database.
We live in a time where our lives revolve around a smartphone. No wonder, most vendors–– both public and private––focus their services on mobile apps rather than the web. And a major trend that is catching up in the mobile application market is hybrid application development. Oracle has raised the stakes with Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF), a hybrid mobile architecture.
