Not too much happening on the tech scene, probably also due to summer holidays in. Still, there are a few things that caught my eye. Pokemon Go is setting new usage records, coming up is the Android Indie Games Festival held by Google and Amazon acquired Cloud9 IDE. Pokemon Go – more daily users than Twitter,...
Big clients ask about Liferay vulnerabilities and security exploits. In this post I will explain how to identify and fix these security issues in Liferay 6.0.x. Please note that some of these Liferay exploits and their fixes might apply to newer versions of the Liferay Portal like 6.1.x to even 7.0. I have worked with...
In this short post I will list some proposals for best commercial WordPress coding items published lately on the Envato’s market places. I called it a developer coding treasure chest. I really think that they are very valuable for programmers considering that you can spend 10-50$ and include in projects for hundreds or thousands of dollars....
Android Nougat is delicious Google announced on June 30th that the name of Android 6 N is officially Nougat, in line with the naming tradition using deserts. So, it’s not Nutella and it’s not Namey McNameface like mentioned humorously 2 weeks ago. A lot of people were rooting for Nutella, however probably there would have...
Here are the latest and greatest things that happened this week. Users reported YouTube down for a few hours, Huawei builds its own OS and iPhone registers a few new patents. YouTube down It doesn’t happen too often, actually it hasn’t happened for a really long time, but on June 22nd 2016 YouTube website went down. It...
I’ve started using CouchDB mainly as a database for mobile apps. However I found it useful also as a backend for server side web applications. I’m a beginner with CouchDB and in one of my applications I needed something simple. I wanted all documents except the ones with a certain value for a field. The...
Last week I started a new category on the blog and we looked at what was new tech wise last week. Exciting week this week with the Apple WWDC and a lot of annoucements made by Apple regarding changes to it’s platform, new apps, etc. Also, other interesting things happening on the IT stage, so we’ll...
I use the Ionic Framework on a daily basis both for my day time job and for my personal mobile application projects. I have to say that I really like it. Not only that I like the tool, but I’m very fond of the Ionic Team that has always been very friendly and active when...
In this post I will discuss how to create a simple pie chart using 3 popular libraries: D3, Google charts and Infographic Charts library. I will be looking at the pros and cons for pie chart created with each library. We will try to use the libraries such that the end result looks as similar...
In this post I will show you how to create a so called planetarium CSS solar system. Basically I will use CSS animations to animate a representation of our solar system. Actually I will only represent the movement of the Moon around the Earth, the rotation of the Earth around its own axis and the revolution...