Held my 2nd talk @ Zurich Ionic Meetup last Thursday. Just some ‘Quickies’ this time: Ionic 4 Playground: stackblitz.com Bringing back hammerjs in Ionic 4 Pitfalls when building for iOS RxJs -Observable.forkJoin() : Error handling Slides here: Thanks to you awesome guys at the Ionic Meetup. Really, really appreciate to be part of it! Questions? […]
Cryptogram Equations (brute-forcing my demon)
TL;DR My Cryptogram Equation Solver The whole story Just recently: Son: “Daddy, there are some math tasks I need your help with.” Me: “Easy-peasy, bring it on!” Son: “It’s something with letters and numbers…” Me: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” My worst nightmare: Cryptogram equations! I consider myself as a fairly logical thinker but these are the tasks I […]
Push Messages with Ionic and OneSignal
Gave my first talk at the Ionic Zurich Meetup today. Thanks to the guys at the Meetup for the appreciation & feedback!
When ‘hacking’ a lucky draw is just too easy
Warning: the application of the method described in this article is very likely illegal and unethically for sure. The purpose of this article is to show how weakly protected online lucky draws are easy target for exploits, the possible consequences for the company who runs these draws and strategies against this. So kids: don’t do […]
Social Login for mobile apps with Ionic / Cordova + PHP + OAuth + JWT
Recently I’ve started looking into building hybrid mobile apps with Ionic (based on Apache Cordova) and one of the first things I realized was that my existing authentication flow with Facebook & Co. won’t work anymore. My flow for Web-Apps with AngularJS (Frontent) and PHP with HybridAuth (Backend) is like this: The Web-App flow call backend (e.g ../login.php&provider=Facebook) backend […]
Showtime! A timed Angular ‘ng-show’.
For my current project with Angular I want some messages to be shown for a few seconds (e.g. success of password change) but I didn’t want to use ‘Toasts‘ because on non-mobile screens the action and response are somewhat ‘detached’ if the ‘Toast’ appears far away from where the user triggered the action. (Usually ‘Toasts’ appearing at the top, bottom […]
SoapUI & JWT
Quite often when I start using a new tool it takes me hours to get something working which seems to be trivial just to recognize that it IS actually trivial once I get the concept (that’s the moment where I feel like banging my head against a wall). So it happens to me recently with SoapUI and JWT based user […]
Running SoapUI tests from Jenkins
For my private projects I prefer postman for testing REST services because it’s so simple and fast to use but recently I had to have a closer look at SoapUI because this is my only available choice in my current project at work. So I’ve got along with it’s – in my opinion terrible – (Java) UI and the absence of […]