#offline-first

Building Offline-First Apps: Node.js and SQLite

“Offline first” is an application development paradigm in which developers ensure that an app’s functionality is unaffected by a temporary loss of network connectivity. Progressive web applications, which feel like native applications but run like web applications, are often built on this paradigm. This tutorial will teach you how to build an offline-first application with Node.js and a SQLite…

TPDP Episode #4: What is All This Mobile First, Offline First, and API First Jargon?

There are a lot of “first” approaches circulating in the development and design space at the moment, but what does all this jargon mean?  In this episode of the Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker William Hoang and I are going to explore some of the common practices such as mobile first, offline first, and API first.  I’ve broken Episode #4: What is All This Mobile First, Offline, First,…

We were invited to speak at the Codemotion in Milan from November 20th through 21st on offline-enablement in web applications, particularly in a web application built with OpenUI5. On the conference, there were all in all 1840 attendees on the two days, and 8 to 9 parallel tracks of sessions.  Christiane Kurz delivered the talk on Friday which was very well-attended, there were around 90 people in the audience listening and asking questions. Slides from the session can be found on slideshare here: Presentation on Slideshare

We'd like to thank the organizers of Codemotion, the conference was a great mixture of all kinds of interesting development topics, great speakers and an awesome athmosphere!

Upcoming Presentation: Phoenix Mobile Festival

In case I’m in your part of the world, I’ll be giving a talk at the Phoenix Mobile Festival in Phoenix, Arizona on September 19th, 2015.  I encourage you to attend or at least swing by and say hello.

The title of my talk is Building Offline First Mobile Applications and the abstract is as follows:

[well type=”well-sm”] What happens when your mobile device does not have a network connection?  That…