Many publishers have developed mobile apps that deliver a better user experience than their mobile websites. Getting people to use your app instead of your mobile website can increase user engagement with your publication. Using different deep linking techniques to link to content within your app is one way of
There is no doubting the power of push notifications to generate instant spikes in traffic to your app. Push notifications have proven to increase user engagement and loyalty to a publication. It can help with conversions and customer retention and they can simply remind the user of how great your
Keyword of the day: Variety So this is my first time at Javazone. I had high expectations from everything I’ve heard about it, but I did not expect death metal for the opening show at 08:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qifObSLGHW0
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. This simple, yet profound quote from the late American novelist Thomas Berger illustrates the power of questions – questions can make the invisible visible and the unknown known. Just as a coin has two sides, questions and
Web Components is a new set of HTML5 definitions that is currently only partially supported in the latest browsers. This article intends only to glance at the technology hoping that you might get a little insight into one of the biggest evolutional steps of future HTML development.
Apple introduced Newsstand in iOS5 as a single location for users to gather all their magazine and newspaper app subscriptions. From the users perspective its a type of folder where all their news/magazine periodicals (that support Newsstand) are located. There is also a link to the Newsstand section of the
Since Centos7 was released in July, a “nondesktop” distro(other than rhel7 ofc) is using systemd. Like it, hate it or discuss it, systemd is here to stay. As we have been discussing internally how to manage startup of nodejs apps, using monit/pm2/others has been alternatives, and now, imho, systemd is
One of the things I remember the most from my first year at design school back in 2002 is the phrase “less is more”. The words originally came from architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the early 20th century, and is the unofficial mission statement for the “minimalist” design
If you have a node.js project that you want to have tested using Travis-CI, you may run in to a problem if you want to support node <= 0.8. The reason for this is the new caret operator, which was introduced in node-semver. This module is used by npm to
It is becoming more and more challenging to test apps and websites on different devices, with different screen sizes, running different operating systems and with multiple browsers installed. How can you guarantee that your website or app works on every device and on every browser? Nothing beats testing on the
As mentioned in one of the previous blog posts, two of the guys from development @ VG went to The Gathering last week. Together with Prisjakt and Level Up they had a booth there to get in touch with the young and bright geek minds. With them to Vikingskipet they brought
In this post we will cover some JavaScript basics with focus on areas experienced JavaScripters take for granted; but beginners sometimes struggle with.. If you fall somewhere in between then maybe this post will teach you something new!
