5 Reasons Why You Should Blog as a Software Developer

Blogging has become way more than a little hobby. Blogging offers great possibilities you can find nowhere else. Especially in the software development area it’s pretty hard to stand out given the amount of great developers around the world. In this post I will share my experience on blogging and how your life and job […]

RESTful API User Authentication with Node.js and AngularJS – Part 2/2: Frontend App

In this second part of our User Authentication series I will show you how to hook up a frontend to our REST API backend. We will craft a little Ionic app with AngularJS, but the code and concept is almost the same for a pure AngularJS webapp.

RESTful API User Authentication with Node.js and AngularJS - Part 1/2: Server

My all time most viewed article is How To Handle User Authentication With AngularJS Inside Your Ionic App, and it’s also the one with the most questions. User authentication is one of the features almost every app(web and mobile) needs today. In this series I will show you my best practice for creating a RESTful […]

Real iOS Push Notifications with Ionic Push

I got a lot of requests on a tutorial showing how to use the Ionic.io Push notification service in a real example. Today I will finally show you how fast it can be to integrate iOS push notifications inside your Ionic Framework app!

How To Easily Use The Twitter REST Api With AngularJS

The Twitter REST Api is quite well documented, still there are many problems how to to call the routes, how to authenticate and in general how to use it. I wanted to simplify the Twitter integration, so I created a AngularJS library acting as a wrapper: ngTwitter.

How To Create An Advanced Ionic Gallery with Image Zooming

Presenting images in whatever form you like is a standard job inside an app. If you want to create an image gallery, things get a bit tougher. Additional, if you want image zooming inside your standard gallery view, your head might explode without the proper knowledge. Let me present you an easy way how to […]

Easy Ionic Push Notifications With Ionic.io In 15 Minutes

Everyone uses push notifications. Not you? Well, you are lucky as Ionic helps us to include push notifications in our hybrid apps in absolutely no time. Follow my tutorial to include Ionic push notifications as fast and easy as possible! You will be surprised how fast it is.

The Complete Guide To Images With Ionic

It can be a bit challenging and frustrating to handle local file URLs when working with images or media files in your app. In one of my articles I described how to capture and store images with Ionic, but there have been a lot of questions regarding saving and accessing those files later. Additional,

AngularJS User Authentication Inside Your Ionic App

Implementing a login and user authentication system for your AngularJS app seems to be one of the hardest problems people encounter. My article on a simple login with Ionic and AngularJS is the far most viewed article on this blog, every day! As the mentioned article only describes a basic system for a very low […]

Adding Frosted Glass Effect to your Ionic Framework App

The frosted glass effect is a smart way to have an overlay above your content while still seeing that there is something in the background. If you are an iOS user, you will have noticed this effect in places like when you pull down your notifications.