Recently, we have to build an Admin dashboard for an e-commerce application. This involves adding stores, items their photos and other data typically needed for managing the data from admin side for non technical people. Since, we are using rails framework so we had two options that are best suitable as per our need administrate and active admin. The former is very popular recently as it has several advantages over the latter. Unlike active admin you don't have to understand the DSL. It's very flexible and easily customisable. But administrate is still in pre-1.0 version and not very stable

Installation of Umbraco in Visual Studio Introduction to Umbraco: Umbraco is an open source content management system developed using C#. It follows the MVC pattern. - [1] If you know C# and MVC you can easily learn umbraco. ‘U’ offers us following feature for developing and maintaining our website : Full control over design, markup and version control of all contents Ability to schedule content publishing Simple editing and publishing Support for localization Provides workflow and event tracking feature In this blog we will discuss about how to install umbraco using nuget package manager.So, let’s start with installing umbraco:

We all know, Comments are every where Blogs, Social Networking sites, e-learning forums etc. In this article, we've got an Article model and we want to create a nested commenting system onto that. Such that Article can have comments, comments can have replys, replys can have more replys and so on. For example - This is an article This is an comment this is a reply this is a reply's reply .... (so on) This is another comment. Now, we're going to talk about polymorphic associations and what they are and how they can be implemented for nested commenting system. What

In my previous post, we discussed how we were able to sync our files and folders with Google Drive. You can refer the post here - http://kiprosh.com/blog/google-drive-file-upload-pre-generated-file-id-for-uploads. Once we were done with the sync setup - next step is to ensure sync was accurate and timely i.e changes made in our application are accessed instantly in Google and more important changes made in Google are available in our application. We needed this without an impact on the performance - without polling Google to find out updates and nor writing any custom logic comparing timestamps to

As we all know uploading the iOS App on the App Store is a very long procedure. Some developer gets stuck at the certain point and fails to upload the app. So let's make the procedure very short of uploading the app with Fastlane Tool. Fastlane provides the easiest way to build and release the mobile apps. It handles the time-consuming task for you, so you don't have to waste your development time. Through Fastlane you can automate the process of taking the screenshot of the mobile app screen, building the app for the different environment such as Adhoc, Development,

This is a one of the part of some of articles I wanted to publish for the things I learned or had less of web content when we were integrating a feature for Google Drive Folder Sync. Basic goal was to connect a Google Drive Folder and upload files from our app to Google and vice-versa. In this article we want to focus mainly on the uploads from our application. Why do we need the Pre Generated Id for Files? We are using Google Drive API V3 for this feature - https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/about-sdk. The

What is Auto Layout? Auto Layout is a constraint-based layout system. It was introduced with Xcode 6 Beta. It allows developer to create an adaptive UI for the apps that responds appropriately to changes in screen size and device orientation. Auto Layout dynamically calculates the dimensions and position of all the views in your view hierarchy, based on constraints placed on those views. Why Auto Layout? Today we have lots of variants available of iPhone and iPad in size in market. So, the user have different iPhone or iPad as per their choice. But according to the developer when he

Ecto’s query syntax does not cater to all types of database queries. fragment is useful to inject custom SQL for composing queries. Lets take a very simple example to lowercase a target column while comparing a string in where clause in our SQL query. We can usefragmentto inject custom SQL into our query. email = "test@hello.com" query = from u in User, where: fragment("lower(?)", u.email) == ^email, select: u.email Repo.all query In the example above, we have used lower using fragment to lowercase (i.e. downcase) the email column. This will generate

There are many ways you can style react component you can use are Inline CSS and there are many React Libraries like typestyle which is good but there have some other flaws in it like it forces you to write CSS in javascript object means if you want to write CSS as background-color:red you would have to write as backgroundColor:'red' like this which seems very weird but if you use styled component is very simple and also it allows use style react in plain CSS First, we gonna create new project by using create-react-app CL which allows us

Apple released most interesting feature Facial recognition with iPhone X. Face ID is a new revolution in recognition. It is a powerful and secure authentication system that’s more convenient, faster and easy than Touch ID. Face ID is biometric authentication. Biometrics technology is mainly used for identification and access control. Touch ID recognition is also biometric authentication. Face ID uses LocalAuthentication Framework for authentication and Touch ID uses the same framework for authentication. This framework provides facilities for requesting authentication from users. It provides the interface for evaluating authentication policies and access controls and managing credentials with LAContext. LAContext