Tony is a Geek

I've been meaning to upload this for a while now.  Today, I'll finally get around to it, mainly for my own reference, but also to possibly help other people out. The scenario: 1) You are asked to make a demo application... 2) ...in as short a time as possible... 3) ...in a pressured environment... 4) ...did I mention "they" want it all finished 2hours before you even started You get the picture.  Nowadays, just because we have Design thinking and wonderful ways of quizzing a business user on how they feel and what they want a Mobile application to do and using all the Agile techniques you can throw at a buzzword bingo board, it still comes down to the basic element.  A coder, then has to code something and writing code takes time. I totally agree that making a prototype / mockup / wireframe app can be simple / easy / quick, but making a "real" application is not so, as there is so much more that you have to construct. Now, in previous coder w...

Here's a great article from Ray: Working with Ionic, Box, and IBM MobileFirst Summary = Box is a cloud storage provider much like Dropbox, but also provides some pretty cool workflow services as well.  While it is still early, you'll soon see some interesting collaborations between IBM and Box.  Ray, sets out to see how easy it would be to integrate Box into a Hybrid Mobile application using both Ionic and IBM MobileFirst. Check the article out , it includes a Video too:

Official IBM press-release Ionic press-release Yes, yes, yes..... this is several weeks late.  What can I say, I've been "busy"  :-) The good news is, IBM has this product called IBM MobileFirst (I may have posted a thing or two about it?!) that helps support making, managing and securing the back-end services of your Mobile applications.....and Ionic Creator is just an awesome front-end product for building the Mobile application itself. Officially putting these two things together is great news (I've been doing it un-officially for quite some time, so it's great that it's now official news).

A quick sample video on React Native integrated with the MobileFirst Platform Foundation